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When is a tag on a question counted for badges?
The SE system tracks a tally of how many questions you answered for a given tag, and at certain thresholds, awards badges (bronze, silver, gold) for that tag, that at least for gold status come with ...
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Why aren't the badges Precognitive and Beta retired?
The name says it all. Why are these badges (precognitive and beta) unretired when you can't get them anymore?
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Does the answer need to be upvoted within 12 hours to qualify for the Illiminator badge?
The Illuminator gold badge description says:
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
If you post an answer and edit the question, but then the answer goes ...
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Is editing tags enough to quality for the Illuminator badge?
The Illuminator gold badge description says:
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
Is editing the tags of a question enough for the purposes of qualifying ...
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How does one earn the "Socratic" badge?
The badge description confuses me:
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
The only part I get is "ask a well-received question". What I don't ...
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Why doesn't my curious badge count all my well received questions?
After reading this Meta.SE post and reviewing this question and answer I can't seem to work out why the progress noted for my 'curious' badge is only 2/5 instead of 3/5.
I don't have a positive ...
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What privileges, exactly, come with tag badges?
I'm given to understand, based on questions like this one, that tag badges (only gold tag badges?) come with some privileges that apply only when acting on posts with that tag. However, I'm unable to ...
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Is it possible to vote to close a question as a duplicate (instead of single-handedly closing it) when you have a gold tag badge?
Recently I acquired a gold badge for dnd-5e.
Gold tag badges allow a user to single-handedly mark questions with the appropriate tag as duplicates and reopen them as needed.
However, one problem I'...
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What are the criteria for the "Curious" Badge?
The "Curious" Badge is awarded when you "ask a good question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record." What is meant by "good question" in this? It's not the score of 25 required ...
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Does contributing to Close/Reopen votes outside of the review queue contribute to your total?
At 250 and 1000 reviews in a category, you get a badge. But if you either vote to close or reopen outside of the queue, does it still count towards this total? And if not (as I suspect at the moment), ...
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How do 'Get X votes/views' badges work?
If you get 100 upvotes on an question or answer, that'll get you a Great Question/Answer badge. Likewise, there's the Famous Question badge for question views. But what happens if you already have a ...
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Why don't I have Strunk and White?
I noticed on the election page that I don't have Strunk and White, but I would think I should have it. My user activity page shows that I've done 162 revisions, while the badge only requires 80 edits....
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I just got fifteen badges, but I'm not bragging
I just got fifteen badges, about fifteen minutes ago, split between Announcer, Booster, and one Publicist. While I do pass links around ... it seems a little strange that I would get so many at one ...
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Citizen's Patrol Badge... why?
I just got awarded the Citizen's Patrol badge... but I don't think I flagged anything recently.
Anyone know why that might happen?
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