Piri what exactly do you have in mind by awards or badges?
The way I was talking about is very literally just that you get a little badge with a 'rank' depending on how many posts you make. Maybe you start as a seed, then after 25 posts you are a flower, and then different levels going up, maybe by the time you get to 1000 you are a whole ecosystem.
You could also get badges for other things, but I can't think of an example right now. π€