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Gold tag badge didn't allow single-vote duplicate question closure [duplicate]

As a gold badge holder for [the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim] tag on Arqade, I encountered an unexpected issue while reviewing a question in the Close Votes review queue. Despite the gold tag badge ...
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Why are some badges from the "Select your next badge" window not listed on the list of badges pointed on the tour page?

Why does the description of the list of badges on the tour of a SE site does not match the content of the "Select your next badge" information window shown to the user when they receive a ...
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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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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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The main help page for badges should specify that a tag must be on 100+ questions to earn tag-specific badges for it

The description for the requirements to get a tag-specific badge listed on the /help/badges page says (for a bronze badge, for instance): You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-...
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Track badge with conditional views that require improvement

This behaviour was seen in Android 10 using both Firefox version 81.1.5 and Google Chrome version 86.0.4240.99 and in multiple communities. In one's profile, in the Activity tab, there are at least ...
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System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1[System.String] in the badge list page

In the badges page (in every SE site), under Tag badges there's some code: System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1[System.String]: Credit goes to rtx13 and mightyteja (edited out because it was off-topic) ...
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Tag badges aren't awarded if there is already a regular badge with the same name

On Meta Stack Exchange, we have an editor tag with (currently) 440 questions, more than the minimum of 100 for tag badges to be awarded. We also have two users, balpha and Jeff Atwood who have a score ...
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How to find badge of a tag

For example, with Flutter, I have manually go to the tag's top user, and go through there badges, to get https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/7013/flutter (bronze) https://stackoverflow.com/help/...
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Is a gold tag badge holder’s Leave Open/Closed vote binding?

If a question is asked, and a user has a gold badge in one of the tags, the gold badge holder can close it as a duplicate as needed. The user can then re-open it with only one vote. But if someone ...
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Inconsistencies on Tag Badge Counter on some Network Profiles [closed]

I have noticed some inconsistencies on the score I have on several tags in my account on The Workplace. For example: However, the net vote count (as DVs count against you in the counts) I have on ...
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Why can tag badges be lost?

In contrast to usual badges tag badges which have already been awarded can be lost. This does not make a lot of sense to me. Even if your skills within a certain tag are historic and some of the old ...
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Bronze Tag Badge Requirement [duplicate]

I had a question about the requirements for winning the bronze tag badge: You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge. Does this mean I can ...
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Issue badges as open digital badges (Open Badges)

Stack Exchange badges are limited in the sense that they are only easy to view and display on the associated Stack Exchange sites. A user wishing to display their badges to the world generally must do ...
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Make tag badges count questions site-specifically

As asked here, here, and probably a few more places. Tag badges currently only are funded towards by votes on answers. However, on some sites, this is not appropriate. For example, on PPCG, a great ...
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How to achieve a gold tag badge [duplicate]

I am currently following a gold tag badge for javascript, it's description says earn at least 1000 total score for at least 200 non community wiki answers in the tag, what I understand from this is I ...
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Show the badges you can't earn apart [duplicate]

This an extension to a previous question: Don't show Cleanup badge until you can earn it For example: If I can't earn the Cleanup badge, show the badge separated from the others I can earn. And ...
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Got a tag badge — but have not earned it yet [duplicate]

This morning I got the silver twitter-bootstrap badge : ... Unfortunately, I haven't earned this particular badge yet. I have 318 votes on 124 answers. Then wondered if twitter-bootstrap ...
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Tag badges are being awarded incorrectly

On Stack Overflow, I have 428 java questions answered with a total score of 775 as of the writing of this post. However, I was just awarded the Java tag badge. It seems that this is happening to a ...
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How do you acquire the Bronze Badge and Popular Question badge? [duplicate]

Quote from wiki Bronze Badge - You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge. Question Does this mean you have to have a total score of 100 ...
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In the new profile page, why tag badges are not considered to be notable?

Why tag badges are not included in "notable badges" section? I have two notable tag badges (both were awarded only 10 times). But "Informed" (awarded 15 times) is still shown as most notable. I ...
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Question Score not included in Tag Badges

I first realised that the tag count on android is different than on the website. This is due to the fact that the app shows both the answer & question score of a badge. Then I checked the badge ...
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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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In my profile, how can I see all Tags for which I have earned Gold Badges?

I'm trying to find out for which tags I have earned Gold Badges. In my profile I found this section: But this shows a looooong list of tags indicating how many gold badges have been awarded for it in ...
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Weird badge (probably encoding issue)

I've just been granted a badge on http://russian.stackexchange.com, here's the link to the badge: https://russian.stackexchange.com/help/badges/87/?userid=134 It looks to me like this: The link ...
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Seem to have lost 4 Silver badges and 10 Bronze badges

I updated my email on SO, and for some reason now, I've lost 4 silver badges and 10 bronze badges. Not sure what is going on here, does anyone have an idea?
Blaine Anderson's user avatar
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Tag badges don't need a reason

Some badges have a reason associated with them: a link to the post that resulted in the badge, a description of the scenario in which it was earned, etc. Other badges do not: the context is in the ...
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Include badge rank in Badges table on data explorer [duplicate]

I've discovered that there's no way to differentiate between a bronze, silver, and gold tag badge. For example, take this query (run on SO): SELECT * FROM Badges WHERE Name = 'javascript' It returns:...
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Meaningful urls for tag badges [duplicate]

Currently, tag badge urls are "secret". Let's make them "public" (predictable and meaningful). Taking the SQL tag badges as an example: Bronze SQL: https://stackoverflow.com/help/...
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Inconsistent text on user's tag badge page and on tag badge tooltip

See these three pages: Bronze C# tag page Silver C# tag badge Gold C# tag badge All three of them say: Earned at least X total score for at least 20 answers in the c# tag. This same text also ...
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Remove text duplication on tag badges page

If you look at the (bronze) tag badges page, you'll see the following text repeated a few thousand times: Earned at least x total score for at least y answers in the ... tag     ...
Bernhard Barker's user avatar
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Add a new page in Tag to show all users with tag badges

Would it be possible to add a new page to Tags to show all users who earned a tag badge? This could be a link next to top users (see the image below) and show users grouped by the tag badge type (gold,...
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Tag badge not granted in long time, more than a few weeks [duplicate]

I seem to be due a tag badge on pointfree tag for a long time now, more than a few weeks I think, but I've yet to receive it. I'm the first one that made the cut there. Yes, I did retagged many of ...
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Calculation of Score when earning a specific tag badge [duplicate]

Take for example the Linq bronze badge, where the description is Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 answers in the linq tag How is total score calculated? is it based on the sum of ...
Christian Phillips's user avatar
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No menu to navigate to Badges for Tags from Badges page

I found no way to navigate to Help Center > Badges > Tags from Help Center > Badges except Google. Please add the hyperlink back!
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Understanding Tag badges

I very recently earned the below badge. But I am sorry, I do not understand it. It says Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 answers in the java tag. But I have answered 140 ...
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The list of tag badges is all sorts of messed up

I was just browsing through the list of bronze tag badges here on Meta and noticed that some of them get cut off by an ellipsis. I was curious which tags they actually were, but that information is ...
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Disappearing Protovis badge

I happened to notice my bronze protovis badge disappeared sometime recently. (I was perversely proud of it, as the project has been deprecated, so I figured I'd be the only one to ever get a badge for ...
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New badges page is confused about the definition of "unearned"

The unearned list of tag badges on the redesigned badges page shows me badges that I have indeed earned, even going so far as to point them out to me: The relevant tag badges also appear on the ...
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Make tag badges in badges page more accessible

I like the design of the new badges page, but one thing did stand out to me. I noticed on the new earned badges page, tag badges appear just as they would on the all badges page: Obviously, you don't ...
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1 times badge list typo

If you click to the drill down of any of the tag-badges which have been awarded precisely once (there are quite a few in the gold category) you see: "This badge has been awarded 1 times". To pick one ...
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Tag badge IDs don't seem to make a lot of sense

Here's an example of a bronze badge: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/86/status-completed Here's an example of a silver badge: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/47/status-completed Why ...
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category badge threshholds [duplicate]

So if you get 100 upvotes for answers in a particular category you get a bronze badge. eg. https://meta.stackoverflow.com/badges/86/status-completed If you get 400 upvotes for answers in a ...
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Should tag badges have a higher value when sorting on class?

When you have a decent amount of gold/silver badges, silver/bronze tag badges might not be visible on your profile when you sort by class. My own SO profile is an example of this situation; I ...
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Why have I not been awarded the bronze badge for the FINDSTR tag? [duplicate]

I reached 100 upvotes on 30 non-community wiki answers to findstr questions at least 4 days ago. I'm now up to 102 upvotes. But I still have not been awarded the bronze badge for that tag. I've seen ...
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How do I find out how many bronze badges were awarded total per tag?

I'm working on a bronze Javascript badge and would like to know, up until today, how many people total have already gotten a gold, silver, and bronze badge for that tag.
Heitor Chang's user avatar
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How are tag badge votes counted?

I was just looking through my "tags" progress on my profile and noticed some of the numbers don't add up. Take for example the [asp.net-mvc] tag. It says I have a score of 21 over 25 questions. When I ...
Paul Fleming's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
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I lost my JavaScript badge [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do “badges” work? What are tag badges? How do they work? I earned the JavaScript badge a while ago. Today, I earned the jQuery badge, and I see that there'...
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Reduce the required number of non-wiki answers for bronze/silver/gold tag badges to 10/40/100

Before the introduction of bronze tag badges, the only requirement for silver/gold tag badges was 400/1000 upvotes. This permitted a notable Tag-badges exploit, namely, a single answer with 1000+ ...
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How do we know how much up-votes are still needed to get the "C#" tag-badge? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What are tag badges? How do they work? I've given answers of more than 100 questions about C#, and I got more than 100 up votes for those answers. Yet, I don't get the tag ...
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