Trying to figure out a way to find badges that don't work, in a system that can't track them, without a way to display them, in a way you can't demonstrate to anyone, and which cannot affect gameplay in any way, pretty much is a microcosm of the City of Heroes badge community.
If the devs had announced that they added a badge to the game, but it had no artwork, no title, and wouldn't show up in badge listings, and they forgot what the requirements were for it, a segment of the badge community would have begun looking for it immediately.