Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4234382-20160418164552/@comment-24258073-20160607090816

If VSTF, Helpers, and Staff are exempt from earning badges, then they'd remain exempt from earning them. Unless a member of those groups were to apply for admin-ship, and their request would pass.

Assuming that what Josephyr said about VSTF, Helpers, and Staff having admin rights would no longer be exempt from earning badges, is correct.

VSTF, Helpers, and Staff do have the permissions to grant themselves admin rights, but the last time I checked, they didn't have the rights to do it.