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Like pokelover102 said, you just gotta wait some time. The A New Community badge is only awarded after the user has had 5 posts posted for 24 hours, which means you won't get the badge if any of your posts get deleted before that time is up. This is to prevent rewarding spam.

Comments on other people's forum posts are forum posts as well. To be clear, Kobero's starting message and this message I've posted are both forum posts and count for the A New Community badge.

However, any posts in the Roleplay and Forum Games subforums won't be counted in your "forum posts" count and won't count towards earning the badge.

Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy evening, a small mouse searched for a shelter to house her family, to keep them safe from the weather and those who would do them harm. Staying to the shadows of the streets, the mouse did her best to hurry in her search as her worry for her children grew.

Thankfully, a warm light shining through a backdoor of a home accidentally left slightly open eased her mind. A quick peek into the cosy home revealed it to be perfect: Warm and dry with a mouth-watering smell of food carrying over to the mouse’s nose from further within.

Perhaps it was too perfect.

Resisting the urge to follow that scent then and there, she turned on her tail and scurried back to her family to tell them of her great discovery.

The mouse did her best to be careful as she hurried her tired and cold children onwards, assuring them they’d get to rest with full bellies soon enough. As the house came back into view, the backdoor still open, the mouse breathed a sigh of relief.

“I wouldn’t go in there if I was you. They don’t like vermin of any size there.”

Her heart leaping to her throat, the mouse chastised herself for getting ahead of herself and her stomach dropped as she spotted the one who had surprised them. A cat stared at them from a discarded cardboard box next to a trashcan.

“Go on, now. Just a little further,” The mouse hesitantly urged her terrified children forward as she kept her eyes on the cat who had fortunately stayed inside his cardboard home.

“It’s alright,” the cat tried to calm them, “I’m not in search of food nor should you look for any in there.” His words fell on deaf ears as the mouse family reached their sanctuary, the mother shooting parting words at the cat before disappearing inside as well:

“I’d rather stick my nose into a mouse trap than trust the word of a cat!”

With those bold words and the warmth of the house, the mouse felt more at ease once more as she went over to her children who had their noses curiously up in the air as their tiny eyes took in as much of the house as they could. The relieved mother did a head count. One of them was missing.

He couldn’t have gotten far, the mouse thought as she scanned the room, trying to locate her lost child. She was correct, it turns out, as she spotted him further by the wall of the home. He had found a piece of cheese on the floor. Oddly, it was placed on top of a small piece of wood separate from the wooden floors. There was a metal spring next to the cheese.

The mouse had no time to react in her dawning horror before the resounding snap robbed any comfort the warmth of the house could offer.