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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.
Or ...
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Can the 'you don't have a [class] badge yet' message be synced to whatever badge you're tracking?
I have a feature request to make.
Right now, my Profile tab shows the following on Meta:
Per my interpretation, what this is telling me is: You don't have a gold badge- if you want to get a gold ...
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Is there any way to hide my badges and reputation from others?
I ask because I believe badges and reputation serve only in creating implicit bias amongst askers when viewing answers and comments, and on the flip-side amongst commenters and answerers when viewing ...
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Don't cut badges too early
Some long-named badges are truncated too early on the profile page when viewed on narrow screens (e.g., on Android Chrome):
Reproducible on Windows 10 desktop Chrome as well:
Could we just display ...
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Bind right corner of the next badge progress bar to the badge block border
On most cases (screen width) the right corner of the next badge progress bar is aligned with bronze badge block. But sometimes when newest badge and next badge can not fit into single line, the right ...
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Move recommended badge item under the badge progress
There is "Recommended" item in "Select your next badge" popup:
My suggestion is to move that item below the badge progress bar (or even after the badge description). This will ...
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Badge suggestions: Finder, Hunter, and Detective [duplicate]
To encourage helpful dupe-finders (regardless of whether they can close vote or flag), I am thinking of the following badges:
(bronze) Finder: Find a duplicate that gets the question closed as a dupe ...
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More columns for badges in narrow width mode
It seems that badges could be displayed in more columns in narrow width mode. Tested on my iPad.
Below the screenshots to compare:
full width
3/4 width
half width
quarter width
At least one more ...
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Reverse-Search Option for Badges Missing [duplicate]
Can we readd the feature where we can see how to earn badges in Stack Exchange? Since a recent update I can't find it.
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Vox Populi badge basic-description not accurate enough
The basic description of the Vox Populi badge says:
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day.
It is quite confusing and frustrating when you reach 39/40 for the badge and you cannot vote anymore. (see e.g. ...
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Make full stop usage consistent in badge descriptions
In the Badges page, out of the 80+ badge descriptions, only 5 have full stops, and the others don't have.
The five are: Fanatic, Enthusiast, and the three Tag Badges, it can be seen here:
Can this ...
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Can we preserve the right alignment of usercards in the recently awarded lists of badges [duplicate]
I was browsing the list of recently awarded Necromancer badges and noticed that some of the usercards where aligned to the left, instead of to the right. It is obvious that these usercards don't fit ...
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Badge Dates on User Profile should show the Year once the Year is over
In the example screenshot taken from my Arqade user profile summary, I earned the Socratic badge on November 16th, 2021. But all it shows on the summary page is "Nov 16". When I see this, ...
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Remove 'Autobiographer' from Recent Badges
Until a better method is implemented to prevent spam accounts from seeing the light of day, can we remove either the 'Autobiographer' badge from the Recent Badges list, or, alternatively, prevent ...
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Can the 'receive your first Gold Badge' description be changed?
Every time I notice the following suggestion, I get slightly amused:
You don't have a gold badge yet. Write an answer that scores 100 or more to earn your first.
I think this is not helpful advice ...
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Should there be a lower threshold for getting gold tag badge, on less popular tags?
A gold badge for a tag gives a user additional review power, to help manage low-quality questions having that tag.
At https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges?tab=tags&filter=gold, we see that there ...
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Revive the Not a Robot badge on other sites?
After becoming a Joomla Stack Exchange moderator in 2019, I asked (in the moderator Q&A) if it would be possible to bring back the Not a Robot badge for all SE sites.
This was a somewhat urgent ...
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Separate Editor badge and other usages of word "Editor" in translations
On Stack Overflow in Russian we have "Младший редактор" badge. This is a creative translation of original badge named "Editor". The translation "Младший редактор" (junior ...
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Are there plans to create some education or certifications on Stack Exchange?
A lot of people hate this question... so I'll try to reword it.
Has Stack Overflow considered moving into an educational capacity that leads to something tangible like a certification?
The ...
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Please, transfer reviews (or just split score for them) from the "First posts" queue to new "First questions" and "First answers" queues [duplicate]
This is not a duplicate of this question, it's a feature request!
Please do not close it, leave the possibility for the staff members to answer this question (and not to just comment one of the ...
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Activity tag badge redirecting instead to my posts with that tag
In the Activity profile I see
If I click in the badge "review" it goes to the general "review" page
In my opinion would be great to go instead to my posts with "review" ...
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Decrease the gain of reputation for popular questions or answers above certain limits [duplicate]
As I'm new on Stack Overflow I wanted to share my point of view regarding reputation score.
I think it's unfair and discouraging for newcomers that old users have billions in score on Stack Overflow.
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Move the new badge UI in the profile page to under Top tags
The new profile page badge UI has been released and for an example if you go to my profile on SFF you'll see the following*:
Click image to enlarge.
Could it be moved to under the Top tags widget? I ...
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Why is there no statute of limitations for the Explainer badge family for closed questions? Can it please be added?
The Explainer, Refiner, and Illuminator badges (collectively, the edit and answer badge family) are awarded for answering and editing a question within 12 hours of each other, with the answer being ...
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Don't show the "Congratulations - you earned [badge]" notification in the badge tracker until the system has actually awarded the badge
In one's own user profile page's activity tab, on the badge tracker, if someone meets the criteria to earn the badge they're tracking, the page will show "Congratulations - you've earned [badge ...
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Could we get a clearer badge progress tracker for the Curious/Inquisitive/Socratic badges? [duplicate]
So I've asked 5 questions each with a positive score (and well-received, I guess) on 5 separate days. The badge indicator says that the task is complete (5/5), but I haven't been awarded that badge.
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Can the company lock specific badges?
When I barely started using Meta Stack Exchange, I was surprised that I couldn't access a bronze medal. The "Altruist" badge requires 75 reputation, and the "Commentator" badge 50! ...
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Is there a total score for the whole Stack Exchange stack?
On some days, I'd like to see a summary of my learning & share the knowledge achievements in total, regardless the topic.
Closest thing I found is going to the Stack Exchange Network Profile and ...
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Steward badge description rephrasing
Now when you can earn Steward badge multiple times inside a single review queue the following phrase looks weird:
Complete at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded multiple times per review ...
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Gold badge parity and balance - award criteria of the steward badge changes
As some have noticed, the steward gold badge is now awarded repeatedly for every 1000 additional reviews in each queue.
Prologue
The first mention of (possible) upcoming changes to the badges came ...
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