Timeline for Will the gold "Great Answers" badges be removed after the deletion of popular questions?
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| Dec 29, 2010 at 23:51 | comment | added | user142852 | @VonC I agree, and in an ideal world... | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 23:44 | comment | added | VonC | good point about exploring the profile. I would simply argue that this exploration (which is always needed to make sense of the actual quality of a user's answers) would be easier without any of the extra badges referring to "toxic" questions (as opposed to badges which refer to legitimate but since deleted questions). | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 23:37 | comment | added | user142852 | @VonC you have a fair point... I see exactly what you're getting at (that that user box ought to mean give or take some error a measure of your commitment to SO and the community's rating of your feedback, not 250 rep cause you got upvoted 25 times for posting a link to xkcd). They would indeed be badges without any evidence. However, I might well look at other questions they've participated in. Just take a few random answers and questions and you get a good feel usually. | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 23:25 | comment | added | VonC | how wil you be able to ascertain the quality of the answer (which could actually be brilliant) to the "joke" question since it is no longer visible (except for 10K users)? So to judge the qualification of a SO user, you would have to carefully sort out the legitimate badges from the "ghost" ones (the one pointing to some question you don't see anymore). At this point, those badges could be considered as "noise", no? | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 23:16 | history | answered | user142852 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |