The Problem with badges, Farmville-dollars (or whatever they are called) and similar things is that they are unreal things in an unreal world. Unless there's an

The Problem with badges, Farmville-dollars (or whatever they are called) and similar things is that they are unreal things in an unreal world. Unless there's anything useful that can be done with it (say, like with StackOverflow-Karma that may help to connect people to open source projects or get a new job), I wouldn't bother.