Ciaran
Senior Moderator
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I don't know that they must, but I am not aware of any where they didn't.
The way I worked the badges was awarding the participant badges first, then if someone else was the artist of the image I checked if the artist had a profile here and if they did I gave them a badge.
So I didn't award any badges for anyone who doesn't have a profile here.
I'll ask next time I'm in mod chat to see if anyone else has ever handled anything like this, or what the best way to handle this is, but given that no one but me replied to your original question I suspect that you are an edge case we haven't encountered before.
I don't know that they must, but I am not aware of any where they didn't.
The way I worked the badges was awarding the participant badges first, then if someone else was the artist of the image I checked if the artist had a profile here and if they did I gave them a badge.
So I didn't award any badges for anyone who doesn't have a profile here.
I'll ask next time I'm in mod chat to see if anyone else has ever handled anything like this, or what the best way to handle this is, but given that no one but me replied to your original question I suspect that you are an edge case we haven't encountered before.