Questions tagged [badges]
For questions about the badge system on the Stack Exchange network. Badges are awarded to encourage and incentivize positive community actions within the site.
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How is it determined whether or not to display the year an achievement was earned? It seems inconsistent
What I would expect is that any date within the current calendar year would display with day/month only, while all dates from previous years would have the full day/month/year format.
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When did the good question badge get retired? [duplicate]
Just for curiosity, I wonder when did the good question get retired and when did it come out?
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Network profile badges section not showing all my badges
Or at least- it's not showing them in order. I don't know. I'm not paging through every page to check. For example, I (somehow) earned 7 Announcer badges on June 5th and none of them show up in my ...
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The alignment of rep and badges is off on the top bar
I'm not sure if this has been raised elsewhere, but on the user awards in the top bar, the alignment of text for the reputation and badges is off, and it's a bit annoying:
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If I include my user ID in a domain redirect URL like arqade.com, will this still count toward the Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges?
Several SE sites have alternate domain names that redirect to their main URLs.
Arqade redirects from arqade.com to gaming.stackexchange.com
Ask Different from askdifferent.com to apple.stackexchange....
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Badge achievements broken? [duplicate]
I recently got badges for Yearling in ELL and English Stack exchange, and they looked funny. I realized that I was looking at the badges from another site in the achievement dialog.
This is what it ...
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Do moderators have the ability to add/remove badges from user accounts?
Do moderators have the ability to add badges (in the case of bugs, edge cases, etc.) or remove badges (in the case of vote abuse, etc.)?
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Too many full stops…
This has got to be the smallest text correction request ever…
…but as noticed in a question on English Language Learners - Should a full stop punctuation be used in Abbreviations? - there are too many ...
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Empty "Select your next badge" window after validating a badge [duplicate]
SHORT DESCRIPTION
The "Select your next badge" window of Stack Exchange presented after one has just validated a badge is empty.
LONGER DESCRIPTION
After receiving a new badge (in this case, ...
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Long name of badge makes badge fat on Next Badge popup
When a badge with a long enough name hits into the Next Badge popup, it appears fat on a narrow screen:
It turns out it also happening on wide screens (e.g., on iPad Pro 11"):
Here's clearly ...
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Can I voluntarily cast a single close vote despite having a gold badge? [duplicate]
Voting to close as duplicate can be done by gold-badge owners without requiring votes from other people ("dupehammer"). This is often sensible and useful. However, is it possible to ...
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Why are some badges from the "Select your next badge" window not listed on the list of badges pointed on the tour page?
Why does the description of the list of badges on the tour of a SE site does not match the content of the "Select your next badge" information window shown to the user when they receive a ...
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In September I am told about a badge received in December... which year? [duplicate]
What does this mean:
When did I (will I :) earn this badge? It is September, December is still ahead of us.
Is it Dec 2, 2022? Only (due to a bug?) year is omitted?
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Possible bug about socratic badge not being awarded [duplicate]
On Mathematics, I came across a user with 411 questions, but no Socratic badge even though 245 questions had positive votes (I didn't check whether all of them are on separate days). Shouldn't he ...
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Add a bit column for whether a badge is retired in SEDE or a RetiredDate column
It would be nice (for example) to be able to easily filter out badges that are retired when querying SEDE for analysis purposes.
A bit for it would work, or alternatively, a nullable RetiredDate.
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