Questions tagged [publicity-badges]
Publicity badges are those badges earned for driving traffic to the site. They include Announcer (Bronze), Booster (Silver), and Publicist (Gold).
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View progress towards Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges
I shared a link to a question and now I am wondering whether I am almost going to get an announcer badge.
Can I somehow see which links I shared and how many clicks were on it for the last days?
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Missing publicist badge?
I've had a link on my webpage to one of my Stack Overflow answers for a long time now. For fun, I track it with Google Analytic events, so I know for sure that I've received more than 1000 clicks. Yet ...
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How do I "share" a link for the new badges?
On Stack Overflow, I see a set of three new badges: Announcer (bronze), Booster (silver), and Publicist (gold). Their common description is "Shared a link to a question that was visited by x ...
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How does the Announcer badge work? [duplicate]
I understand that the Announcer badge can be earned if the question is visited 25 times.
But is this only when I share a link to this question in one of my answers, or can I also share the link (with ...
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Booster badge should be golden or easier to achieve
I know it sounds easy to get this badge. After all who doesn't have a Facebook account?
Wrong, 300 unique IP addresses in 4 days is not easy to get, because
a. You don't have that many friends
b. ...
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How did someone get "Publicist" with 27 views?
User Pillum got the Publicist badge on this question with only 27 views...
say what?!?!
Screenshots to prove that it was < 1000 at the time this post is made:
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Anonymize or hash the user ID part of a shared link so users can earn badges for sharing links without any privacy leaks or prank/troll risks
The "share" link underneath a post includes the sharing user's ID for the purposes of awarding the user with Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges in case enough users from different IP ...
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Announcer badge spike
There has been a recent spike in the number of Announcer badges being awarded on TeX.SE. A query on SEDE highlights this:
The last four months saw the occasional awarding of more than one-a-day, with ...
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What "visitors" count towards the publicity badges?
I was just thinking about these badges and how exactly your number of visitors is calculated. Really, this boils down into three key groups which you could gain counts from:
New visitors: Those who ...
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Do shared link to ANSWERS also count for Announcer, Booster, Publicist badges?
The legends for these badges say
Shared a link to a question that was visited ...
But if I share a link directly to the answer, like this one, does it also count for these badges?
BTW, does it ...
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Publicity badges might be taking internal links into account?
I suspect that some bug makes internal linking count towards Publicity badges too.
The badges are said to be:
These badges are specifically for linking to questions like the description says.
The ...
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Suddenly getting "Announcer" badges every few minutes? [duplicate]
The first one was unusual, but not too unusual.
The second one was improbable, but not impossible.
The third one made me ask this...
Is there a bug giving me these all of a sudden?
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View analytics for referral links
Clicking the link button brings up a text box with a referral link of the form /q/[post ID]/[user ID]. The presence of the user ID in this link allows the system to track the number of visits due to ...
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Announcer badge awarded for a question I've never seen, much less shared
Just got a new badge:
That's this question, posted yesterday: How can the defaults of Evergrande, or other Chinese property companies, crash stock markets worldwide — when the CCP has at least $3.4 ...
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How do I earn the publicist badge? [duplicate]
I see "share this link to earn the publicist badge"
Where exactly do I share the link?
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Sequence behind awarding link badges (Announcer, Booster, Publicist) [closed]
I just have a thought on the new link badges:
Announcer - Shared a link to a question that was visited by 50 unique IP addresses in 2 days
Booster - Shared a link to a question that was visited by ...
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Why did I just get the Announcer Badge and the Booster badge?
Today I got both the Announcer badge and the Booster badge for this question that I asked last year.
I don't remember ever sharing a link to it, and it seems odd to me that I would get both badges ...
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Why did I get the Announcer?
Recently (5h ago) I got the Announcer awarded for this question. That's fine, thank you; the only problem is I don't remember to have any activity related to that question, let alone posting the link ...
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How and when does the tracking of shared links work?
My two main questions:
Are all URLs that include your User Id tracked?
Can the visitors who use the tracked URLs have Stack Exchange accounts?
Specifically:
Recently the ability to earn badges for ...
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How does the question page view/hit work?
I got an Announcer badge for a question that has only been viewed 12 times, yet:
Announcer: Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses.
How does the question page view/...
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Award publicity badges for sharing Tag Wikis
This is part 2 of Highlighting the Tag Wikis.
Currently, there are three badges (Announcer, Booster and Publicist) that encourage sharing questions (and implicitly, answers). I suggest that these ...
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Timeframe for Announcer, Booster, Publicist badges
Announcer, Booster, Publicist badges are awarded if the question receives X visits from unique IP addresses with 2, 3 and 4 days, respectively.
Let's say I post a question that does receive many ...
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Update publicity badge descriptions - they work for answers as well as for questions
The 'share a link' badges (Announcer, Booster and Publicist) work for answers as well as questions. This is reflected in the FAQ but not in the badge descriptions:
Can this please be changed to
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Announcer Badge list to show referrers to the question
Profile Badges > Announcer shows the question to which link(s) refer, but
doesn't show the place when the link(s) are located. I recently received Announcer Badge, but I don't remember where I ...
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Order Announcer, Booster, and Publicist posts when you reach a lower threshold
Suppose I shared a link that was visited by 1,000 unique IP addresses, but I didn't have the announcer badge, so I got that one.
In the future, If I shared a link with 50 unique IP addresses hits, I ...
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I received the Announcer badge for a link to a site-meta shared on a hot network question
I received the Meta Academia’s only Announcer badge for linking this question. If I am not very much mistaken, the only place where I shared this question was this comment on a popular question. ...
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Is it possible to get info about where my link was published and where the traffic comes from?
This morning I got the 25-view announcer bronze badge for a question on Arqade. It was a pleasant surprise, since I think the code I wrote for Kittens Game automation was pretty neat and I'm glad that ...
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Visits aren't tracked from referral URLs using answer IDs
The /q/post_id/user_id form used for the questions' sharing/referral links seems to also work for answers. For example, when I go to /q/64030/1 I am redirected to /questions/64018/#64030. I use this ...
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Should "triad" badges scale linearly?
See this answer from lockstep to a question of mine. Should "triad" badges such as Announcer/Booster/Publicist scale in such a way that the number of awarded Bronze# / Silver# is even with Silver# / ...
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Won Announcer badge even without sharing the link externally [duplicate]
A few hours ago, I won an Announcer (Bronze) badge on Ask Different. The message under achievements tab said:
You've earned the "Announcer" badge (Share a link to a question later visited by 25 ...
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Now that internally shared link clicks count toward publicity badges, can we please keep the user ID referral in oneboxed links posted in chat?
I recently posted a shared link to an answer in chat that contained my user ID, in order to try and earn a publicity badge (e.g. Announcer) for sharing the link (taking a chance even if it's unlikely)....
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Can I see where Publicist badges were linked *from*? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Mechanism to track shares
I've recently been awarded Publicist badge a couple of days ago, but I completely didn't notice. It claims I linked to the C++ book question (not a ...
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Per user link limits the utility of StumbleUpon
One of the more effective methods of promoting questions, especially on some of the "softer" sites is StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon is a service that effectively allows you to say "Show me a web page I ...
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Do shared links to one question/answer on multiple outside webpages all count toward the same Announcer, Booster, or Publicist badge?
If I share a link such as this one:
http://christianity.stackexchange.com/q/40032/20394
to a question or answer on multiple outside webpages, are all the incoming visits to this link from all ...
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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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Bronze badge for sharing?
Should we create a bronze badge on the public beta sites for helping to promote good questions from the sites with the new facebook/twitter links? I'm thinking a little encouragement would go a long ...
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Would appending one's user ID to the main url still make link count for the Announcer badge?
While the expectation is that the 'share' url will be used, in some cases one might want to use the longer main url. Would appending one's user ID make such a link count for the publicity badges (...
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Should closed questions qualify for Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges?
I've been running a publicist badge experiment lately.
I think it is safe to say that there is a strong benefit to sharing most of the questions.
However, is it worthwhile to reward users for ...
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Publicist badge query [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
View progress towards Announcer badge
Is there a way to find out how many unique IP queries have been made from the "link" provided under the question?
I was just wondering ...
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Do visits still count against announcer/booster/publicist badges on the original site when a question is migrated?
I just posted a link to one of my favorite SO questions on reddit. After a few hours the question was migrated to programmers. So will my link on reddit keep counting against the badges (announcer/...
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Are Announcer, Booster, Publicist badges given later for answers?
I shared a link to an answer on reddit which also contains my SO id. In 3 days it increased with more than 1400 views which probably could have 1000 unique IPs and surely passed the 25 and 300 unique ...
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Assumptions about Announcer and other related badges
A question I shared a link to received 30 views in three days. However, I did not receive the Announcer badge. I assume the reason is one of the following:
The 30 views were not from different IPs
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Can't see any link button next to a question
I was just reading about the Announce, Booster and Publicist badges and only today did I learn about them. Out of curiosity I went to look for the link button on a question but I can't see any. Do we ...
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Strip user id from shared links within SE posts
Shared links to posts contain user ids to be used for Announcer badges. These user ids are better to be stripped from all these links in SE posts and comments (and perhaps bounty statements), because:
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Why doesn't the "Does this answer your question?" duplicate link include the user ID number?
It seems automatically generated comments such as this:
Does this answer your question? Ramsey-Turan number
don't include the user's ID number. As I understand, people can earn the "Announcer&...
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When is the Publicist badge awarded?
I recently (28 hours ago) submitted one of StackOverflow's interesting questions to Hacker News and reddit, where it was featured on the front page all day. I used the personalized link the site gave ...
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Prevent "Share a link" popup on downvote
I just downvoted a question on Programmers and got the share a link to this hot question to earn the publicist badge popup. It seems to me that a user will not be likely to link to a question (s)he ...
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Got Announcer badge for linking within SE [duplicate]
I just got Announcer badge on Meta Code Golf.
I shouldn't get it :-) I linked that question from the main CodeGolf site. I am 100% certain that I linked this question only within SE. Why would I ...
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Should the Booster threshold be reduced?
This has been asked in the past (e.g. Booster badge should be golden or easier to achieve ) but since that point a few patterns have developed which make the argument stronger.
The Nice/Good/Great ...
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Who earned the publicity badges from a particular question\answer
All of a sudden, I got many, many upvotes on a question and the answer I gave to that question.
The post didn't have new activity lately, so I guess someone shared a link to that post.
Is there a way ...
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