I'm just using this thread to organize polls related to the ideas suggested in this thread. By all means, feel free to continue posting your ideas there, but any feedback on the current poll topic here would greatly be appreciated!
The current polls is if users want badges to be kept user-based or pet-based, or both. Both is possible, it'd just take us a little longer to work it all out and get the project on its feet.
Additionally, I have enabled re-voting, in case anyone posting sways your opinion from one side to the other.