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Badge For Highest Badges Earned In a Day
Badges are supposed to encourage people to
learn about site functions (mainly bronze badges)
provide some reward for doing useful actions e.g. reviews
Trying to get as many badges as possible as ...
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Should there be a "Censor" badge?
I'm taking this a bit seriously and ignoring the rant-ish and frustrated tone. I don't think this is a good idea, because
All of the acts of moderation are voluntary, but some actions require more ...
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Why is there no popular/notable/famous answer badge?
why are there no similar badges for Answers also?
Because view counts are only ever recorded for questions.
There is no reliable way to count answer views (given one usually needs to scroll down to ...
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Badge suggestion: HATER, LOVER, and FAIR AND BALANCED
This site is about posts, not people so we really shouldn't be encouraging targetting of individuals like that. That's only one small step from serial-voting, which is not allowed.
Hater is pretty ...
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New badge suggestion: "Wise helper"
We implement badges to encourage specific behavior here, not just to reward users for random interesting things.
In this situation, the user is already encouraged in a lot of ways to create quality ...
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widely applicable question badge & tab
We already have badges for widely applicable questions:
For questions viewed by many people, we have Popular Question (Question with 1,000 views), Notable Question (Question with 2,500 views), and ...
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Can we get some new badges based on the new "People Reached" stat?
Given how the value of people reached is calculated (details in the stat announcement post) and that by nature it is dynamic - meaning the value can go up or down, and quite significantly at times (...
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Badges for helpful flag streaks
I have a concern about flag streaks that makes me feel like they're probably not in the best interest of encouraging users to flag whenever they feel like it's warranted.
While we definitely want to ...
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A badge for good perplexing questions
Silver: [stumping] or [bewildering] ask a question that receives a score of 10 before getting an answer and is unanswered for at least 3 days.
This badge will be thwarted every time a user or even ...
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Gold or silver badge for multiple daily votes
There are already two other badges that promote voting, beyond Suffrage and Vox Populi: Civic Duty and Electorate. IMHO, the proposed badges do not promote good behaviour anymore than the current ...
GlorfindelMod
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Badge suggestion: Eternal Question / Eternal Answer
I doubt many people would earn this badge organically. Most users know they can't upvote a post twice, and even if they don't, it's clear after the first attempt and they won't try it on another post (...
GlorfindelMod
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Badge for reaching the cap for reputation earned from suggested edits
A badge related to suggested edits would be much harder to obtain after a user reaches 2000 reputation, and impossible after 20k reputation. In every other case, unlocking new privileges offers more ...
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Close-vote badges
Before you have close-vote privileges, you have flag-to-close privileges, and if you're flagging things that end up closed, those flags are marked helpful, which will lead to badges.
Once you have ...
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Give an incentive for tag edits?
Tagging is important, but mass tagging or retagging can bring noise in the active questions list that some users will not like, unlike edits that are viewed more valuable by the community.
As such I ...
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Badge proposal: posts that are linked to often
I don't think we should encourage people to post or create links for the sake of it, which is what this proposal might encourage.
It would tend to encourage posting of duplicate questions, which we ...
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Gold badge for meta participation
A gold badge would complete the set and prompt more people to pay attention to meta. But rather than just expanding the number of posts as suggested here, we should also raise the score bar. We don'...
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Should there be a "Censor" badge?
Ignoring any undertone in this suggestion, I'd support if this could be handed out for non-mods as well. I'd be delighted to get a badge for deleting posts. On Ask Ubuntu, where I'm not a moderator, I ...
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Add a “Canonical” badge awarding questions/answers that are common dupe targets
I disagree. Help Center > Asking on all SE sites clearly states
Please look around to see if your question has been asked before.
SE encourages users to search for duplicates and discourages ...
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Reconsider implementing bounty hunter badges
I personally love these sorts of questions, but I don't feel like the reward is proportional to the amount of effort required. Answering these sorts of questions is an art, and I feel like it deserves ...
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Badge request: gold badge: niche-master
Just to point out how much things can change: [scala] currently has 93,492 questions, roughly 80% answered. It's definitely not a niche tag anymore. And yes, Daniel was the first to get a golden Scala ...
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Badge suggestion: Can we get a "Decade" badge for being an active member for 10 years?
I like the idea, but I think there should be a different name for every year badge earned, it will make it more exciting!
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Badge Request: Hotshot (Ask a Hot Network Question)
On second thought, I don't think such badge is required.
HNQ usually gives the author several badges anyway, not to mention lots of reputation. That's more than enough incentive and positive ...
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A new Era requires new badges (Badge request)
This badge does not fit into the Stack Exchange badge system
The badge system exists for two reasons:
to teach new users how Stack Exchange works
to encourage activities that are positive to the ...
GlorfindelMod
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Is there a way to propose badges?
You propose badges by doing what you just did... making a post here on MSE...
Now, you're going to need to do more than just explain the badge.
You'll need to come up with a name/names, note which ...
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Proposal for two new participation badges
The SE development team has declined this suggestion, with the implied reason "We don't need those badges".
Shadow Wizard says:
Personally I think it's an interesting idea, but the existing badges ...
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Librarian (gold) and Research Assistant 2 (silver) - proposal
I think this would be very helpful and definitely give a greater incentive for tag wiki edits. I like that it makes tag wiki excerpts almost as valuable to edit as actual tag wikis. However, there are ...
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A badge for good perplexing questions
Stack Exchange sites are designed to accumulate high quality questions and answers.
Consequently, I think these badges will encourage a behavior that seeks to replace some of that.
Sure some ...
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Can we have cross-site badges?
This would be great for keeping users active on multiple sites, especially beta sites. A lot of users join a beta site, seem interested in the site for a while, then leave the site and never come back ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible