Happened to me with some zombie show a few years back. Told everyone it looked dumb, then binged the whole thing in a week and hated myself for it. That 2am on a work night feeling is real.

Probably some people just paying for convenience, not every badge means scam...

My grandma had a rule about her African violets, water them every Sunday no matter what. Took me killing three of those before I realized she was watering in a different climate and with different pots. The real kicker was when I started weighing my pots, once a fern pot gets light its screaming for water, heavy means its fine. Your moisture meter is good but the weight trick saved my collection, you can feel the difference in like two weeks.