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We are going to be addressing this in the very near future, employing the new user card badges that were just released in Stacks to decorate staff and mod display names on Meta sites.
When this change goes live, on all Meta sites (including MSE):
- Mod diamonds will be replaced by the new Mod badge (which includes a diamond). These badges will all start out in blue (as shown in the screenshots here), but could change color in the future to match color themes on sites if/when these are modified.
- Staff badges will follow the user's display name anywhere on the site where the name is shown. This includes question listings, user profile, author/modified boxes on questions and answers, comments, timeline/user history, post notices, (and many more places). The badge will be Stack Overflow Orange on all sites.
Here is how it will look in the Users listing:
And here is a sample from some comments:
The new mod badges will not yet be included on Main sites (or anywhere on Chat or the main StackExchange.com site) where for the time being, the good old unaddorned mod diamond will live on. And there are no plans to show staff labels on Main sites aside from the profile page.
Cruising on Meta
"Who is that user?", she thought
Check out 'dem badges