Which badges on this site are so rare very few people have earned them? Please tell me a badge that has less than ten people who have earned it. Also please don’t tell me badges that no one ever earned and never will. Please do tell me badges that no one has earned but can earn. Thank you for helping me.
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Which is the rarest badge awarded/the least popular one/the one hardest to get?
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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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Is there a way to view your own progress towards certain badges? For example:   Tumbleweed - What value constitutes low views for a week? Fanatic  – Is there a way to view how many days in a row you currently have? Beta – Is it even possible to get this badge anymore?
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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 :)
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There are currently two badges for questions favorited by a certain number of users:     Favorite Question Question favorited by 25 users   Stellar Question Question favorited by 100 users   Why isn't there a bronze badge for a question favorited by 10 users? This would fit with the pattern of Nice/Good/Great badges for questions/answers, which require 10/25/100 votes. Thanks!
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I was browsing badges right now, and saw that the Analytical badge has been retired. I tried searching how to get one, but found out that it cannot be obtained now - thanks to  question.   Well, I was shocked to see that on clicking on that badge, there were several users who had obtained the badge recently - as recently as 3 hours ago. Is that a bug, or is there some hidden way to obtain the badge still?
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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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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?
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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.
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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.
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With all the buzz around this new “Saving-the-frigging-world-o-meter”  in the new profiles, I think we're due for some new badges! What say you? Perhaps something along the lines of:       Impressive - Reached ~500k people.       Impactful - Reached ~1 million people.       Monumental - Reached ~2 million people. * Badge names and numeric values for illustrative purposes only.
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I just randomly looked at the , and there it lists two yearling badges, both awarded with about five minutes time difference on Aug 16. Actually, this user is here for 2 years and five months, and also hit his 200-rep mark long ago.  What is going on here?
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Earning badges on StackExchange is, well, fun. But aside from that it promotes quality interaction from users and helps weed out spam (I have never seen a spam post on the site).  I have a community website with about 500 active users, but the spammers are starting to become more prolific.  I would like a way to make the site more engaging while promoting the same quality of interactivity.  How would you recommend to put in a good reputation system, as well as a goal achievement system?
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I really like how, in the winter bash, there are hats. They are pretty cool and actually encourage me to get badges, something I didn't care about before. I think there should be something like this, but all year round, to encourage people to get badges. Badges, to me, seem currently pretty useless and I never want to get any because...there is no good reason to. Hats: well, hats are just awesome
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Or maybe some other variation of that, like "20 downvotes anywhere within 1 day". Probably it should be bronze regardless.  It seems like there's a  against this badge, but that'd be fine. It's just for fun anyway. :D  Well, maybe it will be an incentive for most not getting that. I don't know.  edit: What about this other perspective - out of over 40 badges, all for "good behavior" none is actually "awarded" for "bad behavior". So, having at least 1 could give us a better idea of how people are behaving in the "bad manner". As for how people would actually react to that, I say that guessing here is pure speculation.
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When I go  I see a pretty, 'at-a-glance', alphabetically ordered, list of badges with my badges checked. Can I see this checklist for other users?  If not, do you think it's worth implementing? Consider that the list of badges at the bottom of the user page is not a good summary view and doesn't allow you to quickly see which badges the person does or does not have.
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Just got the  on StackOverflow and, since it can be awarded multiple times, wanted to start tracking progress to the next one, but, the badge is not shown in Available badges to track anymore:    Is it possible to track already awarded badges that can be awarded multiple times?