<p>This option means that the badge will be marked as "retired" and will no longer appear in the list of badges. Users will no longer be able to earn this badge, however existing badge recipients will still be able to display this badge on their profile page and push it to their external backpacks.</p>
<p>If you would like your users to retain access to the earned badges it is important to select this option instead of fully deleting badges.</p>