Badges

https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/contribution-information/user-profile-badges/G86A698XFX3KTHXS# And indeed most types of them are purely trophies, but fans of IMDb could build social clubs with membership eligibility requirements around these things if they so desired, except it might be harder to do without a communications system native to IMDb·Com like there used to be with the bulletin board system. Having an IMDb Top Contributor badge for a particular calendar year always coincides with having full-fledged IMDbPro access at no charge only during the calendar year after the one in which the rewarded collection of contributions actually occurred.