[bigodanktime]

Many conferences are starting to adopt a badge system and will evaluate your artifact. And this is becoming more and more popular, and I know many researchers that will keep these badges in mind when reading the evaluation in the paper. For example here is the artifact evaluation that was done at SOSP 2021 https://sysartifacts.github.io/sosp2021/results.html.

[hannob]

These badges are kinda controversial. The message they send out is "we give you an extra goodie if you do proper science, because we don't expect that to be the default".

Thus badges can become a kinda excuse for not fixing stuff by default.