I think more could be done with the badges too. Not sure exactly what yet, but they need tweaking imo. What about email notifications for when a particular hubskier posts? Maybe I would be interested in knowing when or or posts? I would actually use that for those 3 people. That way when I'm at my desk at work I don't have to keep toggling over to Hubski to see if one of my favorite submitters posted but can get an email. It would obviously have to be something you opted in to. What do you think?
As for badges, that's good to hear. Some updates are in the works, and will start appearing soon. As you've requested. :) As an aside, sharing posts by email will be rolled out in a day or two.
I recognize that Hubski is a place without downvotes, but Reddit's handy-dandy method for setting up an RSS feed for whenever somebody comments is why I have an army of tedious little shits preventing me from commenting usefully. Saydrah has ~6 downvote bots even now. All it takes is a griefer with an axe to grind showing up and stirring up shit whenever you contribute to really kill the buzz of contributing.
Edit: It might be neat to just enable HTML5 desktop notifications like GMail has now, though, for when you have hubski already open