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What is the purpose of the "disciplined" badge?

I don't get the purposes of the disciplined badge. Why would someone delete a good answer where he has been awarded 3 up-votes, and why should he be marked as "disciplined" for doing so? …
Stefano Borini's user avatar
30 votes
2 answers
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Should the Disciplined and Peer Pressure badges be (partially) retired?

The reason why the badge exists is to entice users to delete their bad-quality content and to provide a consolation prize much like the now-retired Tumbleweed badge used to. … Should the Peer Pressure badge be restricted to only answers or retired entirely? What about the Disciplined badge? …
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
15 votes
3 answers
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Badges - Explanation

Disciplined - Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher. (I am confused here. Why would someone delete the post when it has 3 or more upvotes on it? … I forgot my question "Generalist" badge for super user & stackoverflow. I believe it is not in use now.) …
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Badges should reward positive behavior

(at the time the badge was rewarded, it had 0 votes, answers, comments, and 21 views.) This badge encouraged me to post pure noise. … Disciplined Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher This was pretty easy, too. I just deleted an old answer that had 3 upvotes. …
Peter Olson's user avatar
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5 votes
4 answers
256 views

Giving points for each badge earned

So, why not giving each user some reputation points for each badge? … you get a Badge. …
friol's user avatar
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5 votes
1 answer
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Why does Stack Overflow give a badge for "Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher"? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the purpose of the “disciplinedbadge? Isn't it a bad thing? …
Acacio Nerull's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
122 views

Should users be able to state a reason when deleting their own posts?

Sometimes I come across a deleted answer with a positive score, and I'm not certain why it was deleted. … Maybe a moderator thought the answer was better placed as a comment, or maybe the answerer thought the solution wasn't so helpful after all, or maybe he just really wanted the Disciplined Badge. …
PengOne's user avatar
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2 votes
1 answer
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Are deleted posts shown in badge-related lists?

(At least that's what I see in my profile on one site where I have disciplined badge.) … For example, Why "What Stack Overflow is Not" was deleted and How can the "What Stack Overflow Is Not" post be improved?. Based on these posts I guess that Robert Harvey was the author of this post. …
Martin's user avatar
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Can the list of reasons for “Temporary Suspension” be updated to properly reflect all curren... [duplicate]

Why not add that to the list? Past discussions seem contradictory on what suspension summary policy/practice is in 2015 versus 2009. Also, past discussions are quite confusing on this. … ” badge! …
Giacomo1968's user avatar
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2 answers
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Why is there a Disciplined badge? [duplicate]

Why would someone delete a post with a score of 3 or more? …
user avatar
-4 votes
2 answers
176 views

Deleting others' work

I then looked at the OP's page, and he seemed to have gotten a "Disciplined" badge for this action! It does not seem right to me when a person can so easily delete others' work. … That is, no answers were given to these main questions: (i) Why should the OP ever be allowed to delete others' work? …
Iosif Pinelis's user avatar
-7 votes
2 answers
281 views

How to increment number of voted questions and answers

I know that an old question has been around for years so it has accumulated votes over the years but for some tags (maybe with more disciplined users) everything still works as it should. … The point then is: Why don't upvotes and downvotes have the same weight? +10 for an upvote, -10 for a downvote (or at least -5). …
Adriano Repetti's user avatar
-8 votes
2 answers
310 views

Does SE have too many badges?

Some concrete examples: Why is there still a proofreader badge now that we have a plethora of reviewing badges? Why does the Analytical badge still exist? … Why not just transform it into the Informed badge, or issue the Analytical badge for reading the about page instead of the FAQ? Do we need six Stewards? …
gung - Reinstate Monica's user avatar