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I propose the Articulate badge, to be awarded for posting [n] questions which

  • remain up for [given amount of time]
  • receive no edits
  • receive at least one up-vote
  • receive at least one answer with an up-vote

Basically, a reward for perfect presentation. This will encourage well-crafted questions, which are valuable because:

  1. They help the poster to Ask the Duck.
  2. They elicit good answers.

Negatively, this could promote spurious editing with the malicious goal of preventing someone else from receiving the award. Spurious editing is actively discouraged so perhaps we're safe.

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    Sounds related to those badges, so I don't think we need yet more of these. Nice idea though.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented May 18, 2016 at 17:34
  • By "remain up" do you mean that they are not put on-hold? (or perhaps not deleted?)
    – user642796
    Commented May 18, 2016 at 17:39
  • By "remain up", I mean they're valid questions - not put on hold, not deleted. And they've had time to accrue edits.
    – Smandoli
    Commented May 18, 2016 at 17:49
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    Oops! Fairly close duplicate of meta.stackexchange.com/q/36154/259449. And, the downsides are well discussed. I will delete this post pretty soon.
    – Smandoli
    Commented May 18, 2016 at 17:50
  • Well, you can't delete this now since it has positive-score answer. You can close as duplicate if you really think it is a dupe though.
    – Meta Andrew T.
    Commented May 18, 2016 at 18:39
  • Let's close the other as a dupe of this. That one doesn't include upvotes in the equation, which seems a necessary part of being truly considered articulate. I would also not count edits in the grace period. Not because I use them all the time, just because they're only effective for minor touch-ups, not saving-throw reworkings. Also, you might want to include an accepted upvoted answer as a requirement. If you truly are articulate, then your question is eminently answerable, and that answer will be worthy of praise.
    – user1228
    Commented May 18, 2016 at 18:50
  • @Won't: "Let's close the other..." If the proposals are different, neither is a dupe, so why close the other one?
    – Smandoli
    Commented May 18, 2016 at 21:49
  • @Smandoli eh, they cover the same ground. I'd say the other was incomplete, whereas this is a better version of what the other was attempting to suggest.
    – user1228
    Commented May 19, 2016 at 13:03

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This would probably get awarded to far too many posts that are simply neglected. A question that no one has bothered to edit and doesn't get many views.

Lack of downvotes and lack of edits aren't very strong indicators that a post is well-written.

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