Overview
On our community website we are placing the mini badge in every activity stream item which help us distinguish between users with active, expired, or no license at all.
In our case, the little green badge in lower right-hand corner JS Active help us determine that user is having an active license, so our support team can react accordingly.
In other use cases, you might want to have a VIP users, or simply "tag" the people that belong to a different Joomla User Group like this