[drivingmenuts]

How would you objectively determine the usefulness of a commit message, though? While it might contain all the necessary parts, there is no way to determine if the sum of the parts adds up to a useful whole.

Also, badges are done to death. Everyone's got badges these days - so much so they're like ads. Personally, I've developed a blind spot to most of them.

[arkitaip]

Objectivity is irrelevant and impossible in this context of raising awareness and fun. If the mechanism was something as simple as an upvote next to the commit message, you would let the community define usefulness of the commit message.

[andrewflnr]

Upvoting itself might be all you need.