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How should asker tag badges work?

With the new custom badges feature, we've decided we want tag badges for askers. However, compared to the other custom badges, there are a few hurdles in implementing these:

  • While answer tag badges are formatted and handled specially, it's unlikely at this point that SE will be able to provide the same custom support, so any badges would have to be generic like the custom badges we already have - we would need to figure out how to fit them into that format:
    Generalist Asker badge
  • Doing the above would result in at least 20 new badges. Currently, custom badges are formatted under "other badges" in the Help Center, and I'm not sure how much can be changed here without custom support from SE, but we might want to consider how this would be formatted.
  • Likewise, we probably won't receive any support in automating these, and GentlePurpleRain's query gives 368 badges that would need to be awarded, which would be a lot of moderator effort.
  • Questions are significantly different to answers in terms of taking more effort to create and recieving more votes, so we might want to tweak the thresholds from the answer badge default of 100/400/1000 votes for 20/80/200 questions.

This post is meant for us to discuss how to implement these badges, and anything else that might come up along the way.