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You had more than X questions marked as a duplicate of your question.

Could have bronze, silver and gold versions depending on X. Suggestions for names:

  • Patient Zero
  • Columbus’s Egg
  • Dibs
  • Did It First
  • Naked Emperor Spotter
  • Xerox PARC
  • Jango Fett
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    Last thing I want is anything named "naked emperor spotter" tied to my account, but otherwise this seems like a great idea.
    – Undo
    Feb 25, 2015 at 16:57
  • Added another one. If you know computing history you know why this applies. OK, it may not be admissible to name a badge after a company, or it may be too obscure.
    – JCCyC
    Feb 25, 2015 at 16:59
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    What behavior does this encourage though? Congratulations, you were the lucky one that asked this question first? The opposite badges make sense because we want to encourage users to close duplicates, but this badge seems more based on luck. You can't know that people are going to keep asking the same question in thw future, and there's no real behavior to encourage here. This sounds like a "badges for the sake of badges" scenario.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Feb 25, 2015 at 17:15
  • "Think outside the box", I imagine. Question things that look obvious and plain to everybody.
    – JCCyC
    Feb 25, 2015 at 17:16
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    @animuson oldest != original. Find a crappy frequent duplicate, write a better version and close the old one as a duplicate of yours. Or just spot a need for a new canonical. Feb 25, 2015 at 17:29
  • What about those who go around closing all other questions as duplicates of theirs because they thought they were the only person able to uniquely, expertly answer it, and it wouldn't do to just do so on an existing, it needed to be under a new question they soft-lobbed?
    – random
    Feb 25, 2015 at 17:30
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    @JanDvorak That is an incredibly rare scenario though. The vast majority of the badges that will be obtained from these criteria will be random questions that just happened to get linked as duplicates. Requiring that the source question be newer than the questions being linked to it would make for more interesting criteria, but I imagine it'd also narrow the scope of the badge to an incredibly small subset.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Feb 25, 2015 at 17:30
  • @animuson newer only + gold + "better than ever before" / "Q&A remastered" / etc? Feb 25, 2015 at 18:05
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    Is the massive amount of upvotes for ridiculously simple questions not reward enough?
    – Doorknob
    Feb 25, 2015 at 18:21
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    Unfortunately, if this were in place, I can see this exchange happening over and over: "Why did you ask this again?" "Well, I thought I had a better way to phrase this question since it didn't get picked up last time." "Yeah, right. BADGE WHORE! DOWNVOTES READY" (cc @JanDvorak)
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Feb 25, 2015 at 19:02
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    @AnnaLear humans are going to suck no matter what SE does. Point taken, though. Feb 25, 2015 at 19:16
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    Requiring a certain positive score on the master question would make this harder to game. Maybe "not self-answered" as well.
    – jscs
    Feb 25, 2015 at 19:58
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    See no need in this badge. You can call it "Bronze random user", "Silver random user", "Gold random user", though. Feb 25, 2015 at 22:25
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    @animuson How does this line of reasoning work when applied to badges rewarded based on views? Aren't those also luck?
    – user234810
    Mar 4, 2015 at 5:28

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