If it goes on the number of avatars you have used, then I deserve my long service award!!! If it doesn't, then do away with what was a good idea at the meeting in the pub. We know who the clever people are.
I think the threads querying badges will keep coming though until the problems are ironed out or a message is put on our profiles next to the Badge count saying that the figures are known to be incorrect so please bear with us until it's sorted.
I've got badges for one, two, three, five and ten years' service. You could put the last one on hold for three years, and maybe winnow the others down a little.