Questions tagged [badges]
Awarded to encourage and incentivize positive community actions within the site.
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How is a well-received question defined?
What are the technical criterion for a question to be defined as well-received? I am looking for the definition in context of the following badges:
Curious: Ask a well-received question on 5 separate ...
Nimesh NeemaMod
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Shout out to people for rescuing questions
I wanted to publicly recognize a handful of people that no surprise are here to help. (And very effective at helping)
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/06/18/adios-to-unfriendly-badges-ahoy-lifejacket-...
bmikeMod
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Is the 'Lifejacket' Badge a new thing?
I earned two "Lifejacket" badges today, [not both on AD] on questions that had passed the criteria for its merit a long time ago.
Is it just a 'new' badge, now being applied retrospectively?
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Why are there reputation badges on meta?
From Why is there no reputation change in meta:
I wasn't around when the meta on the main trilogy was formed, but meta we down vote things we don't want to see. It's like a caucus or straw vote. If ...
user310476
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Make our badges Apple shaped
Different sites have different shapes badges according to the theme:
Travel has a map pointer
Android has an Android icon
English Language Learners have bookmarks
So why shouldn’t our badges be ...
user310476
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Visual bug on tabs covering badge tracker
There's a bug where the tabs in the Activity screen overlap the badge tracker section and it hides the "Track the next one" link. Chrome 69.0.3497.100 on OSX 10.14 Mojave.
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Why does Meta award badges and inherit reputation?
I understand that you don't get reputation in Meta as it's a part of AskDifferent, and meta.stackoverflow is a bigger "independent" site which does.
But why doesn't it show badges from main site here?...
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Vox Populi not awarded
I've casted 40 votes on last saturday, and I didn't receive Vox Populi.
How is this possible? I've received the warning I couldn't cast any vote for the next 10 hours that saturday.
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Should Civic Duty and Electorate be put between the same hr tags in the Badges list?
Perhaps they aren't directly related as the other bronze-silver-gold badge progressions, but it seems like they could be grouped with each other in the list.
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Is having a question with high views and low votes common?
I recently earned the Famous Question badge [10k views] for App Store "An Unknown Error Has Occurred", Apple Support fix was only temporary. How fix permanently?
I note that there are still ...
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Badge achievement completion percent indicator
There are some badges which requires a certain number of "Actions". For example
Commentator: Left 10 comments
or
Announcer: shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP ...
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Why were a whole bunch of users just awarded the Vox Populi badge on meta? [closed]
I've only cast three votes on meta this week, and yet I was just awarded the Vox Populi badge. I see there was a spate of awarding this particular badge, but I haven't noticed a spate of meta voting.
DanielMod
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How are tag badges chosen?
Our list of tag badges is pathetically small in my opinion, and in dire need of changes, the most obvious of which is iphone -> ios, yet I feel that any iOS answer (iPhone, iPod, iPod-touch and ...
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I successfully suggested an edit to a tag wiki. Why no [tag editor] bronze badge?
Several days ago, I successfully suggested an edit to a tag wiki, yet for some reason I haven't earned the bronze tag editor badge. Does anyone know why not?
DanielMod
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automatic SE profile transfer for Autobiographer badge
I have noticed that when I sign up for most sites in the SE network, I automatically get the Autobiographer badge after a few minutes of interacting with the new SE site. When I do, I look at my ...
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