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32 questions linked to/from New three-tiered badge idea: Explainer →Refiner → Illuminator
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Explainer badge understanding [duplicate]
I was recently awarded the Explainer badge. I tried searching for more information on this badge, but I still do not understand why I have been awarded this badge? Can someone explain how I received ...
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Do self-answered questions count as progress towards the Explainer, Refiner, Illuminator badges? [duplicate]
I tend to answer my own questions if they remain unanswered for some time, and I wondered this:
If I edit my question within 12 hours before or after answering it, like I do with others' questions, ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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Empowering tag-badge holders part II - let's look at silver?
Not long ago, we gave folks that have a gold tag badge the ability to instantly mark a question as a duplicate of another. This has worked out exceptionally well in practice. While there have been ...
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Should we make the Red Baron hat trigger a permanent badge?
During Winterbash 2014, there was a hat called Red Baron, which was earned by giving an answer scoring 5 or better to question that had a score of −3 or worse at the time of answering and later rose ...
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Help us find duplicates efficiently
I have recently started using a new device and I am discovering
Just how immensely helpful the various browser caches are on my earlier device for locating duplicates
just how erm, poor the Closing->...
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Does it look good to edit the question you're answering?
I have a question about editing practices:
Does it look good to edit a question you have just answered?
For example: say I had just answered a question, then saw that the question had some minor ...
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No gold badge for revival/necromancer/… pattern?
I recently answered a question that was several months old, and my answer was accepted. I thought this would earn me a badge, but upon looking, realised the badges were issued for upvoted answers, ...
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Undone edits disappear from revision history
I'm reporting the following bug per Shog9's request.
Consider the following scenario:
You edit any post on a SE site where you have edit privileges.
In a second edit within the grace period of the ...
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Delay in approval leads to missing out on being awarded an "Explainer" badge
I am not sure if this is a bug or a design error, but I came across this issue on Robotics. I assume that the same code is employed across the various SE sites, so I am posting my question here.
I ...
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How do people answer questions so quickly?
Even on the least active SE site I use people always provide answers before I've even finished searching to make sure it's not duplicate and is properly tagged/marked up. How is this possible? Are ...
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Boost duplicate post search results by incoming link count
When you try to close a post as a duplicate, you are given the opportunity to search for the dupe target.
Still, searching for that dupe target you know exists is hard and more often than not I have ...
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What's the point of getting hats at the end of the year?
As we know, every year before Christmas, we are able to collect some hats. Although it's interesting to get various hats, my question is what's the point?
Are they gonna turn to reputations or some ...
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Can I opt out from obtaining specific badges?
I would like to ask whether I can opt out from obtaining badges that I consider ridiculous (yes, this has something to do with the new triplet). Or maybe opt out of all the badges since they are ...
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Explainer badge not awarded
I recently answered and edited a question, but didn't receive an explainer badge.
I found a couple of questions from people who appeared to have the same problem as I do, but in the end it turned out ...
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