How to implement badges?

Question

I\'ve given some thought to implementing badges (just like the badges here on Stack Overflow) and think it would be difficult without Windows services, but I\'d like to avoi

Answer 1

comments must be stored within the database right? then i think there are two main ways to do this.

1) when a user logs in you get a count of the comments. this is obvisously not the desired approach as the count could take a lot of time

2) when a user posts a comment you could either do a count then and store the count with the use details or you could do a trigger which executes when a comment is added. the trigger would then get the details of the newly created comment, grab the user id, get a count and store that against the user in a table of some sort.

i like the idea of a trigger as your program can return w/out waiting for sql server to do its stuff.