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Context. GitHub has introduced a new gamification element through personalachievements, whereby badges are unlocked and displayed on developers' personalprofile pages in recognition of their development activities. Objective. Inthis paper, we present an exploratory analysis using mixed methods to study thediffusion of personal badges in GitHub, in addition to the effects andreactions to their introduction. Method. First, we conduct an observationalstudy by mining longitudinal data from more than 6,000 developers and performedcorrelation and regression analysis. Then, we conduct a survey and analyze over300 GitHub community discussions on the topic of personal badges to gauge howthe community responded to the introduction of the new feature. Results. Wefind that most of the developers sampled own at least a badge, but we alsoobserve an increasing number of users who choose to keep their profile privateand opt out of displaying badges. Besides, badges are generally poorlycorrelated with developers' qualities and dispositions such as timeliness anddesire to collaborate. We also find that, except for the Starstruck badge(reflecting the number of followers), their introduction does not have aneffect. Finally, the reaction of the community has been in general mixed, asdevelopers find them appealing in principle but without a clear purpose andhardly reflecting their abilities in the current form. Conclusions. We providerecommendations to GitHub platform designers on how to improve the currentimplementation of personal badges as both a gamification mechanism and assources of reliable cues of ability for developers' assessment

A Lot of Talk and a Badge: An Exploratory Analysis of Personal Achievements in GitHub