So I can't remember the last time I nosed around the QuickBooks community but I just received the following e-mail:

"All,

I wanted to reach out and let you know that we are going to be updating and adding some new badges to the community tomorrow, Feb 25th, and because you are among the top contributors you may end up getting quite a few notifications from them."

Intuit's Badge Team must have ordered too  many badges and the new shipments must have arrived over the weekend.  It looks like they are now trying to clear some space in their badge warehouse.