I missed out on a badge because I only processed one workunit for it, and didn't do enough work for a gold for another. Badges were announced after-the-fact for dead projects. Since this "badge-for-a-year" talk comes up now and then, I think I'll do a year's work for everything I can, in the meantime, so as not to miss out.

Or many...

Diamond and other kind of new badge level was suggested many times before. Will be great if WCG provide a status about what are in consideration to change in this subject.

About the missed badges or badge levels in projects that was ran in the past UD times, and which used to have just a little bit of WU's distributed, like projects HCMD, GC and HDC, which by far are in the few WU's project compared with other regular ones (exception will continue be AFC, that have a distinct approach), I ever try think in a way to suggested something that make sense to change it, but until now I don't have much more points to coment on that.

For sure, if all old active crunchers to know the badge rules before it be launched in WCG, or at least since at begining of WCG, the scenario for badges awarded in this specific 3 projects will be very very different today. But badges was launched many time before it, and I believe that the decision about rules to get it was based on a reasonable criterias at that times.

Past levels at which badges were attained will not be changed, nor will new arrivals be met with higher requirements for the same metals. If you look in the sidebar of the forums, all gold for all members are equal, with the sole exception of ACAH as per the Help information.

There is no way that WCG would change the levels needed for the current badge set. We hope only to have them add new badges for higher levels, since there are people with more than one machine too.