# Where's my badge? 📛

**URL:** <https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173>\
**Category:** Watercooler\
**Tags:** celebration, milestone, forum, tips-and-tricks, forum-feedback\
**Created:** [May 4, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173 "2024-05-04T18:45:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/81 "2024-09-08T20:27:40Z")

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Don’t think I didn’t consider that! I’m sure you’re firmly among the crapload of awardees. 😉

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**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/82 "2024-09-11T16:49:15Z")

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[American Red Cross](https://www.redcrossblood.org/) e-mailed me this “special digital badge”:

 ![American Red Cross Plasma/Platelet Donation Badge 125](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/0/2/021e7a70609336fbb2a1301fd44473d62c4167d7.gif "American Red Cross Plasma/Platelet Donation Badge 125")

While I don’t even really care about the badge itself, and [I like being silly about other badges here in the Forum](https://forums.wyze.com/t/how-to-get-the-wyze-nightlight-badge/309850/5), I’m dropping it here just because it gives me another opportunity to promote blood and blood products donation. 🩸

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**Author:** ![carverofchoice](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/carverofchoice/32/107068_2.png) [@carverofchoice](https://forums.wyze.com/u/carverofchoice)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/83 "2024-09-11T22:22:48Z")

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I support all that.

But I hate giving blood/plasma myself. It seems I get sick, etc if I do. Especially since I was hypo-glycemic (I used to have to eat constantly or get low blood sugar sickness that lasted for a day… Though that went away recently when my metabolism dropped in my 40’s).

I used to have a great excuse not to feel guilty about not giving blood though.

They used to not even ALLOW me to give blood/plasma because I’ve been to Haiti before. They told me I’d be banned for life because of that. So I had a great excuse to clear my own conscience. Then I heard they dropped the rule to just banned for 10 years. Then I heard they got rid of the rule entirely. Now my favorite excuses are gone.

So now all my good excuses to myself are gone. My metabolism sucks now that I’m in my 40s and they no longer care that I lived in Haiti. I’m just a… ~~{appropriate word censored for community guidelines}~~ wimp. I remember how bad it was for me trying to do it in the past, and still avoid it now when I have no more restrictions… But I really respect and support other people doing it. I guess if we had a critical emergency and desperate urgent demand above normal I’d go do it again.

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**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/84 "2024-09-11T23:07:55Z")

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I used to just do whole blood, which is fairly quick and easy—just hook up and bleed into a bag—and can be done every 56 days.

Then I got into a habit of doing “Power Red”, where they hook you up to an apheresis machine, withdraw some quantity of whole blood, process it through the machine to separate components, then return most of the plasma and other stuff while retaining the concentrated red cells. In my experience, this usually takes a couple of complete cycles and part of a third, and then they end up with a double-unit of concentrated red cells. After that, you have to wait 112 days to do it again.

These days I mostly do double-needle platelets, so I’m going in every two weeks and getting a needle in each arm, then watching movies or TV or listening to podcasts for a couple of hours with my arms straight. Whole blood is withdrawn through one needle, processed by an apheresis machine, and then returned sans platelets with most of my other blood products plus some IV fluid. Using two needles allows for continuous apheresis during the donation, and they usually get 2-3 units of platelets, plus every few donations they also keep a unit of plasma. It’s possible to go back sooner than two weeks, but I like the regularity of this schedule.

I understand that not everyone is able to do this for various reasons, and I’m not trying to do any sort of self promotion because of it. I like that I’m able to help others by giving stuff that I’m making anyway (without any special effort on my part), even if the donor center canteen is no longer staffed with old lady volunteers serving sloppy joes: “Do you want pickles?” 🍔🙃

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**Author:** ![carverofchoice](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/carverofchoice/32/107068_2.png) [@carverofchoice](https://forums.wyze.com/u/carverofchoice)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/85 "2024-09-12T00:44:29Z")

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![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/f/4/f42fcd7f59a2dfb40f2b27b78f85610fa1b38850.gif "Heroes Thor GIF - Heroes Thor - Discover & Share GIFs")

I know lots of people do it for money too, and I still respect that a lot.

Lots of my female friends in college donated plasma for money too help fund their needs. One of them still does it even though her household makes a lot of money now. I’m totally good with that since it’s a win-win for everyone.

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**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/86 "2024-09-12T02:39:04Z")

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I appreciate the message, so thank you; however, I have different ideas about what heroes do. I just sit in a funky recliner and squeeze a ball for a few hours every couple of weeks so that the friendly phlebotomists can harvest cellular goodies from my precious bodily fluids.

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/4/d/4d5ffc278e39d8cd2d4634e6e677286f4d22e442.jpeg "Dr. Strangelove (4/8) Movie CLIP - Water and Commies (1964) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67wKhddWu4)

> [@carverofchoice](#):
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> Lots of my female friends in college donated plasma for money too help fund their needs.

A guy I’ve known since second grade told me years later that he sold some of his other precious bodily fluids for a while during college until it occurred to him that some time in the future he might possibly be walking down a street somewhere and encounter a child he never knew he’d “fathered”. He decided that was too weird and then stopped doing that. I understand that decision. I’m okay with selling plasma, though.

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**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/87 "2024-10-11T14:13:19Z")

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![No more ❤️. 🙁](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/2/f/2f673d97e17f3d723392a95d3225322287d71cbc.png)

Oof! Stop clicking the ❤ so much, dude! 🙄

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**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/88 "2024-10-11T14:20:26Z")

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![Seapup liked this](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/2/9/2972d86f9442eccb5b0b578d5614882071019825.png)

@Seapup, that’s appropriate, because it was one of your posts! 😁

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**Author:** ![Seapup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/seapup/32/118966_2.png) [@Seapup](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Seapup)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/89 "2024-10-11T14:28:36Z")

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I’m blessed with ♾❤ ❤ ❤ to bestow. 😃

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**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/90 "2024-10-11T14:38:11Z")

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![Green with Envy](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/a/c/acc03024c2a2f57316ce9c96856f3e00817da653.png "Green with Envy")

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**Author:** ![Seapup](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/seapup/32/118966_2.png) [@Seapup](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Seapup)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/91 "2024-10-11T14:55:42Z")

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# 💚 💚 💚

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**Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/92 "2024-10-28T07:21:02Z")

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![Reddit AMA Envoy](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/1/1/11853282aa6cd480aa45c23d23de306a884fe91a.png "Reddit AMA Envoy")

Thanks to @habib\[1\], @ssummerlin\[2\], and (of course) @carverofchoice\[3\] for this one.

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> [@Firmware updates - Released 4/15/2024](https://forums.wyze.com/t/firmware-updates-released-4-15-2024/296299/84):
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> You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown! I voted and thank you kindly sir. I hope Wyze will listen.

2. 

> [@Reddit AMA w/Product Managers - 2pm PT 10/25/2024](https://forums.wyze.com/t/reddit-ama-w-product-managers-2pm-pt-10-25-2024/313533/27):
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> Or at least given another badge.

3. 

> [@Reddit AMA w/Product Managers - 2pm PT 10/25/2024](https://forums.wyze.com/t/reddit-ama-w-product-managers-2pm-pt-10-25-2024/313533/3):
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> REDDIT AMA SUMMARY I will copy the Question then the employee answer. If you want to link to the original source for any reason, please go to the following Reddit Thread and search for the question you’re interested in linking to: [https://www.reddit.com/r/wyzecam/comments/1g9r1uu/ama\_wproduct\_managers\_2pm\_pt\_10252024/](https://www.reddit.com/r/wyzecam/comments/1g9r1uu/ama_wproduct_managers_2pm_pt_10252024/) Note, Questions are sorted in order of what Reddit said were the “Best” questions (most upvoted vs downvoted ratio in a certain time ratio): …

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**Author:** ![habib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/habib/32/110070_2.png) [@habib](https://forums.wyze.com/u/habib)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2024, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/93 "2024-10-28T10:37:15Z")

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Just trying to be a good “citizen” 👍

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**Author:** ![Crease](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/crease/32/123254_2.png) [@Crease](https://forums.wyze.com/u/Crease)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/94 "2024-12-26T19:15:56Z")

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> [@Worst products](https://forums.wyze.com/t/worst-products/319419/13):
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> I need to request a new badge name_badge labeled “Escapee” in the near future grin Hope they don’t post a bounty flushed

 ![Escapee](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/7/5/75b6645383e52cb0a0f891911f9a047718316876.png "Escapee")

Seriously, just ask @bryonhu! 😉

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**Author:** ![carverofchoice](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/carverofchoice/32/107068_2.png) [@carverofchoice](https://forums.wyze.com/u/carverofchoice)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/95 "2024-12-26T19:33:14Z")

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AKA “Benedict Arnold” badge. 😂 j/k

I have had to start buying lots of smart home stuff from other companies too, though not cameras. Wyze cameras work great for me, but they just stopped doing anything besides cameras and there are a lot of smart home things I need they may never get around to now, and they’re really slow with compatibility, so, I have to get non-camera stuff elsewhere, especially for home assistant stuff. That’s totally their fault for abandoning expansion of their smart home lineup though. I would’ve been completely happy to continue expanding their ecosystem if they would’ve committed to doing so.

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**Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/96 "2024-12-26T20:04:18Z")

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Yeah, although I don’t have it, I think it’s cool that they launched the non-camera Scale Ultra and Wi-Fi Chime (although the latter is essentially a camera accessory for now) this year, and I hope that means they can shift back to other non-camera smart home things in the future.

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**Author:** ![peepeep](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/peepeep/32/107148_2.png) [@peepeep](https://forums.wyze.com/u/peepeep)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/97 "2025-05-04T19:03:53Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/f/c/fc881dcaa43facd26834d9bf5a66296cae8bad6a.png)

Lol, very good! You’re virtually ‘stealth’ in dark mode (which I almost always use.) 🙂

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**Author:** ![carverofchoice](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/user_avatar/forums.wyze.com/carverofchoice/32/107068_2.png) [@carverofchoice](https://forums.wyze.com/u/carverofchoice)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/98 "2025-05-04T23:34:57Z")

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I had no idea what his pfp was. I’m in dark mode and couldn’t see it. Now that you posted it in light mode I can zoom in and see it 🙂

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**Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 12:50am UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/99 "2025-05-05T00:50:15Z")

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> [@peepeep](#):
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> very good!

Thanks! I’ve been playing with transparencies more and more since I went through [my  
∅ 🍔 / ␀ 🍔 progression](https://forums.wyze.com/t/why-am-i-so-sloppy/325971/16) a while back:

 ![nothingburger](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/f/e/feb9c1d29bdb6230b8b17d7aabc8bae493c6f9cd.png "nothingburger") ![nothingburger 80% opaque](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/8/2/82cb71690ecf1f1b4ee6d74c24d97c6b782f03f5.png "nothingburger 80% opaque") ![nothingburger 60% opaque](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/0/1/01f813b2a7bb10db78b37cc6f39fa0699e6206ff.png "nothingburger 60% opaque") ![nothingburger 40% opaque](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/a/3/a326f57d43b3a43d14279a72df2725a0dc2fed9d.png "nothingburger 40% opaque") ![nothingburger 20% opaque](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/c/a/caba12960752feb7c3ad53f59d70120014af2d4d.png "nothingburger 20% opaque") ![nothingburger 10% opaque](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/f/c/fc00a55e451d85e154e26682d41300b0961ed2b1.png "nothingburger 10% opaque") ![nothingburger 5% opaque](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/0/c/0c9f870c2831f4fbbdcb0bd3b599cbba2924c6e4.png "nothingburger 5% opaque")

> [@peepeep](#):
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> dark mode (which I almost always use.)

Same, though sometimes I switch to Wyze Theme (or use a different browser) for capturing screenshots.

> [@carverofchoice](#):
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> I’m in dark mode and couldn’t see it.

So maybe I shouldn’t bug Wyze so much about contrast issues in their app? 🤓 (Not really the same thing, because my mucking about with my Profile Picture doesn’t—or _shouldn’t_—negatively affect anyone’s ability to use this platform.)

> [@carverofchoice](#):
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> I had no idea what his pfp was.

No worries. It’s subject to Δ! 🥸

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**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://forums.wyze.com/t/wheres-my-badge/298173/100 "2025-05-26T20:01:01Z")

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> [@MFP is still a camel cat](https://forums.wyze.com/t/mfp-is-still-a-camel-cat/330710/18):
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> If I was Secretary of Offense

You are? 😲

 ![peepeep Secretary of Offense](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/wyze/original/3X/5/5/55cb8a798905c48daebeb1e85a664e0ec1c2f4fe.png "peepeep Secretary of Offense")

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