Questions tagged [tag-badges]
For questions about the badges awarded for specific tags.
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What are the badges I can earn on each site, and what are the exact criteria for earning each badge?
Formerly List of all badges with full descriptions.
What are badge name's requirements?
Why didn't I get badge name (right now)?
Which badges can I earn multiple times?
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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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No bottom lines for last row of tags in next tag badge popup
In your profile you can track your next tag badge.
In some cases there are not bottom lines for tag blocks in next tag badge popup:
Animation with scrolling popup content:
Reproduced on iPad Pro 11&...
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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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Improve readability of the "next badge" tracker
In What is meant by "n/m score" and "p/q answers" in profile activity page in Summary box? I asked about the meaning of the "n/m score" and "p/q answers" items ...
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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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Is there skill endorsement in Stack Exchange sites?
Have Stack Exchange sites considered skill endorsement for their users?
I have seen that users get badges for the tags they used according to the upvotes they have received in the posts that use the ...
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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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Printable badges
It would be nice to have PDF-printable tag badges, sort of certification style. For example, it took me years to collect a gold for a certain tag and I am really proud of it, so I would print and ...
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Should question scores count toward tag-badges on Meta sites?
Throughout the Stack Exchange network, tag-badges are earned by receiving upvotes on answers to questions with the relevant tags. This is (IMHO) the way it should be for the main sites – each of those ...
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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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Tag badge not found in "Next tag badge" [duplicate]
I am trying to select a tag badge that I wish to track with the Next tag badge cog on my profile page.
The particular tag I am interested in tracking is not presented in the list, nor does it show up ...
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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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Display statistics/have subject badges for accepted answers
Update to clarify what I'm asking for (based on discussions on a few other questions there seems to be conflation of two distinct things). I'm not interested in badges for answers that I have accepted,...
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Tag badges are re-awarded for some users
Across the network, users are reporting cases where tag badges are re-awarded:
Re-earned all my tag badges at once (Role-playing Games)
Tag badges "re-awarded"? (Mathematics)
Why were all ...
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Was there some special "badge" awarding moment tonight? [duplicate]
Logged in today, and saw this:
Note: no upvotes today, but 6 badges earned?
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Recent change in tag-badges style doesn't look good in dark mode?
I think there's been a recent change to tag-badge styles in dark mode that in my opinion makes those badges look less appealing that they used to. I recall tag-badges used to have a deep dark look to ...
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Should the requirement for 100 questions in a tag for tag badges be removed?
Inspired by a poor soul who wanted a my-little-pony badge.
waffles describes this here as an anti-gaming feature. However, I'm not sure if that's necessarily true. If anything, it seems to me that ...
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Tag badge progress
https://stackoverflow.com/badges?tab=tags
It would be nice if for each badge to have some indication as to how close you are to earning that badge. Any chance of this being introduced?
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Tag badges awarded out of order: quirk or glitch?
About a week ago I hit the criteria for SE Music Practice & Theory's sheet-music bronze badge.
Yesterday I hit the criteria for the site's harmony bronze badge.
Today I received the harmony badge, ...
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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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Which questions count for the purpose of tag badges and dupehammer for the tag synonyms?
I have noticed that if two tags are synonymized then in the master tag only the questions/answers which actually have this tag are counted in the list of top users. The posts with the other (...
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Tag badges - high relative effort for low reward on low traffic tags [duplicate]
This is a mild annoyance for me. I answer SO questions inside a very specific area. The tags which I answer in the most are very low traffic, and yet I still require 100 up-votes for a bronze badge.
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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 did I just receive a tag badge if there were no recent upvotes on that tag and no edits to add that tag to prior answers?
Yesterday (14 October) in Music: Practice and Theory I received the bronze modulation tag badge. Yet a look at my reputation shows that I haven't received any upvotes on answers for modulation-tagged ...
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Next Tag Badge Selector doesn't show all available choices [duplicate]
There is no way to choose some tag badges even though ones with equal or fewer votes are choosable some are simply missing.
Notice that I can choose to track philosophy but not explainable-ai or ...
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Tag-badges exploit [closed]
Like everyone else I've been reading bobince's outbreak about parsing html with regex with great amusement. When I read in the comments that bobince had been awarded two gold badges (html and regex) ...
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User is tracking tag badge for non-existing tag with emoji
This user on Meta Stack Overflow is tracking their next tag badge, for a tag that does not exist. It's the dragon emoji:
They're doing it on Stack Overflow too. I doubt the tag ever existed; given ...
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How long does it take to mint a new tag badge? [duplicate]
I just got a tag badge on [linguistics.se] as the first user for that specific tag. It took surprisingly long from fulfilling the criteria to receiving the badge. So my question out of curiosity: How ...
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Why don't tag synonyms count towards the tag questions count? (+Bug?)
A couple weeks ago I was tidying up the tagging of glacier-related questions on Earth Sciences SE.
The number of questions with the [glaciology] tag is currently 102 according to the search result ...
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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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What are tag badges? How do they work? [duplicate]
My question is specifically for badges in a particular tag. I've heard that the rules have been changed.
How and when can one get bronze, silver and gold badges for a specific tag, say stackexchange?
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Tag scores are not updated and the issue is getting worse
Tag scores update is supposed to happen at 03:00 UTC every day. Tag scores are updated by a scheduled job that is time consuming and often times out (see for example the answers for Tag info not ...
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Why are accepted answers not included in the tag badge calculation?
For the 400 votes tag badge, does it take into consideration answers marked as the accepted answer? The description indicates it does not.
I would think an accepted answer would be worth more, or at ...
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The numeric indicators for tag badge progress have been removed; by design? [duplicate]
Within the Activity section of the (new) user profile pages is a Next tag badge: section.
Within this one used to have both "progress bar" and numeric indicators. Now only plain progress bars without ...
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Badge icons on the 'top tags' section of the user profile are moved into new lines
The picture is from this profile, though it appears for almost everyone with tag badges for things on that third row of tags: the badge itself is moved onto the next line when the tag name is long. ...
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Score/Answer, for any tag badge explanation [duplicate]
I am an active answerer in the Swift, iOS, and Swift4 tags.
I am trying to get a badge of one of those, currently sitting on Swift tag with those stats:
19/100 score
39/20 answers
I have 800+...
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Wrong description for abstract badge tag
The hint on badges page has "Bronze/Silver/Gold Badge" instead of some particular badge's name.
bronze badge: Earn at least 100 total score for at least 20 non-community wiki answers in the Bronze ...
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Add square brackets around tag name
This post inspired by discussion on meta.ruSO and initially was only for localization purpose on ruSO. Now I think that this idea could be useful (or at least should be discussed) for entire Stack ...
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Can the descriptions of tag badges be updated to describe the privileges conferred by gold tag badges?
Gold tag badges come with some moderation privileges:
Gold tag badge holders can unilaterally close questions with the corresponding tag as duplicates of other questions.
Gold tag badge holders can ...
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Problem with tracking tag badge
On my profile, when I try to edit the tag badge I am aiming for, there is only one tag option. Do you need to unlock other tags?
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Implement the reopen-hammer for non-duplicates
It can take too long to reopen a sufficiently improved question on many sites in the network. This is discouraging to new users that have taken the time to consider feedback and make improvements as ...
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Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders
In order to increase the efficiency with which poor quality questions are closed, it could make sense to have weighted close votes for a small subset of qualified users.
A very good way to measure ...
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Report on number of votes that you got on each tag
It would be nice to have a report showing how many up and downvotes you got in each tag. For example:
java: 134 upvotes, 10 downvotes
perl: 100 upvotes, 8 downvotes
hibernate: 50 upvotes, 4 downvotes ...
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Wrong x-position for next tag popup
Looks like the x-position of the popup for next tag is wrongly calculated in the user profile page:
Popup’s ^ part should be anywhere under the tag, not the outside of it. It was fine before, you ...
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Next tag badge progress is not aligned properly in mobile web
The next tag badge in the user profile page (activity tab) is not aligned properly:
I think it should be centered horizontally on the page.
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How can I track tag badges in my profile?
On Stack Overflow, I would like to track my progress toward the SQL badge on my profile.
I can't figure out how to specify in my Profile → Activity tab → Badges section → Next Badge the 'SQL' tag I ...
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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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