So? The user has visited every section of the FAQ. With the help of a browser, sure, but that's necessary anyway, unless you go and read the server's disks with a magnetized needle like a real programmer. (It might not work so well.)

I propose that in order to expand each section of the FAQ, you must solve a captcha. That will ensure that a human being is doing the expansion.

Well, you did say you wanted to make visiting every section of the FAQ more difficult.

The point of this badge is to get people to read the FAQ. If they're going to go out of their way not to read the FAQ, there's nothing you can do.

Ok, there is: you can do a reading comprehension test. Or at least a reading test, like AT&T Research does when you want to download ksh. I'm not sure how well that would work, but this (unlike the previous one) isn't a ridiculous idea.

Warning: this answer contains an instance of irony. It also contains an instance of sarcasm.

So? The user has visited every section of the FAQ. With the help of a browser, sure, but that's necessary anyway, unless you go and read the server's disks with a magnetized needle like a real programmer. (It might not work so well.)

I propose that in order to expand each section of the FAQ, you must solve a captcha. That will ensure that a human being is doing the expansion.

Well, you did say you wanted to make visiting every section of the FAQ more difficult.

The point of this badge is to get people to read the FAQ. If they're going to go out of their way not to read the FAQ, there's nothing you can do.

Ok, there is: you can do a reading comprehension test. Or at least a reading test, like AT&T Research does when you want to download ksh. I'm not sure how well that would work, but this (unlike the previous one) isn't a ridiculous idea.