On child meta sites, new users (those who don't have a badge yet) see the message "Take the Tour and earn your first badge" in their profile page. The message is the same as on the normal Q&amp;A sites.    However, on meta pages, the tour is linked to their parent site and it's not possible to obtain the informed badge on sub meta sites, so the message is useless on meta. For my user, I saw this message on  and
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I just joined Sports, and I decided to take a look on Sports Meta. I clicked on my profile there. This is part of what I saw:     Yet the profile shouldn't indicate that it is, in theory. . .  This seems to be a bug.
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Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but I noticed today that if I , it annoyingly one-boxes a link to the room, which is not a link to the info page! That's it. I'm gonna pack up and leave! Such annoyance! But for the time being,  Is this behavior expected? If so, what is the reason for changing the links? If this is really a bug since the responsible bot is not seeing parts of the URLs and ends up one-boxing, and hence linking to the wrong message, could this be fixed please? Worth pointing out that too much exposure to annoying things results in a higher blood pressure.
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I edited this post today  on stack overflow. I was approved of the edit, so I waited a few minutes to get my  badge because this answer was posted on Jan 28 '10 at 1:06, but it never came. I have read multiple articles on meta that there have been bugs with this badge, but they have been about winning it multiple times (), or earning it then losing it (). Am I missing something here?
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The  caused me to win , yey!  But wait.     [Mortarboard] Hit the daily reputation cap for the first time   Per-site metas don't have any reputation... I am confused :-)  I know why I got the badge. Should I have?  Let me rephrase. Is this behavior desirable?
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So, the people on SuperUser are really awesome and I'm glad you guys are keeping that place full of information.   However, I visited SuperUser today after my little plugin told me that I had visited SuperUser for 30 consecutive days. The thing is, I almost never visit SuperUser. So obviously I was surprised to learn that I got a badge for visiting a site I never go to.  I'm guessing this is not a program issue. So, my theory is that it has to do with this plugin I have on Google Chrome. Everyday, multiple times a day, it goes to my recent activity page on all 4 sites and finds out my rep.   Would this be how I got my badge?
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When I look at my own , I can see all my top questions and answers by their score on there. Even MSO is there. But some of my best posts are on . Looking at others, it seems all per-site Meta's are not included. Why are they excluded from this? And if there isn't a reason why, can we have them added? Some of the best answers and questions users post are on their own sites meta, and they need some time to shine.
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It's so cool that the notification reminds you of the colour of badge you've earned. But I am a little puzzled by the symbols:      Is it feasible to use the symbol from the earned site? At the moment it uses the symbol from the site I happen to be on (as you can see by looking to the left of the dropdown in each case.)
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Especially on technical sites, as even sporadic users will have noticed, new users very often don't include important information into the question they're posting.  This usually leads the first user passing by to leave a comment asking for clarifications, which punctually get posted in the comments section.  Many times there's not even the need for a user to ask OP to do so, OP just does that because they forgot something or because they want to improve their question by adding more details.  In any case this leads to:   Important information posted into the comments section, where they shouldn't stay; Question not bumping up in the active questions tab, which doesn't help fixing point #1; Unless OP pings one of the users that left a comment in doing so, none of the user who commented will get to know that the requested clarifications were posted, which doesn't help fixing point #1 either.   I think it would be convenient to prompt new users with a popup similar to the popup prompting to leave an explanation upon downvote when a new user leaves a comment under the following conditions:   OP hasn't been prompted before (i.e. do this only upon OP's first attempt to comment); OP is commenting on their own question; OP didn't benefit from the association bonus.   The message could go something like this (feel free to rephrase):     Comments shouldn't be used to add important information to the question; if you're adding information useful for your question to be answered, please  your question instead.   Mock-up:    This could also be a great opportunity to teach new users how to reply to comments:     Comments shouldn't be used to add important information to the question; if you're adding information useful for your question to be answered, please  your question instead. If you're replying to a comment of another user, you can use @username, where username is the username of the user you're replying to without spaces, to notify the user of your reply.   Mock-up:
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I'm no longer active on Stack Overflow, but it seems that any time I land on the site there's a notification that I've earned a badge for a question that has become  or . It seems literally only a matter of time before I "earn" a gold badge for having a  question.  Is there some time limit or other method to prevent questions from accumulating page views for the life of the site?  More importantly, is this a feature or a bug?  On the one hand, when I see the notification that I got a badge just for not deleting my account, I shake my head and think, "Silly system!  Don't you know about the ?"  On the other hand, I actually get a little  when I think that my question was one that other people were interested in reading. I feel like I helped someone who was searching for an answer.  On the third hand, who cares?
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According to :  The new indicator works by the age of a user's first visible post. This could be a question or answer, and the association bonus won't influence the behavior. While you might not be new to our engine, everyone is new when they first join a new community, so the indicator is shown.   How old does one's first visible post have to be for the indicator to be removed?  Is the indicator status calculated on the fly when loading a post, or is it permanently attached to a post and only removed on later posts?  Finally, what happens if the first visible post gets deleted? Is the calculation still based on that post, or is it based on the next post that continues to be visible? In other words, if I posted a few years ago and later post again, and I delete my post from a few years ago, will the indicator start showing up?
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Badges earned on per-site meta sites are separate from the main site, but reputation is carried over from the main site (because you don't earn any on Meta).   I perfectly understand keeping the rep the way it is (meta votes are too subjective to integrate them with rep) but the badge split seems odd to me.  Multiple badges are in fact impossible on Meta; Mortarboard, Bounty related badges. In addition badges in general are much harder to earn due to the lower amount of users and content; badges like Great Answer are nearly impossible.   As a result of this, most users on Meta end up with the easy 5-10 bronze badges for basic participation on Meta and not much else; stuff like Supporter and Critic that are hard not to get.   I understand the want to drive more people to meta, so perhaps badges are separate to institute a reward system; however this doesn't seem to work well since Meta badges (mostly) don't appear on the main site. This in combination of the 0 rep gain makes Meta feel almost not real. It also makes part of your progress (badges) on the main site invisible on Meta, and vise versa.  IMO the badges should be the same on both Meta and main site, but more Meta-oriented badges should be added to encourage use of Meta. This way Meta badges feel "real" instead of "Meta".  Is there an official reason for per site metas having separate badges?
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The User Profile Page shows how much helpful flags a user has raised. Clicking on that number redirects to another page that shows the complete details of the flags, their number, helpful, declined, etc. The number of helpful flags shown there is not equal to the number I view on the Profile Page.  It's not the first time but I've noticed it many times before as well.   Is this happening only with me or anybody else has experienced it?
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Earlier today I asked my first question on this site. So Meta SE was added to my accounts. But this account is shown three times:        One of them also has a badge while the other two don't.   The network profile doesn't show MSE at all:        Also I have got this long wierd user name and  I am not able to change it. In the edit- display name this long name is not there.My user name on other sites is shown there.   After all this happened Meta SE questions are not getting loaded in my SE app.    Edit: the issue of name is solved now. I changed the profile picture and saved changes and it worked.
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Recently, the  was introduced in order to replace the old FAQ! Which is really nice. But we lost a friend to battle, one minute for "Fragment Identifier", he was a good bro! We want it back!  Since votes are a lot different on the meta, we often have to link to the "vote section" of the meta article to help users learn more about the meta! The only problem I see is that now, when we link to the , there is no way to have a direct link to the vote section (which is the one we want to point out!). I understand that users that are redirected to that section should read the whole section and everything, but it would be nice to have an "id" on the Voting is different on meta title in order to enable us to link to it like before!  So adding an "id" like #vote-differences like it was before would be awesome! And make us able to link to   /helpcenter/whats-meta#vote-differences   To show directly the section we want to talk about! (And a beautiful highlight, as pointed out by Doorknob would be awesome! Or ponies, definitely ponies) Note that this is just one example! Every sub section could/should get one, because most user won't take the time reading a whole page. So if we can link to a specific section, there are more chances that the user read it!    As proposed, every "title" (which are currently bees) could get his own ID (Fragment Identifier) as it was before, and would gain of being an h2/h3/hwhatEverFits to really clear up the markup!
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NB: I'm not sure if this is actually a bug, or if I just don't know enough about what constitutes a new user. It just seems off to me.  The first post in question:   :   In the context of reviews, is a new user just someone who has never posted an answer no matter their age or rep?  Also: How is it possible for a user to have -1 other answers? Could this be related?
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When I visit  I see this:     The "Congratulations! You've earned (badge)" section has dropped down completely beneath the tabs under it. The "You've earned a new privilege!" section has a gap at the bottom:     Shog9 says in comments how to reproduce this:     Gotta have earned a badge, not dismissed the notification, and be looking at your own profile.
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On the left sidebar, the first item of the menu is my profile pic + nickname. It seems to be a fake link. Wouldn't be cool if this link goes to my profile instead of doing nothing?  Or maybe, instead of a "non-link", display a summary of my profile (points, number of badges, profile views, helpful tags, etc..).