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Note this is not Why am I getting so many "yearling" badges today? as these are all in the same site.

I'm currently at 8 badges by my count.

notification drop down with 8 yearling badges awarded recent badges awarded on my profile

These are all for Information Security Meta.

Any idea why I'm seeing this? I've earnt it 9 times on the main site, the last of which was Awarded Jul 26 at 22:18. I have visited that meta site today.

Update: I just received my 9th on meta.

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    As to why the badges were awarded one at a time after some delays rather than all at the same time: the script that awards the badge can only award it once, so if you suddenly qualify for multiple, you'll earn it one by one each time the badge script runs.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Sep 24, 2021 at 20:23
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    9 since 26/07/2012, 15:17:55 - Awarded on Meta in the last 8 hours, and on Main once a year (for each 200 reputation earned, when you didn't have ((200*years) reputation) the awarding was delayed).
    – Rob
    Sep 24, 2021 at 23:25

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You didn't have a Security.Meta account until today; this SEDE query doesn't return any results (and it's based on a snapshot from last Sunday). It's far from obvious, but when you create an account on Waffles Stack Exchange, the system doesn't automatically create an account for you on Waffles.Meta; IIRC (but I could be wrong) that only happens when you actually visit the Meta site.

Apparently, the system then creates a 'backdated' account with the same creation date as your main site account. That account is over 9 years old, so eligible for quite some Yearling badges, and the system is now catching up.

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  • That's makes a lot of sense. I had always assumed the meta account was co-creates but I've been wrong before.
    – AncientSwordRage
    Sep 24, 2021 at 19:53
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    I'm really feeling for waffles now.
    – AncientSwordRage
    Sep 24, 2021 at 20:36
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    Where can I find this Waffles.SE you speak of? Are stroopwaffels on-topic there?
    – Joachim
    Sep 25, 2021 at 7:49
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    @Joachim perhaps here?
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Sep 25, 2021 at 17:22
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Your site meta account is created when you first visit that Meta. Since you have 1905 rep on Information Security and you've been active for 9 years you qualify for min(9, 1905 / 200) badges i.e 9.

Your site Meta account does not however have a separate creation date field, the system uses the main account creation date.

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