This user (not me) has been awarded the Curious badge. Why is the 'Next badge' still showing as Curious badge on this profile?
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2Don't you have to go and pick the next badge manually? What happens if you haven't done that yet? – VLAZ Dec 4 '20 at 9:03
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That is right @VLAZ, if you dont manually check the box there it remains showing the current badge – Luuklag Dec 4 '20 at 9:08
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this not my profile.. – نور Dec 4 '20 at 9:10
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3It was a general "you" as in "anybody", not you specifically. And as Luuklag says - once somebody gets a badge, they have to go and pick the next one manually. Until that point, their profile will just display the "next" badge as the one they've already received. – VLAZ Dec 4 '20 at 9:11
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Does this answer your question? Curious badge bug – Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog Dec 4 '20 at 9:23
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4@Sonic the K-Day Hedgehog no. – نور Dec 4 '20 at 9:25
That's status-bydesign. This is how that widget looks for the owner (except that this is a different badge):
Until they've made a choice for which badge to track next, they will be registered as tracking that particular badge. And this is how their profile will look to others:
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Has it always been this way? Or only recently? I just noticed it a minute ago (see my answer below: meta.stackexchange.com/a/357527/391772), and searched on Meta to see if someone else had asked about it, then found this page, which happened to be from only 2 days ago. Also congratulations on 699 bronze badges! Only one more to go! – user1271772 Dec 6 '20 at 18:49
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It has been so for a long while (perhaps at least 4 years?), I don't remember it having changed. Also, your bug is perhaps a consequence of meta.stackexchange.com/q/263351/295232 ? – Glorfindel Dec 6 '20 at 19:07
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1Good point. I've upvoted one of their questions that had 4 upvotes, so let's see if they get the badge now. It's still a "bug" from a UX or presentation perspective. It seems very incorrect to say: "Progress towards next badge: 6/5" – user1271772 Dec 6 '20 at 19:11
I appreciate Glorfindel's answer and how the system treats this issue "by design" however when we look at TheSimpliFire's profile we see this:
which casual observers will certainly think is a bug.
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1TheSimpliFire doesn't have a positive question record. try to click on the badge. – ppwater Dec 7 '20 at 4:06
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@ppwater Interesting. There must be some deleted questions with a lot of downvotes. After all: "Meta is Murder". However "Progress towards next badge: 6/5" will not look "correct" to most observers. It appears more like a bug than anything else. – user1271772 Dec 7 '20 at 4:17
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2Hmm, true. it'll be great if there is not positive question record, don't suggest it or don't make the badge appear or something. – ppwater Dec 7 '20 at 4:19
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I think that the person hasn't decided the next badge to track yet. Surprisingly, users don't get notified when they completed a badge. – KTrain5369 Dec 16 '20 at 1:21