I asked a  which I believe according to the criteria      Asked a question with no answers, no comments, and low views for a week   My answer currently has:   Asked 27 days ago Viewed 21 times No Answers, No comments   I expect the reason that I have not received the badge because I have received one upvote on my question, but this is not in the criteria. Or is 21 times too many views?
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Formerly List of all badges with full descriptions.  What are badge name's requirements? Why didn't I get badge name ? Which badges can I earn multiple times?    Jump to:                    Note: Some badges are awarded based on score. The term score means the total number of upvotes minus the total number of downvotes.  Any badge with a *** next to it is one of 20 badges that count towards the  displayed on a moderator candidate in an election. The candidate score is a total of 40 points: the first 20 are awarded based on the user's rep divided by 1000 and rounded down; the second 20 represents the total number of unique badges earned of the 20 that count. Note that if the same badge is earned multiple times, it will only count once towards the candidate score.  Any badge with a &quot;(retired)&quot; next to it is no longer awarded, but is retained by users who previously earned them. See  for more info on what it means for a badge to be retired.       Visit the  of the  on any site to see a complete list of badges that you can filter by earned, unearned, or type.
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"Voted on 600 questions and has better than 3:1 answer/question vote ratio" is the current text.  "Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions" is my proposed text.  (Or should it read "or less"?  I'm still not completely sure what is intended.)  "Better" in the original doesn't indicate which way is preferred (and it's not clear to me one way or the other is better, merely that a certain threshold is the requirement for this badge).  This is even slightly shorter, in both characters and as displayed for me in a proportional font, which should help for a badge with one of the longest current descriptions.
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I was reading  last night. When I got to the bottom, where the answer button usually is, I saw the following message in its place:     protected by Won't Jun 13 '11 at 16:28      Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted   low-quality answers, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on   this site.      Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead?   I wasn't planning on answering it, but it did make me curious as I have 101 rep on the site. Is this a bug, or is there something I am missing?
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Clearly, that was the result of an inexperienced user.  If a question gets a bunch of replies, then the "comment" could easily get lost in the other answers.  I think that if there is no activity on the "comment" (no comments, no votes, etc.), then I think converting the answer to a comment is a valid operation for housekeeping purposes. If there are comments, votes, etc., then the answer should likely be left alone.
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I recently posted an "answer" to a self-asked and answered question with basically no votes. I was hoping to ask the poster a specific question about his code, but a moderator deleted it basically saying that it wasn't an answer and I should follow the rules.   This happened to me twice now, except the first time I wasn't deleted, just down-voted into oblivion. How am I supposed to ask questions and participate to earn reputation if I don't have any reputation to ask questions/participate within the guidelines? I came very close to 50 reputation points and then people went through and voted down my discussions with the OP.  This is almost akin to the "you can't get a job without experience" conundrum, and I feel an easy solution would be to lower the amount of reputation points required to comment on posts. It's ridiculous that this community is so hostile to someone who is only trying to contribute instead of just taking without giving back.  EDIT: Thanks, to whomever went through and voted up enough things to get me to 50 reputation points!
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There are already many questions about the epic badge and that it was assigned too late, but:  I have just received the  on  after earning 200 rep today (which incl. 2x15 for two accepted answers). However the rep listing under  states for me:  rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 41 days rep cap was exceeded on 48 days   I had been keeping an eye on those numbers so the badge came as a surprise. Is this an error? I'd really like to earn the badge ;-).  Also just to clarify: Must the rep cap be hit, i.e. must a limitation have been encountered? By this I mean you got 21 up-votes at one day (20 to get the max 200 rep + 1 to hit the limitation, which is than listed as [0] in the listing). Or is it enough to get 200 (or 200+) rep points in any combination? My listing tells me that both of these values are below 50 times. I've tried hitting the recalculate button, with no change.    Ok, I manually recounted all days where I got 200 or more rep. I actually count 50 of them, however on one I had exactly 200 which might not count for the rep cap was exceeded on number while counting for the badge. This makes 49 days. I thought the last missing one might simply be because the day isn't over, but now it is 5 min after midnight UTC and it is still just 48.    The same -2 offset happened now to me with the Legendary badge:  rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 111 days earned at least 200 reputation on 148 days   I don't mind it at this point, but in general there should be an exact display of the days available.
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Upon seeing , I took a look at the  tag, and it currently has 1366 unanswered questions, and 4326 total questions. Seeing as that's quite a lot, I thought I'd help with the burnination (am I correct in thinking the burnination is done by users?). However, I can't really tell when the burnination should start or when it's "approved"? I found , but there are no answers.
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I recently got awarded some new badges for different SE sites, however I was a bit surprised at which sites gave me which badges. The badges are :  Asked a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintained a positive question record.  Asked a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintained a positive question record.  Asked a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintained a positive question record. I can find out if I meet the &quot;well-received question on X separate days&quot; criteria with , so know the reason I did/didn't get a badge must be related to the &quot;positive question record&quot; criteria instead. I found  which defines the formula for determining your &quot;positive question record&quot; for the purpose of these badges as  (total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions &gt;= 0.5   But without knowing how many questions I've deleted over the years, or having a handy way to view them all at once, I have no idea what what my actual &quot;positive question record&quot; score is, and what I can do to improve it. Is there a way to find out my &quot;positive question record&quot; score for a specific site?  Since the answer to this question seems to be *"You can't right now"*, I am going to change this to a feature-request per the [suggestion][3] of a moderator below. Please implement a way for users to find out what their &quot;positive question record&quot; score is for a specific SE site, so that they can see how close they are to getting these badges and can work towards them.
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With  questioning why Badge X hasn't been awarded yet, would it be possible to add a line to each badge description:   This badge will be awarded within an hour of meeting the criteria This badge will be awarded within 48 hours of meeting the criteria This badge will be awarded within seven days of meeting the criteria   Or perhaps at least add a question / entry into :  The following badges are awarded within five minutes of meeting the criteria:  [badge:Nice Question] [Nice Answer]...  The following badges are awarded within 48 hours of meeting the criteria:  ...  This would be most helpful in responding to questions like  as well as the many bug requests about un-awarded badges.
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In , I see 117 score for my top voted question. But if you visit the question, you'll find that it has 118 score. The last vote I got on that question was at least a week ago, IIRC. Bug?
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Pretty much what the title says, but I think context is needed.  I already read , by the way, but this one is not a case of one no longer fulfilling the criteria but rather, at least in my opinion, never having met the criteria in the first place.  At stackoverflow.com, I answered  about C++. I originally intended to comment on one of the existing answers (the one existing answer, technically), but either couldn't find (after three minutes) a button or link to do that, or I do not have the required privileges to comment answers yet. Thus I opted for adding my comment as an answer.  When I posted the answer, the page notified me that I have earned the "Teacher Badge" for "answering a question with rank +1 or more" (not exact wording). With it, I also got some privileges such as chat mode. However, what I did does not technically count as answering the question, as it was a comment on an existing question -- the question itself is, already, answered. For that I feel it is kinda unfair that I have earned the badge and privileges, so I'd like to ask if there is a way to un-award the badge, remove the privileges or something.  Unfortunately I'm not that self-criticizing as to downvote my own answer, and besides it is possible the site awards me with yet another badge if I did it anyway, thus adding to the irony.  Thanks in advance.
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With regards to  post about  and the part about retaining reputation earned from deleted posts that have a score of 3 or better and were visible on the site for 60 days, does this also apply to self-deleted posts and will it continue to do so? I culled a few of my own answers over the weekend that were less than stellar, and my reputation dropped 1.8k, but the rep is back today after the changes were announced. I thought it would be useful to clarify that this also applies to self-deleted stuff.
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Question-related badges are far too easy to obtain. Badges awarded to those who ask questions greatly outweigh those which are awarded for answers. Of course, it doesn't help that there are more question-related badges, however the main culprit is the set of badges which are based on question views: Popular Question (1,000 views), Notable Question (2,500 views) and Famous Question (10,000 views).    Firstly, lets take a look at the top three  for each category (Bronze, Silver and Gold):  Gold   Famous Question (62,192) Fanatic (8,076) Great Answer (6,928)   The Famous Question badge has been awarded more times than all other Gold badges combined.  Silver   Notable Question (345,834) Yearling (231,080) Necromancer (72,875)   There are more Notable Question badges than the second-most and third-most Silver badges combined.  Bronze   Popular Question (878,622) Student (606,325) Editor (477,659)   As you can see, the view-related badges dominate all 3 badge categories by a long way.    One of the most viewed questions on StackOverflow is "" with an impressive 573,219 views, 2,410 upvotes and 1,143 favourites.  This is a famous question.  The three most recent Famous Question badges were awarded for "", "" and "".  Combined these questions amount to 30,000 views, 6 upvotes and 0 favourites. One of which is closed!  These simply aren't famous questions.    Proposed Change  I think a more fitting system would be:   Popular Question : Ask a question with 5,000 views, at least 5 upvotes and 1 favourite. Notable Question : Ask a question with 15,000 views, at least 10 upvotes and 2 favourites. Famous Question : Ask a question with 75,000 views, at least 30 upvotes and 5 favourites.
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These badges were only recently added to StackExchange. I would like to know if there is any way I can find out how many more questions I should ask to get these badges.   For e.g. like the counters for the review-related badges:
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I have a situation where different users have asked questions and I answered them. The problem is not that they haven't accepted the answer which can tell me that it is correct or not. But they are actually not responsive and it seems to me that answer is being ignored. Or they asked the question just for the sake of asking.  See -the user was last seen yesterday, the same day it was answered.  -the user was last seen today.   which is also upvoted by a fellow user, but the OP is seen till days after it was answered and is not even commenting.  I went through a lot of question on meta on similar situation such as  where Anna says that it is completely voluntary for users to accept it.   But then again, I believe it is becoming a fashion, to ask a question read the answer as a suggestion and leave it.  It is discouraging me. I am not saying that my answers or suggestions are 100 percent working but I atleast need be told so I can improve it. And more importantly I am not the only one facing this.  Please advise.  EDIT : Well, I got a lot of suggestions from the answers and comments combined below and I have to say that I agree with what Cody Gray has to say and just keep on answering the questions, the returns(good or bad) may be now,later or never and just move on. However, in my own defence I would also say that I did not raised this question to pin point any user but a bad practice that I find worthy of discussing. Thanks.
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For the first answer criterion for the Enlightened badge, is the first answer the one   that remains, excluding deleted answers; or that ever was, including deleted answers   As for the suggestion, if it were the latter, can we please make it the former?  It would make sense to exclude squatters from the equation if they later retract their answer from the question (having reached no good solution).
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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 :)