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One side-effect of programmers.stackexchange.com has been to discuss the migration of questions from SO to P.SE.

One side-effect of said side-effect has been the removal (deletion, not migration) of popular questions with no lasting value.
(the final step of a process started in May 2010 with the "The Great Question Deletion Audit of 2010")

• I don't mind seeing them go from SO (I might be slightly upset to see them simply vanish, but that is not what this question is about)
• I don't mind the rep loss (don't care actually)

Problem:
When any visitor will consult my SO account, he/she will see my two "great answers" badges, which refer to the "crappy" question Worst UI You've Ever Used.

I would request those two gold badges to be removed from my account.
Those weren't that "great answers" to begin with.
And they were answering a question so crappy that despite 45K+ views, 264 upvotes and 276 favorites in 26 months, that question has been deleted. Not migrated (and locked). Just deleted.

Note: waffles mentioned that possibility in a comment of his answer to "Why was «What's your favorite “programmer” cartoon» deleted?":

I wouldn't mind stripping a few gold badges

More generally, will all those "great answers" be "readjusted" (i.e. removed), to take into account the deletion of some of those popular questions?

To say that a badge is never removed doesn't seem to make sense in this context.

(Note: that question also applies to other badges:

• gold ones like "great questions",
• silver ones like "guru", "good answers", ...etc )

One side-effect of programmers.stackexchange.com has been to discuss the migration of questions from SO to P.SE.

One side-effect of said side-effect has been the removal (deletion, not migration) of popular questions with no lasting value.
(the final step of a process started in May 2010 with the "The Great Question Deletion Audit of 2010")

• I don't mind seeing them go from SO (I might be slightly upset to see them simply vanish, but that is not what this question is about)
• I don't mind the rep loss (don't care actually)

Problem:
When any visitor will consult my SO account, he/she will see my two "great answers" badges, which refer to the "crappy" question Worst UI You've Ever Used.

I would request those two gold badges to be removed from my account.
Those weren't that "great answers" to begin with.
And they were answering a question so crappy that despite 45K+ views, 264 upvotes and 276 favorites in 26 months, that question has been deleted. Not migrated (and locked). Just deleted.

Note: waffles mentioned that possibility in a comment of his answer to "Why was «What's your favorite “programmer” cartoon» deleted?":

I wouldn't mind stripping a few gold badges

More generally, will all those "great answers" be "readjusted" (i.e. removed), to take into account the deletion of some of those popular questions?

To say that a badge is never removed doesn't seem to make sense in this context.

(Note: that question also applies to other badges:

• gold ones like "great questions",
• silver ones like "guru", "good answers", ...etc )

One side-effect of programmers.stackexchange.com has been to discuss the migration of questions from SO to P.SE.

One side-effect of said side-effect has been the removal (deletion, not migration) of popular questions with no lasting value.
(the final step of a process started in May 2010 with the "The Great Question Deletion Audit of 2010")

• I don't mind seeing them go from SO (I might be slightly upset to see them simply vanish, but that is not what this question is about)
• I don't mind the rep loss (don't care actually)

Problem:
When any visitor will consult my SO account, he/she will see my two "great answers" badges, which refer to the "crappy" question Worst UI You've Ever Used.

I would request those two gold badges to be removed from my account.
Those weren't that "great answers" to begin with.
And they were answering a question so crappy that despite 45K+ views, 264 upvotes and 276 favorites in 26 months, that question has been deleted. Not migrated (and locked). Just deleted.

Note: waffles mentioned that possibility in a comment of his answer to "Why was «What's your favorite “programmer” cartoon» deleted?":

I wouldn't mind stripping a few gold badges

More generally, will all those "great answers" be "readjusted" (i.e. removed), to take into account the deletion of some of those popular questions?

To say that a badge is never removed doesn't seem to make sense in this context.

(Note: that question also applies to other badges:

• gold ones like "great questions",
• silver ones like "guru", "good answers", ...etc )

One side-effect of programmers.stackexchange.com has been to discuss the migration of questions from SO to P.SE.

One side-effect of said side-effect has been the removal (deletion, not migration) of popular questions with no lasting value.
(the final step of a process started in May 2010 with the "The Great Question Deletion Audit of 2010")

• I don't mind seeing them go from SO (I might be slightly upset to see them simply vanish, but that is not what this question is about)
• I don't mind the rep loss (don't care actually)

Problem:
When any visitor will consult my SO account, he/she will see my two "great answers" badges, which refer to the "crappy" question Worst UI You've Ever Used.

I would request those two gold badges to be removed from my account.
Those weren't that "great answers" to begin with.
And they were answering a question so crappy that despite 45K+ views, 264 upvotes and 276 favorites in 26 months, that question has been deleted. Not migrated (and locked). Just deleted.

Note: waffles mentioned that possibility in a comment of his answer to "Why was «What's your favorite “programmer” cartoon» deleted?":

I wouldn't mind stripping a few gold badges

More generally, will all those "great answers" be "readjusted" (i.e. removed), to take into account the deletion of some of those popular questions?

To say that a badge is never removed doesn't seem to make sense in this context.

(Note: that question also applies to other badges:

• gold ones like "great questions",
• silver ones like "guru", "good answers", ...etc )

One side-effect of programmers.stackexchange.com has been to discuss the migration of questions from SO to P.SE.

One side-effect of said side-effect has been the removal (deletion, not migration) of popular questions with no lasting value.
(the final step of a process started in May 2010 with the "The Great Question Deletion Audit of 2010")

• I don't mind seeing them go from SO (I might be slightly upset to see them simply vanish, but that is not what this question is about)
• I don't mind the rep loss (don't care actually)

Problem:
When any visitor will consult my SO account, he/she will see my two "great answers" badges, which refer to the "crappy" question Worst UI You've Ever Used.

I would request those two gold badges to be removed from my account.
Those weren't that "great answers" to begin with.
And they were answering a question so crappy that despite 45K+ views, 264 upvotes and 276 favorites in 26 months, that question has been deleted. Not migrated (and locked). Just deleted.

Note: waffles mentioned that possibility in a comment of his answer to "Why was «What's your favorite “programmer” cartoon» deleted?":

I wouldn't mind stripping a few gold badges

More generally, will all those "great answers" be "readjusted" (i.e. removed), to take into account the deletion of some of those popular questions?

To say that a badge is never removed doesn't seem to make sense in this context.

(Note: that question also applies to other badges:

• gold ones like "great questions",
• silver ones like "guru", "good answers", ...etc )

One side-effect of programmers.stackexchange.com has been to discuss the migration of questions from SO to P.SE.

One side-effect of said side-effect has been the removal (deletion, not migration) of popular questions with no lasting value.
(the final step of a process started in May 2010 with the "The Great Question Deletion Audit of 2010")

• I don't mind seeing them go from SO (I might be slightly upset to see them simply vanish, but that is not what this question is about)
• I don't mind the rep loss (don't care actually)

Problem:
When any visitor will consult my SO account, he/she will see my two "great answers" badges, which refer to the "crappy" question Worst UI You've Ever Used.

I would request those two gold badges to be removed from my account.
Those weren't that "great answers" to begin with.
And they were answering a question so crappy that despite 45K+ views, 264 upvotes and 276 favorites in 26 months, that question has been deleted. Not migrated (and locked). Just deleted.

Note: waffles mentioned that possibility in a comment of his answer to "Why was «What's your favorite “programmer” cartoon» deleted?":

I wouldn't mind stripping a few gold badges

More generally, will all those "great answers" be "readjusted" (i.e. removed), to take into account the deletion of some of those popular questions?

To say that a badge is never removed doesn't seem to make sense in this context.

(Note: that question also applies to other badges:

• gold ones like "great questions",
• silver ones like "guru", "good answers", ...etc )