Thread:Pearl is awsome/@comment-24583427-20141111223107/@comment-4224349-20141112005322

AwesomeSteven wrote: I have also just noticed through further investigation that certain people have earned all Badges (Brandon, Killer, some inactive people), and others (me, you, and Superluigi) haven't. If you're wondering about my avatar, just look at my blog post. The problem is that badges were enabled previously, and Brandon, Killer, and some others were there to get the badges. Now that they are enabled again, the people who had badges before when they were first enabled, have them back.

Think of it as a multiplayer game: you play a video game by yourself and get 1,000 points. Then, you pause the game and add another player. You restart where you left off, and you still have 1,000 points while the new player has no points.