I'm no longer active on Stack Overflow, but it seems that any time I land on the site there's a notification that I've earned a badge for a question that has become "Popular" or "Notable". It seems literally only a matter of time before I "earn" a gold badge for having a "Famous" question. Is there some time limit or other method to prevent questions from accumulating page views for the life of the site?
More importantly, is this a feature or a bug?
On the one hand, when I see the notification that I got a badge just for not deleting my account, I shake my head and think, "Silly system! Don't you know about the Poisson law of small numbers?"
On the other hand, I actually get a little dopamine rush when I think that my question was one that other people were interested in reading. I feel like I helped someone who was searching for an answer.
On the third hand, who cares?