If I hit/exceed the daily reputation cap on a day, then start a bounty so that my net reputation gain is less than 200, does it still count as hitting/exceeding the reputation cap for the purposes of the Mortarboard, Epic, and Legendary badges?
E.g., if I received 25 answer upvotes and 4 acceptances (totaling 260 received reputation) and started a bounty of 200, would that day count toward those badges even though the net reputation for the day was only 60 and not 200?
I apologize if this is a trivial question, but I'm curious since if it counts against these badges then I think we're motivating the wrong behavior — you're better off not starting bounties on days when you're earning a lot of reputation.