This cannot be right, can it? It seems that the tracking is not synchronized with the actual badge awarding mechanism. Perhaps there is a bug in the awarding and I should have this badge already, or I am ineligible for it for a reason that the progress tracker is unaware of.
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1@Martin I would not disagree with that closure. Ironically it will make it harder for me to earn this badge without a change to the criteria.– Mr.WizardMar 14, 2015 at 4:40
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Weirdly, after double-checking, the question isn't even technically a duplicate, but that question itself answers yours. I wonder what the closing policies for that are...– Martin EnderMar 14, 2015 at 11:27
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@MartinBüttner If another question is the same, it's a dupe. If another question actually "answers" this one, then it's a super dupe...– JamesMar 14, 2015 at 15:22
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Related: meta.stackexchange.com/q/291497/349538– Donald DuckApr 17, 2019 at 11:55
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This looks weird, ya, but click on the badge itself. You should have the positive record too, while you don't :)
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Hm... of the questions I can still see I believe I easily have a positive record. Perhaps there are more deleted questions than I remember? Is there some way to check that? Mar 13, 2015 at 20:12
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1Ah, I think I have a possible explanation. Are [duplicate] questions counted as negative? I think I have quite a few of those. However I was not aware that these were considered "bad behavior" as I understood them to be useful pointers in the search engine. Mar 13, 2015 at 20:16
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2@Mr.W yes, they do. The algorithm at the link I pointed includes closed questions, and dupes are closed questions too.– nicaelMar 13, 2015 at 20:16