Timeline for Should flag badges be awarded based on auto-helpful flags cast as a moderator?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:48 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 19, 2015 at 16:10 | comment | added | Raphael | Agreed. I think you are missing the point. We'll see what staff has to say, if anything. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 13:56 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Guess we'll have to agree to disagree @Raphael, at least until a dev comes by and clear the confusion and/or proving me wrong. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 13:55 | comment | added | Raphael | Then that's the bug. (Turning it around on you again: if a flag is a flag, why did I not get the Deputy badge two years ago?) | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 13:49 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @Gilles I doubt there is a column that stores whether the user was moderator in the time of flagging in the Flags table. Flag is a flag. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 13:48 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | It's a bug. The intent was that flags cast while being a moderator don't count. This was implemented incorrectly. Also, your guess of the system behavior is surely wrong: Raphael was only unmodded for a few seconds, it's unlikely that the flag badge checks were run during this narrow window. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 13:28 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | Well, you still cast those flags and helped the site become better. When not moderator anymore, it's fair to get those badges as kind of "thank you" token from the system. That said, feel free to start feature request asking to change this behavior. :) (still, it's not a bug) | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 13:26 | comment | added | Raphael | Exactly. So why did I get these badges for exactly those unfair flags after I stopped being a moderator (if only for a short time)? I still call bug. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 13:24 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | @Raphael they are not self approved. Instead, flag cast by moderator is always binding, you can say it's approved automatically by the system. As for why not award the badges to moderators, guess it's to keep the game fair because unlike ordinary users moderators don't have limit to the amount of flags they can cast per day. | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 13:21 | comment | added | Raphael | If self-approved flags count as helpful and towards these badges (which I'm not convinced they should), then why not award the badges also while the user is a moderator? (I assume that this badge-awarding cron job runs more than once every two years.) | |
| Aug 19, 2015 at 13:13 | history | answered | Shadow Wizard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |