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I think of it as a pick-me-up thing. It's like SE saying: You didn't get anything useful, so here's badge to cheer you up! So, yes, be a little happy! :) Poking around on Meta SE: this is exactly the intent. And it's sort of fun, also useful because it gives us a data point about how many questions are utter failures in the system (not due to the user's ...

Based on the idea from the math site where they use different shapes for bronze, silver, and gold badges, what about having different prompts for ours? Gold could be a (root shell) #, but I'm not sure how to differentiate silver and bronze (> and $?) Update: Based on feedback in the comments, here's a clearer proposal: Gold: #_ Silver: $_ Bronze: >_ ...

The full badge description is: Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record A "positive question record" is defined as: (total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions >= 0.5 I won't post the exact number here for privacy, but yours is under 0.5. The problem is if you have a ...

Even more than with material things the acquisition of virtualities like badges on StackExchange is not something you should make your happiness depend upon. Did you ask a bad question? Maybe, but not necessarily. If you look at who recently got the tubmleweed badge, you can see that several a day seem to be given out, and the total given out is ...

I was bored so I re-made the badges' design proposed by Jeff Schaller. My take on it is according to the aviation.SE, which has the biggest badges that I managed to find on SE (increased here by a factor of 10): I draw the black pixels to show how I measured it, the image suggests that SO/SE badges are 16x16 pixels sprites. The aviation.SE badges are not ...

All metas work the same except Stack Overflow, which is treated like a normal site in the network because it predates Stack Exchange's expansion into many separate sites. MSO has a problem where people who post ideas can often lose rep because the idea gets voted down, even though the post itself was well written. The per-site metas avoid this problem by not ...

This happened to a number of people. Regarding the "Announcer" badge: A bug was fixed. See Suddenly getting "Announcer" badges every few minutes? (and then Missing publicist badge?) on the main Meta site. You can't give badges back. Regarding the hats: No, you can't unfortunately keep the hats that you earn in the "Winter Bash" past January 1. ...

Yes, according to this answer from a developer. This other answer defines "real" access as access to non-"homepage style" pages. I know the login page and the question list don't count as real, but viewing any individual question does

You made it sound like you get this badge all the time; it should only be awardable once. You got it when '403 Forbidden' error only appears on Linux system; other devices connect fine from same IP address was automatically deleted as part of a daily cleanup routine (it falls under the last category). I think this might actually be a bug, since Peer Pressure ...

Tags aren't considered for tag badges until they're used on 100 questions; pacman is only at 86 questions

Ask 100 different Q's that are over the course of 100 unique days and have at least a +1 on said 100 Q's. This meta question titled: Asking days badges explains the well received as follows: excerpt A well-received question is one that's open, not deleted, and has a score > 0. If you ask at least one well-recieved question in a UTC day and none of ...

Everything is detailed in this meta post on the badges, Asking days badges. excerpt well-received question on X separate days A well-received question is one that's open, not deleted, and has a score > 0. If you ask at least one well-recieved question in a UTC day and none of your questions that day are deleted, downvoted, or closed, you get ...

We'd rather you didn't; the intent is to encourage you to delete bad posts, not to post more of them. See Flaw in the Peer Pressure badge, Badges should reward positive behavior

I believe you're missing the deleted questions. As Michael did previously, I took the apparent formula: (total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions >= 0.5 and plugged in your numbers (according to my interpretation, which counted duplicates as also being closed) and came up with a number less than 0.5. I based my "duplicate"...

The situation is IMHO even worse than you describe, in that the person originally doing the research for a duplicate does not get to review the question as they already have voted the question to be closed. Finding a duplicate, which I agree is one of the harder tasks if you don't happen to remember to have seen the question before, is thereby not rewarded ...

Analytical is actually impossible now, you can't earn it anymore. It's a known problem, but they haven't gotten around to fixing it; they're either going to come up with a new way to earn it or just replace it