Neither at stackoverflow.com nor at serverfault.com nobody has ever earned the
Generalist badge.
How many different tags do I have to be active in to earn the Generalist badge?
asked Jun 28, 2009 at 9:52
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now implemented! see description for how it works.
Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags.
for more detail:
https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/generalist-badge-implemented/
answered Jun 28, 2009 at 10:07
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4What does "15 total score" mean? 15 upvotes? 15 reputation points?– PekkaCommented May 23, 2010 at 9:04
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::snort:: I note that everyone who got it in the initial awarding pass has at least 10k rep...well one exception on SU with 7k. Commented May 23, 2010 at 9:39
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@Questions, score generally means upvotes - downvotes, I think.– YOUCommented May 23, 2010 at 9:47
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5<me> off to answer a bunch of beginner, subjective questions about best-practices ... :)– wafflesCommented May 23, 2010 at 9:50
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4Yeah, and I suddenly remembered that I have a lot of wisdom to dispense in the .NET tag. I mean, I spent an entire afternoon trying to install the .NET runtime once, that has to count for something, right?– PekkaCommented May 23, 2010 at 10:46
I think that badge might need to be promoted to gold, or its threshold lowered. If it goes gold, then a silver badge could be created with a lower threshold and called something like "Versatile".
answered Jun 28, 2009 at 9:58
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See also this question which is tagged "status-planned" meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4916/… Commented Sep 9, 2009 at 16:38
I think an issue with implementing the generalist badge is determining what is general. The simple idea of earning it for earning the tag badge in multiple badges I think has a flaw because so many of the badges are related. If you earn the c# badge, it doesn't really make you a generalist to earn the .net badge. I would argue it wouldn't even be much of a generalist if you also earned the VB badge, there's just so much overlap. I really like the concept, but I'm really not sure how it could be quantified.
answered Jul 7, 2009 at 16:09
It think it should be possible to cluster the tags so that concepts such as .NET and the CLR various languages etc end up together. I could see similar clusters appearing for databases, algorithms and other languages. The badge could then be implemented by saying something like 'you must answer 5 questions with at least 5 upvotes from 3 or more subject areas'.
How does the tag cloud currently work? Does it look at groups of tags?
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1Hard to maintain, though - since tags are user-generated. Commented Aug 31, 2009 at 11:42
Perhaps it could be awarded if you get two of the "tag" badges? (The "Earned 400 upvotes for answers in the .net tag" ones)
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1The problem with that specific scenario is that there is a lot of crossover in .NET; for example, anyone with C# pretty much has .NET; likewise, Jon was very amused when he got his VB silver... as someone who occasionally prods VB with a long barge pole called Reflector ;-p Commented Jun 29, 2009 at 9:54
Please see my suggested implementation for Generalist for an initiative to get this in place.
I do like the site that tells you your progress towards generalist on any of the stackexchange sites (even if it does have a bug in not counting tags that you have scored exactly 15 on as counting towards generalist).
