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    If you're active on meta sites, you'll see that being able to distinguish who's a staff member is a useful ability. See my top answer here. Commented Aug 1, 2019 at 15:29
  • Thanks, maybe it shouldn't be across all the sites as someone mentioned. Commented Aug 1, 2019 at 15:30
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    But sometimes staff act in official or unofficial capacities on sites. Its also a replacement for the old staff page in a way. Commented Aug 1, 2019 at 15:37
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    This was chosen because very few people actually view user profile pages unless they're specifically looking for more information about users. That's why we'd never indicate staff everywhere they post as part of their username the way we do moderators. We want our staff to be able to participate as regular users without feeling like they're in a fish bowl. This is a relatively unobtrusive indicator. Commented Aug 1, 2019 at 15:43
  • I hope so, I spend time on peoples' profiles sometimes to see all their reputation and awesome contributions they've made to the community :) Commented Aug 1, 2019 at 15:44
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    "the badges add two new achievements" -- no, they don't. These are not badges like "Editor" and "Autobiographer". These are indicators added to the profiles of staff. Staff are people paid by Stack Overflow the company, they have a different reason to be on the site than you or I: they are being paid for it. I don't understand why you think this makes it feel like a race or something you need to achieve. Commented Aug 1, 2019 at 16:24
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    I guess if you really want to get this "badge", we're hiring... :) Commented Aug 1, 2019 at 17:45
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    Yes I absolutely need that badge in order to be able to cause underflows in places never yet before. Thank you for the offer. :) The badges should totally be hyperlinks that send people to the we're hiring page! Commented Aug 1, 2019 at 23:02
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    The first two points I think are intended, and seem now to be true, as discussed in this post among many many others in a long pattern of downweighting community input in favor of staff decisions. Commented Aug 2, 2019 at 14:48
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    To clear things out I wasn't mocking Adam's comment, I was just making a little joke out of my name. And having the badges link to the we're hiring page sounds like a good idea to me. Commented Aug 3, 2019 at 16:02
  • @CausingUnderflowsEverywhere I'm upvoting because of your username! I find that username more agreeable than any counter-argumet to your question. ;-) Commented Aug 7, 2019 at 19:53