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About 36 hours ago, I reached the threshold for the bronze tag badge for formal-languages on cs.SE (see here for the current standings). However, I have not yet been awarded the badge. Earlier posts suggest that some lag is normal, but apparently some (UTC-)overnight process should do the job, of which two should have run since then.

Somebody suggested in chat that synonyms may be the reason. And true enough, there is a synonym fl.formal-languages. As far as I can remember, that tag has never existed on cs.SE (therefore no merge); it has been created purely so that thus tagged questions migrated over from cstheory.SE are tagged nicely on cs.SE without us having to lift a finger.

I could track down four answers with 16 upvotes on questions that took this migration path; that's not quite enough to explain the effect (as I have 117 upvotes in total and received no votes today yet). But then, I can not look deeper into this; maybe somebody did tag a cs.SE-original question with the synonym?

I expect that deeper analysis of the issue (what stuff was flagged how when, exactly when did I reach the threshold, ...) needs more than mere mod powers. So, is there something to this or am I just not patient enough?

Edit: Morning of May 25th: two votes on formal-languages on the 24th, another night gone by, still no badge.

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The tag itself doesn't qualify yet, there aren't enough questions tagged "formal-languages" (81 right now). According to What are tag badges? How do they work?:

A tag must appear on a minimum of 100 questions to be considered for tag badges.

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  • Doh. It's even on the badge page: "If enough votes are earned in a tag with 100+ total questions, the badge will be automatically created and awarded." My mistake.
    – Raphael
    Commented May 25, 2012 at 9:28

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