I have asked 9 well-received questions over 8 days, yet my count is still 6/30 on the Inquisitive badge:    I've had this problem before:    The answer, it turns out, was some kind of caching issue.  Is that still the case?
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A couple of months ago, I suggested a set of badges for . The responses were... mixed. The  can be summarized:  In practice, all this would do is encourage people to ask yet more stupid, worthless questions and we have quite enough of that as it is.  We believe that one of the main things holding back many of our beta sites is that when people have questions they aren't in the habit of asking on the site. Even our flagship site, Stack Overflow, doesn't get many questions from its most knowledgeable users. Perhaps they don't have questions, but far more likely they find answers without needing to ask. Our subtle bias against asking (questions =&gt; clueless) means we lose out on what might be our best source of excellent questions. So we went back to the drawing board and designed a badge set that should not encourage worthless questions:  Asked a well-received question on X separate days, and maintained a positive question record.  In order to award badges, we need to define our terms:  positive question record   (total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions &gt;= 0.5  It triple counts a question that is downvoted, closed, and deleted. If you ask one that hits that trifecta, you'll need to ask three better questions to dig yourself out. My own record of asking does not meet the criteria:   (44 - 0 - 12 - 12)/44 = 0.4545...  My  looks a lot better; I had a bunch of questions from the beta period that have been subsequently (and rightfully) deleted. With care, I could bring my record into positive territory with 4 questions. The takeaway is that people can't sweep past indiscretions under the rug by deleting them. And they can recover from a bad start as long as they don't ask more bad questions.  well-received question on X separate days A well-received question is one that's open, not deleted, and has a score &gt; 0. If you ask at least one well-received question in a  and none of your questions that day are deleted, downvoted, or closed, you get one more day of credit toward the badge. Whenever the badge criteria is checked, previous asking days are re-evaluated so that there's an incentive to fix downvoted and/or closed questions. The no-deleted-questions criteria is to prevent people from asking several questions at once and deleting any that aren't upvoted or answered to ask another day. (Though this is a losing strategy in the long run.)   My proposed badge names and levels:  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. In addition, since some outstanding individuals ask on more than 100 days, the gold badge may be awarded multiple times. Over on English, Oishi-sama (now a ) would have a remarkable . Bronze and silver badges are only awarded once. We've decided to hold off on multiple awards for now. See the . Neither the names nor the levels nor even the descriptions are set in stone. Please play around with  to get an idea of how the badge works using our public data. Since the query does not account for deleted questions, it's a bit more generous than the actual badges would be. This version of the badge set should encourage a habit of well-received questions over time and encourage people to fix poorly received questions.  I'd like to express my gratitude to the Parenting community for participating in our .
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Today I've got 10 upvotes for an answer. Answer was a first answer in the question. I got an Nice Answer badge for this, but no Enlightened badge.  Shouldn't I get both?  is my answer :)
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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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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'm a tad confused about the number that appears next to the tag score and tag in my profile. It says I'm at 202 (which would be eligible for the badge), but when I hover over it, I see the following information:    Unless math has changed recently, 31 and 158 do not add up to 202. So where did this number even come from? The only thing I can think of is that deleted posts are being included in that count, but why? Why would my questions even be included in that count?  Considering that the tag score at the left only includes your score from answers, why does the count at the right not also only include answers? Consistency here is out of whack. I like being able to hover over it to see the full details, but the number there should be 158, because my score of 1k is from those 158 answers, not from the questions or the deleted posts (I presume).  Note: This is not a caching issue since I have had no reputation changes on my account since the tag score recalculations at 03:00 UTC, at the time of taking that screenshot.
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Poking around the people's profiles to see how the  I keep seeing things like this:  It looks strange to have a 25/5 progress on a badge, but the dialog explains that what this user is missing is a positive record of asking. The  is: (total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions &gt;= 0.5  If you look at , it's hard to see how his asking record could be anything but exceptional. According to  his asking record is 0.875. The problem is that he asked many of his questions in the early days of the site that were well-received, but later deleted. Some were deleted after the question was . My suggestion is that we change the asking record formula: (total questions - negative questions - closed - early deleted)/total questions &gt;= 0.5  The early deleted variable counts only questions deleted within 60 days of being asked. I picked 60 days because it's the dividing line between being able to . After looking through the list of people who would get the Curious badge on Stack Overflow with this change, I noticed a few things:  Many of them have self-deleted questions on their record. Often these are questions that were asked and basically ignored. After a few months, the original asker went back and deleted their question. It's hard to know what happened in each individual case, but my guess is that they never found a solution to their specific question and worked around the issue instead. (I have a few of those, but I'm not courteous enough to delete them.)  These users don't tend to ask the same question over and over again. I ran a similar test that excluded self-deleted questions. That group included a lot of cases of people asking a question, not getting an answer after a day or two, deleting the question, and asking the same question again. This strategy doesn't work if you wait two months to delete your first question.  Two mods (George Stocker and Gordon), Tim Post, and myself are on the list of users who would get a Curious badge under this system. On Meta Stack Exchange 5 current employees would be newly eligible for the badge. In my (admittedly biased) opinion, these are curious users.  I did some spot check on the lower end of the reputation scale. Every user I looked at fit my model of the ideal recipient of the Curious badge; they asked mostly upvoted questions with few closed questions. This change would add about 3286 new Curious badges on Stack Overflow, so there will certainly be a few exceptions I didn't find. But I think they are more than balanced by the clearly deserving users who will be awarded new badges.    Proposal: For the Curious, Inquisitive, and Socratic badges, don't count questions deleted 60 or more days after asking as deleted for the purposes of calculating asking record. These questions may still count as negatively scored or closed, if applicable. Days that include deleted questions, no matter when they are deleted, do not count toward the days asked criteria.   Modified Proposal: For the Curious, Inquisitive, and Socratic badges, don't count questions deleted or closed 60 or more days after asking as deleted or closed for the purposes of calculating asking record. These questions may still count as negatively scored, if applicable. Days that include deleted or closed questions, no matter when they are deleted or closed, do not count toward the days asked criteria. On Stack Overflow, that would add about 665 Curious badges, including two more for moderators (casperOne and 0x7fffffff) and one for an employee (Oded). On the opposite end of the reputation scale my spot checks are a bit muddier. Instead of a small number of deleted (and usually closed) questions, this list turns up users whose latest questions still aren't all that interesting. Even so, on balance a few extraneous bronze badges seem worthwhile in exchange for acknowledging truly curious users.
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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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I deleted an answer to one of my  after discovering that the answer I proposed didn't work.  My next update reported that I'd been awarded the tumbleweed badge, so I assume that was the question that earned it for me.  Giving the badge for a question that did have an answer strikes me as a bit odd though, and I'm wondering it it's a bug.
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We have an  and I noticed the badges are not loading in the election statistics like they should be. It just hangs forever loading badge information:    Unfortunately I blew off reporting this for a couple days figuring it would resolve itself, but it doesn't seem to be a temporary problem.
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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.
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(Posted here as probably applies to all sites).  I was examining my reputation gain yesterday on Stack Overflow: 190. I believe I should have hit the 200 cap. Mainly due to         Respectively, I had 10, 7, 3, and 2 upvotes on those questions alone. There are a couple of other minnows in the list but the above alone should enable me to hit the cap.  There was a user removed sometime yesterday which knocked off 10 points (and possibly accounts for the disparity) but I think (1) the cap should have been recalibrated and (2) I answered (3) after this event before turning in for the night.  I checked all the usual suspects: the reputation graph on your profile and  the achievements tab, but they are all showing 190.
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I've just been awarded the  bage!  Whooo, go me (didn't even realise it existed)!  =D I'm curious to know which of my (all rather mundane) comments has brought for me such honour. I found , which suggests using .  However, that query shows that I have only 2 comments with a score of 5 or more and I can't see anything wrong with the query... Do I not deserve this shiny new badge?  :(
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I very recently earned the below badge. But I am sorry, I do not understand it.    It says      Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 answers in the java tag.   But I have answered 140 questions under Java tag and pretty sure would have earned more than 100 points. Then why did I receive it so late. Currently I have 3.3K points on SO.  Secondly if so, I have answered about 41 questions under Scala tag, then why didn't I receive this badge for Scala?
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After the , I can now see question counts.  I noticed that my preferred settings (new questions, recommended tags, sort by active) returns a set of 96 questions.    What (if any) is the significance of 96 questions?
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(or at least those of use who have asked positive questions), is there going to be any change to the rep required for, as an example, ? I can see myself suddenly getting a significant chunk of rep, and that may push me past the 25k boundary required for "Access to site analytics". I'm not any more knowledgeable than I was prior to the calculation though, so does this make sense?  Are rep boundaries like those for the association bonus, privileges, commenting etc. going to be adjusted? Or is this adjustment meant to more accurately reflect the site knowledge associated with asking a good question, so no change will happen?
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Well, I already searched meta as well as cleared my browser cache.  I realize this may be a SO cache problem, but it still seems kind of strange to me.    The deleted question is (assuming it still exists).  Shouldn't deleted questions only be visible to 10k users?  I'm only at 2k.
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Some badges like the  requires one to be the first to answer. I have cases where my answer was accepted like , and the answer previous to mine was deleted, thus making my answer the only one.  Is a deleted answer counted as the first answer?  Does it prevents a question for awarding the "first to answer" type of badges?  I understand that some answers might be related to experience, but I would be inclined to accept an answer that provide an official documented reference.