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)
- 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).
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 - 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