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I just went over the list of Community Managers and this caught my attention:

Different look and feel, too gray... poor Ana deserves more in my opinion. I went and dug up her combined flair just to see the reason it wasn't used:

You do not have any linked accounts with 200+ rep

True, and generally I totally agree with this but in case of Stack Exchange employee, reputation should not matter or become a barrier.

Can Stack Exchange employees get a colorful flair, even without 200 reputation on a site?

I'm not asking to artificially boost their reputation, but rather to add a check to the code deciding whether to show the flair or not, to check if the user is a staff member, in which case skip the reputation check.

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    The sad thing is that even if she gets a load of rep on MSO it still won't be colourful :-(...
    – ben is uǝq backwards
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 9:21
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    I seem to remember I noticed the inconsistency in the list yesterday, went to replace Ana's MSO flair with network flair, saw the reason it was how it was, discarded the edit.
    – michaelb958--GoFundMonica
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 9:21
  • @ben but when she gets 200 here on Meta at least she can have the combined flair. :)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 9:23
  • @michaelb958 I was about to do the same but on second thought decided to give this a try. Who knows it might work.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 9:24
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    @Sha, that freehand circle is creepy. Are you a stalker of some kind? ;)
    – Frédéric Hamidi
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 9:28
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    That would be unflair.
    – brasofilo
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 9:29
  • Sha, is this no-repro, or did you have a different example: stackexchange.com/users/2415655/ana?tab=accounts stackexchange.com/users/flair/2415655.png ?
    – Rob
    Commented Jul 26, 2020 at 17:56
  • @Rob I asked this almost 7 years ago, Ana got 200 rep since then. But the problem still exists, user without 200 rep on any site won't have global flair, even if that user is a staff member.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jul 26, 2020 at 18:13
  • @Sha, OK no specific example. But what would you suggest that their Flair would be, how should it be calculated? -- If they had 1 reputation on 175+ sites and only visited 50 should they have a Flair of 175 or 50; or would it be 175*200, etc. - or just add what they seem to have, regardless of the value (where some have more than one rep.). --- Some Devs have a few hundred rep over several sites, them too?
    – Rob
    Commented Jul 26, 2020 at 18:25

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No.

Why give someone special treatment when reputation and badges (flair) are the measure of our participation on the sites?

Basically, a dev would have to game the system to make this happen, and AFAIK we play a different (fair) game based on actual achievements that unlocks those tiny-colourful things and its associated numbers.

The diamond is enough to mark a new employee as a special user. The rest is up to her/him.

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    I sometimes see users without a diamond do things like adding moderator only tags, and upon checking it they turn out to be Stack Exchange employees who got special privilege. That's not gaming the system.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 12:01
  • @ShaWizDowArd Sure, but getting rep just for being an employee is. It's also pointless, the diamond grants Ana all rep-tied privileges anyway.
    – yannis
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 13:12
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    @Yannis I don't suggest or ask to give her reputation, just show the combined flair even without 200+ account.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 13:17
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    @ShaWizDowArd Oh, I see. Just got out of a long meeting, I should stay afk until my brain recuperates.
    – yannis
    Commented Nov 18, 2013 at 13:25

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