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I think a high negative score in a question shows an interest. It could deserve a badge!

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    Badges are to encourage good behavior. Getting something heavily down voted is only very very rarely something that comes out of good behavior. We shouldn't be encouraging people to write crap (the 99% case) (or fail to do the proper research to see if the question already exists) to get another badge.
    – user213963
    Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 15:46
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    Ahh - I see what you tried to do here sandoval31 :-)
    – Rory Alsop
    Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 15:56
  • @Rory Alsop Yes, obviously, in the stack Exchange world, laws are retroactive! :-)
    – sandoval31
    Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 16:02
  • Hahaha. U made my laugh dude due to the question score and due to the question topic.
    – Greg
    Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 16:21
  • @Greg At least I could deserve a badge for a funny question...
    – sandoval31
    Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 16:23
  • @sandoval31 you definitely earn it. I up vote for that.
    – Greg
    Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 16:24
  • How about a special all-season "dunce hat" mandatorily placed on your avatar for a week?
    – goldilocks
    Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 17:26
  • Here, have a badge.
    – M.A.R.
    Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 18:18
  • If this question was [status-approved], you would get a badge for it.
    – mathlander
    Commented Aug 9, 2023 at 3:15

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The tooltip on the downvote option states:

This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful.

Once a badge exists then people will try to collect it. I don't think purposely asking terrible questions is something that should be encouraged and / or rewarded.

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  • I partially agree with that answer. Meanwhile, I think there is several badges which exist without anybody really try to get it deliberately. What about "tumbleweed", "unsung hero" ? For me, it is that kind of badges which makes stack exchange fancy and funny. If the only latitude is to be the best citizen, that is of no interest to me. We are not machines.
    – sandoval31
    Commented Feb 2, 2016 at 8:49
  • @sandoval31 Those may be fun badges, but they don't encourage bad posts. It's incredibly hard to get the Unsung Hero badge. And the Tumbleweed badge requires posting something still on-topic and good, but one that nobody is really able to answer. (Maybe a very niche topic or something).
    – JonW
    Commented Feb 2, 2016 at 8:54

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