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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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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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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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Display positive question record actual number/ratio for user convenience [duplicate]
Personal Opinion
Example Badge: When I click on the Electoral badge (Picture One) I can see percentage, but why not on this Curious badge (Picture Two)... generally new user are confused by seeing ...
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Review badges, we need more of them! [duplicate]
In the past a lot of people have argued to get rid of review badges all together. For example here and here.
To an extent these questions are a bit old, and are based on different mechanics of the ...
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"You always meet twice"-like badge? [duplicate]
I was wondering if stackoverflow had a badge when the following interactions happen between two users:
user A answered a question from user B,
user B answered a question from user A.
And if such a ...
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Badge For Highest Badges Earned In a Day
Why isin't there a badge for highest number of badges earned in a day?
Example: You earn a badge 'A' for earning 5 badges in the same day.
Is it because people may try to use unfair methods to ...
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Award additional badges for above 2,000 review tasks [duplicate]
While some gold badges are cumulable without huge effort, like
Famous Question (10,000 views) or Great Answer (score of 100), it seems that the time spent in reviewing cannot be rewarded anymore past ...
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Add link to open the Next badge page on the profile activity page
The "Next tag badge" and "Newest" badge widget have this button:
But "Next badge" widget doesn't:
Can you add the button on this popup to open the badge page?
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Move similar voting badges to the same groups
Context
I'm talking about the Badges page for each site. There you can see six voting badges:
Supporter
Critic
Suffrage
Vox Populi
Civic Duty
Electorate
Problem
Every voting badge resides in a ...
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Why is there no popular/notable/famous answer badge?
I see that in all Stack Exchange sites (at least the ones I checked) there are badges for Popular, Notable, and Famous Question, when it gets to 1k, 2.5k, and 10k views, respectively.
My question is ...
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Badge proposal: posts that are linked to often
It occurred to me that incoming links to posts may be a solid quality and/or relevance criterion. Hence, I propose a (set of) badge(s) should be added to highlight posts that are linked to more often ...
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Badge - Civic Duty - Vote 300 or more times [duplicate]
What is Badge - Civic Duty
It has simple description "Vote 300 or more times". I'm looking for detail of this badge. I can't see any effect upon down vote question/answers. Does it consider down vote ...
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Should Badges that can no longer be awarded be removed from the 'Badges' panel? [duplicate]
I was browsing the Stack Overflow badges tab earlier, and noticed there are some badges that can no longer be awarded.
For example;
Analytic
Precognitive
Beta
These are badges that, unless I'm ...
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Clarify the meaning of the Generalist badge
So here's the description of Generalist:
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
Has anyone ever realized just how ambiguous that is? Here are the ways it could be ...
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