I recently awarded with curious badge.  I get a notification like:    But when I checked my badges list, it is not there.     Is that a bug ? Can someone explain little bit about the criteria for achieving Curious, Inquisitive and Socratic badges ?
120940
I got a system message that I earned the curious badge. But actually I did not.    Looking at the badge list in my profile shows the same. I did not get it.
71512
The  on the StackOverflow blog says that badges are there &quot;to encourage positive behavior&quot;. So, why not giving each user some reputation points for each badge? Maybe with differences: a &quot;woot&quot; badge would mean 100 points, while a &quot;scholar&quot; badge would give 10 points to the user. -- Edit: someone pointed out that you already gain some reputation implicitly when you get a Badge. That's false for 90% of badges: Woot -&gt; no rep earned Autobiographer -&gt; no rep earned Beta -&gt; no rep earned Citizen Patrol -&gt; no rep earned Civic Duty -&gt; no rep earned Cleanup -&gt; no rep earned Commentator -&gt; no rep earned Critic -&gt; no rep earned Disciplined -&gt; no rep earned Editor -&gt; no rep earned Fanatic -&gt; no rep earned ...
42129
I just got awarded the third "Custodian" badge on StackOverflow. Given my current reputation (&lt; 800) I have access to two review queues only. So where did the third badge come from?   When taking a deeper look into my badge history, I got awarded one Custodian badge for reviewing late answers and one for reviewing first posts. The third badge I got was for reviewing an edit made to one of my answers.  Is this the purpose of the Custodian badge - or should it just be awarded for reviews of changes made to other people's posts for >2k users?
18803
I just got the  badge on StackOverflow, which is nice, but I noticed a number of top users aren't yet listed (inluding Jon Skeet and Marc Gravell, who would certainly qualify).  This made me wonder how the badges are retrospectively applied. Is it just that the display is heavily cached and the badge is awarded when the user logs in again or something?
17894
Possible Duplicate:          In Stack Overflow, I saw  badge saying that its awarded to "Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase". What do this mean? No user is there having this badge.
15915
What are badges? How do users get badges? How can users get tag badges? Can badges be lost/revoked/taken away after they are awarded? If so, how and when? How can I suggest a new badge?   For more information, see &quot;&quot; and the  in the .
35476
The  has the wording:     10 posts with score of 2 on meta.   Does this mean that to get the badge I need 10 posts with a score of exactly 2 at the same time?  Should the wording be changed to something like:     10 posts with score of 2 or more on meta.
16995
Do we have different set of badges in different SE sites. eg. I don't see any 'Pundit' badge in badges popup in Hinduism SE.  Also, if the above is true, then can we include the left badges in a SE site at a later stage.
69616
Some badges are not awarded after the event has happened.  They require analysis, some of them are Suffrage, Tenacious, Unsung Hero, Quorum...  These calculations are triggered by some schedules.  What are theses badges? When are those calculated?
92644
The new blog post  mentions the new badges  and  are answer badges, but they are listed on the  under Question Badges:    Since you earn these primarily by posting an answer (you're not required to do anything about the question, though editing it will probably help), they definitely belong to the Answer Badges.
94021
Got a commentator badge today. Though my  shows only 8 comments. Either the  has changed or the SO App was generous to me today. Thanks for the badge, don't take it away :)
23246
I was just curious, why is epic a silver badge if only 73 users have been awarded with it?  For example: Silver Epic - 73  Gold Electorate - 193    Edit: My point was to reduce the level of epic, like "hit the daily reputation cap on 30 days" so it becomes some what at par with other silver badges.
55714
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?
3267
I just noticed the Copy Editor badge progress indicator on ,    Can we have this for more badges please?   In particular the badges where it's not clear to the user how they're doing.   Announcer  Archaeologist  Booster Generalist Pundit Sportsmanship Taxonomist Tenacious Unsung Hero   It would also be nice to put it somewhere in stackoverflow.com/badges (tool tip maybe?)
95039
I've just been granted a badge on , here's the link to the badge:    It looks to me like this:        The link on the badge says   and just redirects to all questions page.
44755
I read this:   and this:   If this badge is only available for users with 2000 rep and above, why do I see it? It should be invisible until I have 2000 rep.  I think it's better to not show it until user has 2000 rep. Expose the badges only when someone can get them.
27429
I've stumbled across a user whose  mentions they've got two 'Famous Question' gold badges:    Upon clicking the 'Famous Question' link, we see this:    Even more curious, they appear to have bronze badges from before the site was .  As I was writing up this post, the badge counts appear to have been corrected.   Is this a case of an account merge gone wrong?