I know a lot of us on here see the badges as superfluous, and many of them are. But getting them can be fun, and some of them grant interesting abilities to use as you interact with the forums. I recently realized I lost my regular status even though I became a Regular months ago (maybe even a year or more at this point). I don't know how to get it back, though it's not that big of a deal. I just liked to be able to put topics in the correct categories. Idk, I liked being a regular and I kinda wanted to know how to get that badge again. Maybe I lost because I haven't been posting recently, but that seems like an unfair reason to lose that badge.