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Questions relating to the suggestion or request for one or more new badges

9 votes

Platinum Badges

As other people have pointed out, most badges exist to motivate certain types of behaviors, and platinum badges aren't likely to motivate users any more than the existing badges already do. But setti …
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Can there be a badge encouraging answering a certain ratio of questions?

This general topic, although not a badge specifically, has been discussed extensively in the past. We want to encourage good posts regardless of whether they're questions or answers. Newbies will nat …
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4 votes

Should there be a badge for cheating

It's not a bad idea, but it has been declined. As others have said, what you call a "cheating" badge basically describes the Hacker badge. Well, the Hacker badge "was never implemented and probably wo …
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No gold badge for revival/necromancer/… pattern?

I don't think a "gold necromancer" would bring any additional value to the table. Necromancer exists to encourage people to continue answering old questions instead of focusing entirely on new questi …
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Can we have a badge at each level when all the bronze/silver/gold have been achieved?

Consider Precognitive and Beta on Stack Overflow. Nobody would be eligible for the "all bronzes" badge, and very few would be eligible for the "all silvers" badge. Also, no new users will ever be elig …
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More badges for comments / Bronze and gold versions of "Pundit"

Back in the day, Pundit only counted comments that achieved score of ten, not five as it does today. Maybe we could bring that back for the gold-level Pundit. I always felt bad for people who earned P …
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There's a badge for editing a tag wiki entry but not one for creating a tag wiki entry?

That behavior seems kind of weird to me too, but I'm not sure it's worth "fixing." As time goes by, more and more tags will already have wikis, so it will be harder and harder for anyone to actually g …
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Bronze, Silver and Gold Commitment Badges

First off, you mention SO's tag badges; why wouldn't this hypothetical other SE site's tag badges have the same effect? That said, -1 primarily because it seems to me that these badges would just del …
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3 votes

New badge idea for SE sites: Site Conceiver

-1. These sites are supposed to be about the community, not individuals, and badges are supposed to encourage good behavior. The proposer's name is already highlighted on Area 51, and proposers can …
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Area51 Badge Request: Jack of All Trades

I like this, it made me chuckle. But I don't see what purpose it serves beyond providing people with that initial chuckle. Badges are designed to reward good behaviors, or occasionally to throw a bo …
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