Questions tagged [badges]
For questions about the badge system on the Stack Exchange network. Badges are awarded to encourage and incentivize positive community actions within the site.
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Add a bit column for whether a badge is retired in SEDE or a RetiredDate column
It would be nice (for example) to be able to easily filter out badges that are retired when querying SEDE for analysis purposes.
A bit for it would work, or alternatively, a nullable RetiredDate.
Or ...
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How have I not won the #sql tag badge yet?
According to my profile on Stack Overflow:
It looks like this answer alone has earned me 220 points towards the SQL tag:
SQL standard to escape column names?
I'm unclear why I only have credit for 84 ...
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Lost Silver Badges on Stackoverflow [migrated]
I went down from 41 to 39 silver badges on SO overnight.
I cannot see what has gone and activity indicates nothing.
Ideas?
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Why don't I have the Curious badge? [duplicate]
On Stack Overflow, I am tracking the Curious badge:
As you see, it states that I made 7 good questions out of the target which is 5 and it still shows me that I didn't get the badge.
It doesn't show ...
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Badges not showing in the activity tab of the network profile [duplicate]
For example, my network profile:
In the Badge sub-tab of the Activity tab in my profile, it says 'no activity found' as of 04:30 GMT, April 19, 2023. It is quite weird because I was awarded at least ...
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Badge: socratic 103/100 [duplicate]
In an SE section, Physics, I did get a 103/100 in the Socratic badge and, yet, I did not get the badge. What is the reason of that?
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Can the 'you don't have a [class] badge yet' message be synced to whatever badge you're tracking?
I have a feature request to make.
Right now, my Profile tab shows the following on Meta:
Per my interpretation, what this is telling me is: You don't have a gold badge- if you want to get a gold ...
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What is the best (fast but contributive) way to get Strunk & White badge?
As far as know, less than 200 people have a Strunk & White badge here on Meta.
Why there's so few people eligible for this?
Feature-request, is editing 80 posts too hard? Can we reduce this to ...
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Is there any way to hide my badges and reputation from others?
I ask because I believe badges and reputation serve only in creating implicit bias amongst askers when viewing answers and comments, and on the flip-side amongst commenters and answerers when viewing ...
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Only some badges showing available on Stack Overflow profile page [duplicate]
I recently noticed that on the 'select your next badge' SO popup, only very few badges are available in the dialog.
I know quite a few SO users have many, many badges, definitely more than what shows ...
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Don't cut badges too early
Some long-named badges are truncated too early on the profile page when viewed on narrow screens (e.g., on Android Chrome):
Reproducible on Windows 10 desktop Chrome as well:
Could we just display ...
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Why does it still show that I have 7 silver badges?
Five hours ago, I earned the Enlightened badge on Math Stack Exchange, which is my eighth silver badge. However, on my profile page and my posts, it still shows that I have only 7 silver badges. What ...
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Move recommended badge item under the badge progress
There is "Recommended" item in "Select your next badge" popup:
My suggestion is to move that item below the badge progress bar (or even after the badge description). This will ...
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Badge suggestions: Finder, Hunter, and Detective [duplicate]
To encourage helpful dupe-finders (regardless of whether they can close vote or flag), I am thinking of the following badges:
(bronze) Finder: Find a duplicate that gets the question closed as a dupe ...
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Why haven't I earned Yearling badge? [duplicate]
Today I should have earned the Yearling badge on Politics, but I haven't. All conditions for the badge should be fulfilled. I have earned this badge on some other SE sites before and it seems the ...
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Badges tab of the Activity section on network profiles is broken
The 'badges' tab of the 'activity' section on network profiles is broken; it says
no activity found
GlorfindelMod
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Pluralization issue in the Summary tab badge count's tooltip
There is an issue with pluralization in the badge count tooltip in the Summary tab > "Accounts" section.
The tooltip says,
1 gold badges
Can this be fixed?
Screenshot for reference:
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Why do I not have the Talkative badge with 47 messages and several have stars?
I noticed a badge (Talkative) and it seemed to me I should have been awarded it. Especially, since I had been awarded a similar Hat (Verified) during Winter/Summer Bash 2022.
The talkative badge is ...
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More columns for badges in narrow width mode
It seems that badges could be displayed in more columns in narrow width mode. Tested on my iPad.
Below the screenshots to compare:
full width
3/4 width
half width
quarter width
At least one more ...
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Cannot track "Reviewer" badge
I have more than 500 reputation on Stack Overflow and have reviewed twenty–thirty posts in the First questions review queue. Now I suppose I have the right to get the "Reviewer" badge.
I ...
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Is the analytical Badge unretired? Then how is it received at present?
There is
Visited every section of the FAQ (retired)
at these questions Analytical Badge still showing "FAQ" and What is the meaning of a retired badge?
But there is
Visited every section ...
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Are there any questions for which multiple answers have received enlightened badges?
Since the Enlightened badge is awarded to the first undeleted answer that is accepted and has a vote score of 10 or higher, it should be possible for a question to result in multiple Enlightened ...
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Badge achievement message missing [duplicate]
Yesterday I had earned two badges on different SE communities each and normally I would get messages in achievements, but it didn't happen this time for any of the badges. So I'm wondering if this ...
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CS50 Badge count not updated on main Stack Exchange Network site [duplicate]
On CS50, Harvard's "Introduction to Computer Science", free online course I have 4 badges:
On our Stack Exchange Network site it says that I have 0 badges:
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Reverse-Search Option for Badges Missing [duplicate]
Can we readd the feature where we can see how to earn badges in Stack Exchange? Since a recent update I can't find it.
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Nice Answer and Enlightened badges not awarded
Yesterday, this answer of mine got its tenth upvote and it has no downvotes. Furthermore, it is the only answer to its question, and it got accepted. Therefore, I should have earned both a Nice Answer ...
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Which timestamp is used for migrated questions for the Asking Days badges (curious/inquisitive/socratic)?
If a question is migrated, which timestamp is used for the Asking Days badges (curious/inquisitive/socratic)? Original post timestamp or migration timestamp?
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Adjusting the requirements for the Generalist badge so that more sites are eligible for it
"Generalist" is a badge awarded to community members for broad knowledge of a site's most commonly-asked-about subjects. It's earned by providing answers that accumulate 15 total score per ...
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"favorite answer" badges and new descriptions for "favorite question" badges have already been deployed
As part of the bookmarks being turned into "saves" change, the badges associated with bookmarked questions are being updated to reflect the rename, as well as new badges being added for ...
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Incorrect tag badge interface [duplicate]
I just received the Archaeologist badge on Stack Overflow:
When I clicked Track the next one, I was displayed a choice of the tag badges I had made progress in instead:
Then when I clicked on the &...
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Is the alignment incorrect on the tag badge congratulations message? [duplicate]
The congratulations message and icons which are displayed when I receive a new tag badge are top-left aligned in the Summary box on my profile page.
Is this how it's supposed to look?
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Will background requests count as visits for Announcer, Booster and Publicist badges?
Does a request interrupted by cors error count as a visit?
// this one throws a cors error
fetch('https://stackoverflow.com/q/2421911/5089567').then(console.log).catch(console.error)
Does an ...
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SE API forgot how to order badges lexicographically
As of recently, the Stack Exchange API endpoint for listing named badges started to error out when choosing to sort the result set by name. Can this be fixed as soon as possible, please?
Switching to ...
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Vox Populi badge basic-description not accurate enough
The basic description of the Vox Populi badge says:
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day.
It is quite confusing and frustrating when you reach 39/40 for the badge and you cannot vote anymore. (see e.g. ...
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Make full stop usage consistent in badge descriptions
In the Badges page, out of the 80+ badge descriptions, only 5 have full stops, and the others don't have.
The five are: Fanatic, Enthusiast, and the three Tag Badges, it can be seen here:
Can this ...
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Can we preserve the right alignment of usercards in the recently awarded lists of badges [duplicate]
I was browsing the list of recently awarded necromancer badges and noticed that some of the usercards where aligned to the left, instead of to the right. It is obvious that these usercards don't fit ...
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Why did this former staff member get all these badges at once?
I was browsing the list with recently awarded badges for popular questions, when I noticed former staff member Lisa Park getting 9 instances of this badge at the same time.
The description of this ...
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Badge count on Flair lower than last week
I seem to have lost a gold badge and five bronze badges, while gaining one silver, after the latest update of my Flair.
Here are the last five updates of my Flair:
June 29 2022:
June 24 2022:
June ...
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The return of the tag-badges exploit
The tag-badges exploit was an old exploit in Stack Exchange: at the time, a total of 1000 votes across all your answers on a tag would give you a gold tag badge for that tag. This lead to an edge case ...
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Is 7 Socratic badges the current per-site record?
I'm a big fan of the Socratic badge because in my experience, asking 100 upvoted questions on separate days is hard: it requires long-term and consistent dedication, and you learn a substantial amount ...
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Long.strings.with.no.spaces in titles overflow into the right column
On an individual Badges page (for example, Promoter), when a title includes a long string with no spaces, it overflows into the right column (where the user cards are):
It's worse on mobile (Chrome ...
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Badges forgot how to count [duplicate]
When reading a question here on MSE just yet, I noticed this. Instead of the number 15, the badge count is written as a word.
I haven't found any other instance that replicates this.
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Today's podcast mentions that a badge was awarded to a user today, but it wasn't awarded today
Today's podcast, Kidnapping an NFT (June 3, 2022), mentions that today's Lifeboat badge was awarded to user munk, but they were actually awarded the badge on 25th May, 2022.
The most recent badge was ...
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How are badges ordered on the profile page? [duplicate]
I wonder how badges ordered on the profile page:
Is it random? I couldn't see any non-random pattern.
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I already took the census. Why does the 'Census' badge not show on my profile? [closed]
I completed the developer survey, but I did not get the Census badge credited to my account. I took the census while I was not logged in and logged in after the fact. I'm not able to retake the census ...
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Fanatic Badge is not showing right away in profile under "Badges" right after receiving it [duplicate]
After 100 days of consistency I've attained the first gold badge "Fanatic". Now the badge is disappeared there.
Also this my Stack Overflow profile. I don't know what it happened and what ...
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Badge Dates on User Profile should show the Year once the Year is over
In the example screenshot taken from my Arqade user profile summary, I earned the Socratic badge on November 16th, 2021. But all it shows on the summary page is "Nov 16". When I see this, ...
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"Track the next one" window shows tag badges instead of normal badges
(Note: apparently this has been reported already in this answer on the New responsive Activity page, along with at least 215 answers and no feedback on this specific bug.)
I recently earned a badge on ...
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Inconsistent alignment in the badge history for people with long usernames [duplicate]
There seems to be an inconsistent alignment in the badge history for people with long usernames.
For example, in the badge history for the "Necromancer" badge, Sonic and iBug's usernames ...
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Remove 'Autobiographer' from Recent Badges
Until a better method is implemented to prevent spam accounts from seeing the light of day, can we remove either the 'Autobiographer' badge from the Recent Badges list, or, alternatively, prevent ...
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