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title: Badges
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Users may be labeled with badges. These are images with a short title, expressing a user's activity level, importance or role in the context of the website. Badges can be displayed in forum posts, on user public profiles or in your own custom controls.

There are two **types of badges**:

- **Automatic badges** - these are assigned to users based on their number of activity points. Every time a user gains [activity points](https://docs.kentico.com/k8/community-features/badges/assigning-badges-to-users.md), for example by posting on the website's forums, the system automatically checks whether the level required for a new badge has been reached and updates it if this is the case.
- **Non-automatic badges** - assigned to users by site administrators. These are permanent unless manually changed, regardless of the number of activity points acquired by the given user.

In the screenshot below, you can see one of the pre-defined badges in a forum post.

![A user badge displayed with a forum post](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/badges/image2013-3-12.png "A user badge displayed with a forum post")