As you might have heard badges were released with a BLAST. Today badges got even better. We started showing badges next to avatars on posts, comments and replies! 
This makes badges even more powerful when differentiating the members of your community that deserve recognition!

Badges are another way to motivate and engage your community to continue interacting with your forum. They also make your forum look more exciting.
 You can award members for being the best or doing the most of something, or use them to give thanks and signal a member's positive participation in a community.
 Forum Admins can assign badges to members in 2 ways: 1. From your Dashboard > Customer Management > Site Members 2. From your Live Site > Member Profile > Three dots on a member > Assign Badges
 For other related questions head to: https://support.wix.com/en/site-members/creating-member-badges 
 Don’t wait. Let a forum member know that their involvement in your forum is appreciated by sharing a status symbol - give them a badge!