Someone might create a badge and then be disinclined to manually approve all nominations or designate a delegate group to take care of it. Offer the option to just auto-approve all incoming nominations.
A use case: Consider a "Friend of the Tree" badge at Mozilla, such that any nominations automatically result in awards so that anyone can highlight someone as a Friend of the Tree.
Someone might create a badge and then be disinclined to manually approve all nominations or designate a delegate group to take care of it. Offer the option to just auto-approve all incoming nominations.