Questions tagged [tag-badges]
For questions about the badges awarded for specific tags.
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Gold badge, yet can't reopen a closed question [duplicate]
Looking at the following question
Change the length of source PF in AS400
It makes perfect sense to me as a gold badge holder in ibm-midrange I clicked reopen expecting that I could reopen it single ...
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Why did I earn the same gold tag badge twice?
I just earned the gold java badge twice. I first noticed it in my achievements:
I thought it would just be a fluke of the notification being sent out twice. However, if I check my profile, I see that ...
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Show tag score in flair instead of badge count
Currently when you answer a question your flair shows up with your total stack overflow score and badge count.
At a glance this gives superficial credibility to the answer because "this person ...
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Can't dupe hammer question because I added a tag, but I could have done it _before_ the edit
Convert raw string (having escape characters) to unicode/utf8 string
Convert "\x" escaped string into readable string in python
When voting to close 1) as duplicate of 2), the system didn't ...
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Gold tag badges don't apply to synonymized tags
(I want to preemptively say that I do not contribute to Stack Overflow for the reputation or the badges)
On Stack Overflow, I possess the selenium Gold badge, but the permissions don't seem to apply ...
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Cannot select next badge to track
Today, I earned a badge and I wanted to pick the next badge to track myself.
To my surprise, the list is unresponsive when I tap the desired (any) badge option.
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Incorrect gold badge notification in inbox
I apparently just earned the gold database tag today, as indicated by my profile here:
However, the notification I received in my inbox erroneosly mentions the gold t-sql badge:
Notes:
The gold t-...
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Can I opt out of single-handedly closing questions via the gold badge privilege? [duplicate]
Sometimes, I run into questions where I think it's a duplicate, but I'm not sure. In those cases, I'd like to suggest the duplicate, but I don't want to close the new question all by myself. I've done ...
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Only tag-related badges appeared available for tracking after a badge was earned
I was awarded the Inquisitive badge (30 well-received questions) on Stack Overflow (which was a tracked badge). The badges section on the profile page showed the options to "Choose a new badge&...
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Track Language Badges [closed]
I may have missed this, but I want to track my progress towards the C# gold badge.
As far as I can tell, this isn't possible in the badge-tracker.
Why is this?
Is this a feature worthy of ...
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How can we prevent "close/opening wars" between gold tag badge holders around possible duplicates with only-code-no-explanation answers?
I have seen many cases of questions closed as duplicate by a gold tag badge holder that later are reopened by other tag badge holders that have answered those questions with code-only-no-explanation-...
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Strange line break in "Track next privilege/tag badge" popup
As shown in the image below, the popup seems to be too small for the text.
I encountered this same issue on Opera, Edge and Chrome browsers.
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Next tag badge: What do "score" and "answers" mean? Like x/yyy
I see the below in my profile:
Next tag badge
python
2/100 score
4/20 answers
What does it mean by 2/100 and 4/20? Does it mean I have 2 and need 100 scores to get the Python badge? Or I have ...
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Language tag badges should be awarded for curation activities
With the increasing number of garbage questions on the site, it's becoming more and more difficult to find good questions to answer. And with the increasing number of users who don't bother accepting ...
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Why does the activity tab show congratulations for previously earned badge, when I have earned "Access to site analytics" privilege?
I have earned the "Access to site analytics" privilege today,
After that, I visited my Activity page,
Why does it show Congratulations! for the silver badge of mongodb tag that I earned 7 ...
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