The fanatic badge is awarded if you visited the site for 100 consecutive days. Apart from , but I was wondering, what does a visit entail? Any of these?   Visit for at least 1 second Visit for at least 86.400 seconds Visit and did something, incl. voting, tagging, commenting, time of visit not counted Visit and did some more thing, at least asked/answered/edited a question Visit site while John Skeet is present   In short, is a visit a hit, or an active visit?
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I'm pretty depressed that I'm finally one of the people posting this, since I'm usually telling those people "you're obviously wrong", but either I don't understand how consecutive day counting works or this seems impossible:    The last activity count is right; I was on SO at about 18:30Z yesterday (Saturday). Is it possible for the consecutive count to be at 1 if my last activity was yesterday? It would seem like it has to be at least 2 then (although I was definitely active Friday; I suspect Saturday is the "missing" day since all I did was poke through the newest question list and check the current flags)
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I shared a link to a question and now I am wondering whether I am almost going to get an announcer badge.  Can I somehow see which links I shared and how many clicks were on it for the last days?  Update:  Maybe this would be a nice feature. Next to any question you can see who has promoted it the most (number of fresh hits from a referer link) and also the amount of new ip's through search engine's and other referring sites.  Note the progress feature should include the Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges.
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It would be nice to see what users have recently been active. This is somewhat standard with many forum-style websites, showing how active the site has been in the last n-minutes or so. As a functional advantage, this also serves to let you know when is a good time to get a question in.
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This is my total reputation for today:    I just started my carreer as an active member on the StackExchance sites, so I don't have the Mortarboard badge yet:    I am assuming either the 100 rep bounty or the 100 rep association bonus did not count towards the daily reputation badge. Is this intended? If so, I think the user should get some information about this - for example in the notification he gets.  I found something that actually makes me think this is a bug. When hovering over my account name I get this:    The reputation is displayed there but the sum isn't right in the column today.
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The description of the new  badge currently reads:     Asked a good question on 5 separate days, and maintains a positive question record.   The term "good question" seems to be defined by the badge :     Question score of 25 or more.   Curious seems to use another criterion, though, as witnessed by  (no Good Question but Curious).  Please clarify the description.
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It would appear that the account's "Last activity time" is not updated for every hit.  I've been active on SO all morning, and in the last five minutes have voted on some posts as well as posted an answer.  However,  says:     "Last activity: 2 hours ago from &lt;IP address&gt;"   Is there a certain amount of time that needs to elapse between hits before the activity time is updated again?  This issue could result in Enthusiast badges not being awarded when they should.
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There is an "Informed" badge for reading the meta about page but it was awarded zero times and to make sure I tried reading the about page but did not receive it. If the badge is to be awarded here, then this should be 'fixed'. If not, it should be removed from the list of badges.
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Seems like a stupid question, but I'm after a nice solid answer if possible.  I joined SO a while ago to ask the odd question, but recently I'm starting to use it more often.  I've been reviewing the 40 max items (20 first posts/20 late answers) per day, and editing anything I see wrong with them (lots of +2's)... flagging them... etc.  I've also been  per day.  But other than commenting where I can and answering the odd question, I'm only  (1k at the moment).  I might just be overeager, but I was hoping some high-rep users might be able to write a little something on how they earned their stripes?  I've , and to be honest I was hoping I'd get a hit, because it sounds like a stupid question... anyways, here you go!  Also, I'm not referring to how to gain rep on Meta, since it's a bit of a fluke I've earned the rep I have on here. I'm asking about main SO.
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It seems to me that badges like “fanatic” can be automated, i.e. someone could put a script together to “earn” that badge.  Is there any safeguard against such practice?  Or is it regarded as fair-play (as in “if you even managed to put such a script together, dude, you deserve it”?!
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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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I just noticed that I've been a member for 1 year and 2+ days. I hovered over the 1 year text to see the date. I have exactly 200 rep.  I found multiple questions about the Yearling badge not being awarded, but the users hadn't quite reached the 1 year mark yet.  I thought maybe I needed more than 200 rep, but the badge description says at least 200.  So perhaps the association bonus doesn't count? Or perhaps the description is incorrect and should read more than 200. Or perhaps the badges aren't awarded in real time and I have to wait for some scheduled calculation?   says that rep > 200 is required. However,  says rep >= 200 is required. And  says the association bonus does count, but rep > 200 is required. A comment on  says the calculation is done nightly.  Just curious. Why haven't I received my Yearling badge for meta? If I need more than 200, the description should be corrected. And does that mean I have to wait another whole year?  Updated  If we consider the comment by Sha Wiz Dow Ard and take the definition of earn literally, we didn't earn our first rep point. But that is misleading because what about rep that you earned and then gave away as a bounty (or lost by other means)? You still earned it.  For reference, this is the description at time of writing.     Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation    It seems that it is calculated on how much you have and not how much you earned. So you need to have rep > 200. And thus, it should be explained that way.  I think the description on the  and the description in  should be updated. I know I can edit the answer, but while I now have anecdotal evidence, I am still not exactly sure how the calculation is done behind the scenes.  For reference, the wiki answer has this description at time of writing.     Have a reputation ≥ (number of years as an active user) × 200
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I know Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky are the owners or creators because I came by the site from reading their blogs.  Who else works for Stack Overflow in here?  Does Jon Skeet? There's also a fair number of 100k+ users now.  The answers from them are quite informative. It seems that to get that many points in such a short amount of time (the site's only been online for 2-3 years?), you would need to be spending quite a lot of time, regularly on here, so either they   Have a ton of spare time either at work or outside of work Are unemployed (seems unlikely given their breadth of knowledge) Work for Stack Overflow and their job is partially to post answers.   These guys seem too knowledgeable so reason 1 or reason 2 seem unlikely, so I suspect reason 3.
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With reference to this currently open question   At the time of writing, it has 3 close votes yet has 7 question upvotes and the single answerer (11 upvotes) will have been awarded the enlightened badge (silver).  Therefore in the opinion of many (i) the question adds value and (ii) the answer adds value.  As a staring point for discussion, I suggest that 5 net question upvotes (and perhaps 5 answer net upvotes) should be enough to keep a question permanently open. Let's haggle over the numbers though. Thoughts?
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I don't know if this is a bug. It could be, or there might be a simple explanation.   I was visiting a user's profile because they had become uncharacteristically quiet when I noticed the following. The user's last visit is recorded as being March 17         However, when I visited their answer page I saw the following        Is there an explanation for this (seemingly) odd behaviour? How is it possible to post an answer seven days later without that visit being recorded?
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If I do any of the below, which would normally constitute "activity" on any Stack Exchange site (including mobile):   View my profile Vote on any question or comment Visit one or more questions   ...then Stack Exchange considers me to have "visited" the site.  If I do any of the below on the mobile app:   Vote on any question or comment Visit one or more questions   ...then Stack Exchange does not consider me to have visited the site.  If one wants the app to have feature parity with the mobile site, then shouldn't my participation within the app also count towards the Enthusiast/Fanatic badge?
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There is a badge named Electorate which is going to be awarded on "Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions". Can somebody explain this to me?  Voted on 600 Question and 25% are on Question? is this  means   Voted on 600 Posts and 25% are on Question  Can't SO place some easy text or Definitions for average users?
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I just took a look at the Recent Badges column and the high frequency of occurrence of a username caught my attention:    I then visit the links of these badges to see how this user (jrharshath) earn all these badges at once. It turns out that these questions are quite old and he should have earned them a long time ago.  Famous Question:     Notable Question:     Good Question:     Why did he earn all these badges at the same time?