By default, myCRED will give users a badge automatically based on your setup. This snippet will allow you to create badges that will never be automatically awarded to users. These manual badges would need to be added manually by editing the user in the admin area.

manual-mycred-badges

/**
 * Manual Badge Reference
 * @version 1.0
 */
add_filter( 'mycred_all_references', 'mycred_pro_manual_badge' );
function mycred_pro_manual_badge( $references ) {

	$references['disabled_feature'] = 'Badge is manually awarded';
	return $references;

}