Is there really such a thing here?
A fragile badge of Ego. 
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It’s actually pretty easy. Be active on the forums a few times per week, post user friendly and constructively, don’t spam one-liners, help others, know the fine line between sarcasm/cynism/irony and trolling/provoking.
This way you will collect likes and don’t receive many flagged posts. Don’t forget to give likes back if others post nicely and voilá, you’ll get “Veteran” status sooner or later. Not that it is worth anything, maybe your own flags are counted with a higher priority but I don’t know that for sure.
And regarding the numbers, outside the ISD/Dev Team its still maybe a dozen people. You can check here: EVE Online Forums
Most are CCP/GMs/ISD… staff team more or less. But still a few outside of those ranks.
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If you check @Syzygium’s link, you’ll see I am on it. I’ve been on and off, at least a couple of times, more due to lack of participation on the forum than anything else, I think.
However, when this new version of the EVE forum was introduced, I checked at that time. Besides myself, there two others listed as “Vets”. Everyone else, if I recall correctly, were either CCP employees or volunteers.
Edited to add: I don’t know why I was listed as a “Vet” then.
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And never post anything controversial that some forum warriors really don’t like, report you for it, make moderation take action and with that prevent you from ever reaching veteran status ever, while trolls get Veteran with ease.
One of my forum chars used to have Veteran status for a while, then posted some comments that went against the mainstream ideas, got reported a few times and lost it.
On the other hand: This forum tech is so dysfunctional and incomplete that none of these badges mean anything.
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Can’t confirm that. I am arguing fiercly all the time against
- cynos / hotdroppers
- large group dominance / blobbing
- upwell mechanics that favor large groups
- gankers when it comes to some nonsense-features that benefit them
- highseccers/carebears when it comes to some nonsense they whine about but could easily learn
- CCP and their - in my eyes - sometimes stupid game design decisions
- ect. pp.
for a pretty long time.
There is probably not a single group that has strong voices here at the boards that I haven’t called out or positioned myself against.
The point is how you do it. Do you bring arguments, provable facts and stay respectful? Or do you insult and ridicule, so the moderation has to step in at some point? Your choice.
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I had it, but went inactive after finding out my dad had cancer.
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I don’t think being reported would drop it, unless a moderator agrees with the report.
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The Veteran badge is valuable in well-moderated, fair communities.
In forums like EVE Online’s—where factionalism, ganking drama, and alt accusations run rampant—it’s often just another tool for the entrenched userbase to suppress uncomfortable truths or outsider voices.
Moderators appear with the most ridiculous reports. 
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I never insult. Unless posting stuff like “#CCPQualityCoding” is an insult … which moderation seems to count as one as I got a personal mail from Falcon (or someone else) to stop posting this hashtag at a time when CCP’s coding went down the drain at light speed.
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Might be your attitude then, I don’t really know. I criticize CPP all the time. I call their solutions often lazy, shortsighted, outright stupid in some cases. But I tend to always deliver some arguments or offer better solutions instead.
On the other hand, I got that “badge” without even knowing it existed. Not actively “aiming” for it for “caring” for it so I change my posting behaviour “to make sure not to lose it”. What would you need it for? It’s purely cosmetical.
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As the link to the badge related page (that also lists everyone who has it) has already been provided I think I will just mention this other thread about a partially shared subject for some related info and discussion: CCP - Time to fix the forum rule for dispensing 'LIKES"
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I always offer solutions as well where it’s appropriate or sensible. I am of the opinion that criticism does not make sense otherwise.
If you look through the discourse documentation (see Regular and Leader in the list, where Regular coincides almost perfectly with the Veteran badge) and some badge descriptions, badges like Veteran were supposed to give you rights to edit and work on wikis and other knowledge resources. Stuff that CCP never implemented.
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Probably more like had those aspects turned off, but I guess that’s what you’ve meant anyway, just thought for clarity it is best to make this distinction.
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Yeah I know that, thats why I wonder why people do even care about it. It hasn’t any noticable functionalty, it’s not much more than a “sticker” that shows you are pretty active.
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The veteran badge does nothing that is described..
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they did for a hot minute.. because i got one where i edited a title or some sort.. they knew it had too much power to give to the eve o community so the vet badge they won’t activate all it can do.
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