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As you can see in the picture, I have 13 out of 5. But it's been like this for about two months! What's the reason for that?

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  • Most likely you have many (about 5) questions that have been downvoted and deleted (hence not visible in your profile anymore) and as explained here, it cause the badge not to be given. When you will ask more questions that will get positive score, you will eventually get the badge
    – Shadow Wizard Is Sad And Angry
    Aug 9, 2015 at 7:56
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    So is it a bug on stack if don't reduce these numbers by deleting or downvoting? However I haven't removed or downvoting question more than one or two as you can see on my questions list...
    – Siamak Ferdos
    Aug 9, 2015 at 8:09
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    You've a number of deleted, downvoted questions per my answer so it's highly unlikely there's a bug here.
    – Robert Longson
    Aug 9, 2015 at 8:11
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    My mean's if it's right, 13/5, show what? It's an unuseful and untrusted number that is shown me! Am I right?
    – Siamak Ferdos
    Aug 9, 2015 at 8:18
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    13/5 shows you've more than fulfilled that half of the criteria. The other more difficult to describe bit is your problem.
    – Robert Longson
    Aug 9, 2015 at 8:27
  • You can make use of this answer to find out how to check your progress towards the badge
    – James
    Aug 9, 2015 at 12:26

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No bug here.

The Curious badge has two criteria to be awarded:

  1. Ask a good question on 5 separate days
  2. Maintain a positive question record

You did fulfil the first, on 13 days, and that is what you see, but failed the second. It's even clearly stated in the profile when clicking the "Curious" badge in there:

This other answer by Robert covers the whole aspect of why you failed that second criteria and how to fix it.

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    I misunderstand positive question record. I have these questions that I didn't get negative score and it keep positives: (stackoverflow.com/questions/31267833/… enough to get badge?
    – Siamak Ferdos
    Aug 9, 2015 at 8:29
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    I agree it's quite confusing and not simple to grasp, but there is formula as explained in the other answer and in the links it contains. Based on the formula, you have more questions that got deleted, only a mod can actually find them all.
    – Shadow Wizard Is Sad And Angry
    Aug 9, 2015 at 8:43
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    @SiamakFerdos You currently have 7 negatively scored questions, 3 closed questions, and 9 deleted questions. (31 - 7 - 3 - 9) / 31 = 0.39 - You need to have a score of 0.5 to get the badge.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Aug 9, 2015 at 16:36
  • Robert's answer links to yet another "this answer". In there I found some details about the actual calculation (like the "13" in the sample here), which includes deleted (which seem to count for 3 ...), closed, etc (to be subtracted from upvoted questions). And then the OPer of a deleted question cannot see deleted questions anymore after a while either. So that makes it impossible to actually "verify" your own score (the "13" part), and also how many more "good questions" will be needed. Is there any meta.SE question you're aware of to suggest clarifying (visualizing) all this somehow?
    – Pierre.Vriens
    Mar 10, 2016 at 11:28
  • @Pierre I'm afraid there isn't, I did search for such post before posting my own answer.
    – Shadow Wizard Is Sad And Angry
    Mar 10, 2016 at 11:31
  • Merci (oeps: thank you) for the (extremely fast) confirmation (I did some similar searches). So would you agree that it may be an interesting feature request "I" should post (which is what I'm considering)?
    – Pierre.Vriens
    Mar 10, 2016 at 11:33
  • @Pierre sure, go ahead, just try to be as clear and focused on the actual request as possible. Good luck! :)
    – Shadow Wizard Is Sad And Angry
    Mar 10, 2016 at 11:36
  • @ShadowWizard : Done ...
    – Pierre.Vriens
    Mar 10, 2016 at 12:22
  • Cheers @Pierre and thanks for the quick response! :)
    – Shadow Wizard Is Sad And Angry
    Mar 18, 2016 at 21:31
  • Probably this has to be stated in some very clear way in the same pop-up where we see "Curious 13/5". It is indeed very misleading to see that you've completed the criteria (which is only 5 judging from the UI), but still not awarded.
    – scadge
    Jun 15, 2018 at 15:32
  • @Ollie Letting you know that another editor rolled your edit back, because "fulfil" is the correct British spelling.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Sep 11, 2020 at 22:10
  • @SonictheMaskedWerehog ohh. Thank you for notifying me.
    – Ollie
    Sep 11, 2020 at 22:15
  • We should have a progress bar then on our question experience. Like how many more question upvotes do I need to get this badge?
    – Evan Carroll
    Jun 16, 2022 at 6:48
  • @EvanCarroll it's not just upvotes, it's about overall questions status: closed. deleted, etc.
    – Shadow Wizard Is Sad And Angry
    Jun 16, 2022 at 6:56
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You have some negatively scored deleted questions. This one for instance and probably others. You've also one that you haven't deleted.

You could try improving them and then undeleting them to see whether you can rescue them. Alternatively you're just going to have to ask more good questions to balance out the deleted bad ones. See this answer for more details on the calculation.

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