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A minor tweak to the populist badge
The populist badge is awarded to the highest scoring answer with at least 23 if it's not the accepted answer and the latter has at least 11. It can be awarded more than once on the same question ...
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On giving others badges (specifically, Populist)
I recently saw a question on which the accepted answer had 13 votes, and the next answer had 24 votes. It was a relatively old question, so I figured I'd do the next answerer a favor. I downvoted the ...
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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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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 ...
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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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Is the "Populist" badge motivating the wrong behavior?
A while back I provided a very high-scoring answer to https://stackoverflow.com/q/4927230 that is currently three votes away from earning the Populist badge. However, if I down-voted the accepted ...
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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 ...
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Interesting observation - Populist
I was looking at the description of the populist badge (SO) and was wondering, why not make it outscoring theaccepted answer by 2x (or if negative, (accepted answer) + abs(accepted answer)), but not ...
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