I do see your point, but there are quite a lot of members in RBXDev and I don’t think it is that big of an achievement.
I do agree on this because some people are looking for skilled developers, so if they find someone with said badge it would be easy to find a real developer.
Solution on that about scams:
There is an unofficial Devforum group that only accepts Devforum members.
The suggestion for devforum badges is now moot because of how much the forum has grown since this thread was created. Previously it was much more personal, but now anyone can become a member. Skill is no longer a requirement for the devforum, and there’s no guarantee that the users we’re accepting are sincere – we don’t have nearly enough information when accepting members at this scale.
The solution on too many getting accepted would be setting more requirements etc. And if I’m not too wrong, only 100 does get accepted each month. And possibly removing inactive Devforum members. Edit: Only give the badge to members with the trust level “member”, and not to the members with “upcoming developer” trust level.