Good idea WR2. I got mine 9-16-2010.
Amuffin, i think they rolled out the badge system before everything was fully functional for all mirrors, in the thread i linked above you will notice joe said the feature wasn't quite ready for everyone to be able to use yet since it was still in french, i think that happened with both call for comments and tutorials. It would be nice to have a better tutorial system in place but stickied guides work reasonably well.