So I was curious how many people a badge like this would even affect, so I wrote up a Data Explorer query to check it out (hope I got it right): [Users with unappreciated answers](http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/215905/users-with-unappreciated-answers)

Consider the following criteria for each answer to qualify:

- The question does not have an accepted answer
- The answer is the highest scoring answer on the question
- The answer is not community wiki
- The answer has a score greater than zero
- The user did not answer their own question

The query itself also only lists users with at least 10 qualifying "unappreciated" answers. The query also does not take into account the percentages present in the Tenacious / Unsung Hero badge set, nor does it make sure that the post is at least 10 days old like those badges do (we don't need to check for deletion here because deleted posts don't show up in the data dump).

The query will take a while to run if it doesn't remember the results, but it spits out a total of **5,556** eligible users based on those criteria. That's about 3,000 less than the Unsung Hero badge, which means it is a pretty rare occurrence.

**But is that a good or a bad thing?**

I do think that this badge would encourage positive behavior, which is what badges are for. It encourages users to continue answering questions which become the best answer on a question, even if they don't subsequently become the accepted answer. An answer such as this is still useful to the community at large, even if the OP doesn't think so or even just didn't get around to accepting it.

However, we should also consider if there's even a problem to solve, something that the encouragement would benefit. I think in this particular case it's hard to say if the low number means there's a problem that needs to be solved or if there's just not a problem.