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Another funny situation with the Populist badge

There's been a number of these noted, but I'm not sure this has been covered. There's a question with an existing answer with +23 votes, because hey, it was a good answer. Another answer comes in, ...
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Add "self answers can't earn populist badge" rule to populist badge description (and venting)

I've been wondering why I didn't earn a Populist badge for this answer and only after digging through meta did I find that there's actually an extra rule, not documented on the badge page, that self ...
DougW's user avatar
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Can/should a user earn Populist over his accepted answer? [duplicate]

I just came across a question where a user posted two answers, one of which was accepted. Now, I'm not saying there's anything wrong — the answers are far and above outstanding; see them for yourself! ...
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What downvoted questions on SO, or Programmers.SE are worth looking at (for non-Meta reasons)?

Are there any downvoted questions on Stack Overflow (or Programmers) that are worth looking at for non-meta reasons? To see where I'm going with this, think along the lines of the Populist and ...
makerofthings7's user avatar