Timeline for Suggested implementation for Generalist badge
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| Apr 1, 2022 at 1:06 | comment | added | user1136431 | Hahaha, is this still the case chaos and @Mark? :D | |
| Jan 11, 2010 at 21:55 | comment | added | Mark Henderson | There are only FOUR people on SF who have won ANY 'tag' badges (and only 2 tags at that). At this rate nobody will ever get any version of this badge on SF. | |
| Aug 11, 2009 at 16:16 | comment | added | chaos | IMO this is really awful. For one thing, I think you dramatically underestimate how hard it is to get a tag badge outside of the "golden" family of topics centered on C#. I have 25K rep and only just recently got one topic badge, a silver in PHP, and might not have that if I hadn't worked on it specifically. For another, the tag badges reward specialization in popular areas, which seems to me to make deriving a concept of being a generalist from them nonsensical. | |
| Aug 5, 2009 at 20:35 | comment | added | mmyers | I'd call the gold one "Leonardo da Vinci". Or maybe "Jon Skeet", since he already has five gold tag badges. | |
| Aug 5, 2009 at 13:57 | comment | added | David Thornley | One issue is whether we want to reward those with knowledge in obscure (at least for SO) areas. It's a lot easier to get a tag badge in a popular language than an unpopular one. Do we want to reward the ones who are extremely helpful to anybody who's still interested in Snobol or Mac OS 9? (Other than the rep, of course?) Another issue is, as pointed out, correlated badges. Somebody with a C# badge is likely to have a .net, while nothing's quite that correlated with C++ (for example), although mfc and c are going to be there. | |
| Aug 5, 2009 at 2:19 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @cletus: Yeah. That comment was ill-thought out. I meant something more like sticking with number of specialist badges emphasizes the popular tags even more than the badges, because most of the popular tags are in coorelation with at least one other popular tag: C# with .net, c with c++, java with jquery, javascript with html... chaos's proposal reduces this effect. | |
| Aug 4, 2009 at 23:27 | comment | added | cletus | @dmckee: Why? "Generalist" means active in many areas, not active in obscure areas. If you want to reward such activity I think you need a different badge for that. | |
| Aug 4, 2009 at 15:51 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | This heavily favors users in the most popular tags. Generalist is an chance to give some love to people occupying more obscure corners. | |
| Jul 23, 2009 at 13:33 | comment | added | ChrisF Mod | I'm miles off my first tag badge, let alone 5! | |
| Jul 23, 2009 at 13:26 | history | answered | cletus | CC BY-SA 2.5 |