Timeline for Will the gold "Great Answers" badges be removed after the deletion of popular questions?
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| Jul 21, 2012 at 12:24 | comment | added | anotherdave | Are people being encouraged to answer badly phrased questions to begin with? If so, and they manage to provide a Great Answer, then why take this away from them later on? And if you're not being encouraged to answer bad questions, why have the Reversal badge, which specifically rewards this? Sorry to dredge the thread, just found it via links from the 'Summer of Love' blog post. | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 14:46 | comment | added | tvanfosson | @VonC - I don't really look at reputation or badges as anything other than rewards in a game. From that perspective, a fair game would let you keep any rewards that you accrue though, I suppose, the capricious disappearance of your rewards could be built in as one of the game rules -- sort of like using a bad potion in Rogue. | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 23:22 | comment | added | VonC | @tvanfosson: this is not about the owner of said badges, but about those who will examine those badges (and a head hunter can be amongst them), as Ninefingers's answer illustrates. | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 23:11 | comment | added | tvanfosson | @VonC - that's hard for me to argue personally because badges don't really mean that much to me. I can imagine, though, that a person might care, have a legitimate beef with the rules changing under them, and having something that they do care about taken away. It's probably better to think about their reaction beforehand rather than afterwards. | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 23:08 | comment | added | VonC | @tvanfosson: I don't contest your point at all. Again, we are not talking about questions deleted after 5 votes. We are talking about questions which are purged from any SO/SE site by one person. In this particular context, why keep the associated badges? | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 23:06 | comment | added | tvanfosson | @VonC - You missed my point. Your argument seems to be that it's ok to delete the badge if the question was both deleted and crappy. I'm just saying that for people who played by the rules, got the swag, and both cared and disagreed with it being crappy, taking the badge away might not seem so fair. I don't know that it's a foregone conclusion that you ought to lose something that you earned according to the rules, just because the rules later change. The fact that 5 people agreed to delete it instead of 1 might mitigate this, but why remove a badge earned in good faith at all? | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 22:37 | comment | added | VonC | @tvanfosson: Jeff's site. Jeff's rules. No argument there. I don't agree nor disagree with his decision. I just point out the badge issue (since the reputation can be recalculated at will). | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 22:29 | comment | added | tvanfosson | @VonC - what about the case where you don't agree with the person who deleted the question -- and most of these are being deleted by @Jeff alone, not the community -- about the "crappiness" of the question? | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 22:23 | comment | added | VonC | We are not talking about any question here (in which case, I would agree with you that keeping the badge could make sense). We are talking about questions so crappy they are deleted. Does it make sense to keep any badge associated with such "toxic" questions? | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 22:19 | history | answered | tvanfosson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |