Yearling badge bug for Sneakers O'Toole?

Question

Lookie at Sneakers O'Toole's account (an easter egg test account btw)

You'll notice that he has the yearling badge, yet the yearling badge states "Active member for a year earning at least 200 reputation". He currently only has a reputation of 101 and he has never gotten any reputation from questions or answers. Though he may be considered active since he was seen a few months ago logged in.

Is this just because the user is so old or is this an actual bug in the Yearling Badge checking?

Answer 1

Yearling used to require a mere 100 rep, until I raised a massive amount of heck about it. There's a window of four months or so between when Sneakers was around for a year and when Jeff raised the bar.

So, you could say this is by Popular Demand.

ba dum pshhh

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