Questions tagged [badges]
Badges are awarded to encourage and incentivize positive community actions within the site.
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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 ...
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Can’t display my Puzzling profile page, but can display Puzzling profile pages of other users
I can’t display my Puzzling profile page, but can display the Puzzling profile pages of other users.
But I can also display my profile page on other Stack Exchange sites.
When I try to display my ...
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Puzzling Community Badges
This post is intended as a general Community Badge signpost: both an FAQ, and a collection of all existing Community Badges.
What is a Community Badge? While most badges are standardized across all ...
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What sorts of Community Badges would be beneficial for Puzzling?
Puzzling is a very unique site with a lot of really devoted users. You also run Puzzling Advent, which is an awesome community-building event. The amount of effort you put into the site is incredible, ...
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Community Badge proposal: Seasonal Setter
Background
Stack Exchange recently added a new feature: Community Badges. These are site-specific badges which can be manually awarded by moderators. In order to create a badge we need a meta post ...
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Why is getting silver badges so much harder with questions than with answers?
Getting silver badges is so much harder with questions than with answers.
And I think that is mainly because of the silver 'Enlightened' badge.
Examples
If you look at the top users at PSE, you'll ...
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Just curious as to why the revival badge was not awarded for this question
The following is the condition stated to receive the revival badge:
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
I believe the condition was met for my post ...
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Generalist Countdown: ZERO!
We have liftoff!
Thank you for your participation!
-- A Generalist, 2020-02-18
Since we are a relatively young site in the Stack Exchange network, we haven't been able to enjoy any Generalist badges ...
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Badge "Vox Populi" is improperly described
The "Vox Populi" badge is improperly described. It should say "question and answer votes" instead of just "votes", since comment votes are not counted towards the Vox Populi badge.
"Use the maximum ...
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What specifically does "rollback" mean?
In the description for the cleanup badge, it says to earn this badge, you need to have your first "rollback", yet when I search rollback on the internet, I get "a reduction or decrease". I do not ...
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Too difficult or pointless badges
Browsing through the badges, I couldn't help but notice some badges which didn't fit or were simply too difficult to achieve. They've been bugging me and someone needs to bring them up.
I made a list ...
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What's with the Generalist badge?
The description of the Generalist badge reads:
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags.
But I've provided non-wiki answers of at least 18 total score in 21 of the top 40 tags ...
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Badge for swift answerers?
There was a discussion recently about users who answer questions very soon after they've been posted, and a couple of us thought it'd be a good idea to have a badge for this. It's quite impressive to ...
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Can we abolish the Analytical badge?
There's a badge called 'Analytical' whose description reads:
Visited every section of the FAQ (retired)
Since this badge is retired and nobody has got it so far, that means nobody is ever going to ...
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What is the meaning of the Announcer, Booster, Publicist badges?
The badge description reads:
Shared a link to a question that was visited by [number] unique IP addresses.
What does this actually mean? How can one get these badges? If I send an email (or tweet ...
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