Admin Badge

The Admin Badge is the third badge to be released on TV Tropes and the oldest available and existing badge to be awarded today. As the name suggests, it can only be given to administrators, although some Tropers have managed (briefly) to earn the badge through beta access privileges.

The Admin Badge was released on April 9, 2012 with the Badge Shop Open Beta, and was officially released along with the remaining Awards badges on June 27, 2012. It cannot be obtained by anyone except an administrator, and attempting to do so will result in your account being banned.

Trivia

 * With its numeric ID of 3, the Admin Badge is the oldest existing badge that is still obtainable as of the present day.
 * With the closure of the badge shop in July 2014, this badge became unobtainable through beta testing, although it is still available through direct moderator intervention.
 * During beta testing, six users had this badge - one admin and five beta testers. These users were:
 * Belian
 * shimaspawn
 * Noaquiyeum
 * BestOf
 * lu127
 * FastEddie
 * Fighteer
 * When the badge was officially released, all of the holders except for FastEddie had it revoked. Anyone in the forums thread was given the Beta Tester badge as compensation.
 * If a non-user tries to get (or gets) the Admin Badge, they will be banned. This built-in security check is also present in the Moderator Badge and P5 Badge.
 * The only way to gain the Admin Badge is to be an administrator, which is why FastEddie was the only one with the badge.
 * Nevertheless, the new administrators of the site (drewski and itcdr) do not have the badge, leading to speculations that it has been disabled (or that they forgot to give themselves the badges).