Is there a system we could implement where if a person starts to have too many medals they automatically have limitations imposed? Or they can choose what medals get displayed? That'd be the easiest way around this problem. I guess it all depends on how flexible the forum software is =/
The forum software is quite inflexible unfortunately. A player either has or hasn't got a medal, they cannot be given duplicates, and if they are given a medal it will show everywhere where that person's medals are shown.
To be clear, my vote regarding the second question comes from my philosophy regarding the medals that we should show the best that someone has achieved, rather than everything that someone has achieved, at a glance. When you hover over someone's medals, someone who has a lot of medals, it can be difficult to figure out what that person has or hasn't achieved in a variety of metas at a glance. Although you can find out greater detail by going to their specific medals page and viewing the reasons / look at the appropriate season spreadsheet, you can't find it out at a surface level. Furthermore, just highlighting the best that someone has achieved is what we already do with Player Rankings, where players only get their highest achievement in the player rankings on their profile, even though they may have also achieved lower achievements. I don't think that the medal system is best suited to a displaying-all-achievements approach since we cannot award duplicates of a medal.
So fundamentally the second question is one of, what do you think our medal system should be doing: should it be showing all of a person's achievements, inasmuch as it is possible at a glance, or should it only be highlighting their best achievements. There's no right or wrong answer as to which approach we should take; the medal system isn't best suited to the former approach, but that doesn't mean we can't choose to endeavor to make our approach follow that philosophy as stringently as possible.
