Question Regarding Forum Badges

I recently discovered that you can still view Forum Badges by hovering over someone's icon/name. I don't think I saw any S3 ranked rewards (I know someone who I'm pretty sure got to gold last season, but he only had a recruiter badge) which is weird, but I did see a few ranked badges, along with quite a few recruiter badges. So, I'm wondering if these will be the last badges available, I personally though it was a pretty cool concept, although sometimes people did abuse their ranked badges.

I know that badges aren't included in the S4 rewards which imo is a shame because people already have their old badges (unless it's a bug), and can already abuse that, and will in fact probably abuse it more once they find out they're the only ones that have it. I dislike inconsistency, and it may confuse some newer members why only a select few have ranked badges, while others don't.

If you do plan on returning badges to the boards, may I suggest a Junior Member, Member, and Senior Member Badge. It honestly helped me a lot in the old boards to see if someone is trolling or if it was just a new member that needed help.