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I updated my email on SO, and for some reason now, I've lost 4 silver badges and 10 bronze badges. Not sure what is going on here, does anyone have an idea?

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    did you merge accounts? badges are recalculated when merging, which is one of the few instances where you can lose a badge if you no longer meet the criteria
    – mhlester
    Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 19:38
  • Your tags tab is empty; this usually indicates you initiated an account merge by changing email..
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 19:40
  • I did change my email. How can I recover those badges?
    – Blaine Anderson
    Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 19:44

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Your account history shows that the email change caused your account to be automatically merged into an older one. This causes all badges from the newer account (which got merged) to cease to exist. If you still qualify for them, they will be automatically awarded to you again whenever the respective badge processes run next. Many of them have already been given back to you, but some will take a while. Noteably tag badges, which are only awarded when the tag scores are updated at 03:00 UTC.

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  • That would make sense! Thank you.
    – Blaine Anderson
    Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 19:44
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    If the tag scores are updated at 03:00. That script times out more often than not in Stack Overflow.
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Apr 29, 2014 at 23:05
  • For me it took about 5 min until all badges were reassigned. I guess I was lucky. :)
    – Nemo
    Commented May 3, 2015 at 21:35

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