http://community.arduboy.com/badges/17/reader
now ive read 2 threads today with well over 100 replies, yet i dont have this badge… why?
beginning to end
Reading a thread means that you’ve read every post in the thread, not just a few of them. The forum knows how to tell if you’ve read every post. 
I don’t pay too much attention to badges on this site, but I do know that the best badges are awarded for really, really helpful or really, really thought-out responses.
For instance, this is one of my first posts on this site and it got a lot of attention because it was helpful to the person running the thread and others who may be browsing the thread:
http://community.arduboy.com/t/wip-arduventure-rpg/505/111?u=crait
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@crait’s right, most people don’t care about the badges. This is certainly the first time I’ve actually seen anyone bring attention to them.
I notice that most of those reader badges were handed out in May and June last year, so most of those people probably got hooked on a particularly interesting topic or had been present every time a particular thread was added to, so rather than reading all 100 entries at once they did it in a certain number of days.
Besides which all it does is prove that someone is patient enough to read that many replies (hence I’m not there :P).
bull i read EVERY POST top to bottom, i even read extra slow so they wouldnt think i was skimming 
i know they dont matter
and apparently the badge distributor was lazy and just now game me my stinking badge 
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