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This answer of mine hit 100 upvotes two days ago, but I haven't received a gold badge for it yet. What gives? Gold badges are all I have to live for, now that my goal of passing Jon Skeet is a wee bit out of reach.
And do not tell me "we don't need no steenking badges".
I only see two +100 answers in your stats, and yet you have three "Great Answer" badges. It seems likely that some of your previous "Great Answers" were migrated or deleted, and until you have more than three "live" +100 answers on the site, you aren't going to get another badge.
Sorry. If it's any consolation, I am in the same boat with "Good Answer" and "Nice Answer", thanks to my (in)famous poll which was migrated here.
According to your profile you have 3 great answer golds. However, looking at your answers, you have (now) 2 answers with 100+ net upvotes. Likely you had 2 other answers that had 100+ net upvotes, but they were on questions that have since been migrated here to meta (Jon Skeet facts and how to get over 200 rep). The system doesn't remove these badges when the question migrates, but the system does correct this as you "earn" more, you only earn replacements first, until you've replaced all the ones that were lost.
Jeff has stated this behavior here.
