I am presently 30 days away from earning the gold ; however, in retrospect, I feel that this badge, and the silver , when compared to other silver and gold badges, are far too easy to attain.  In my opinion, the difficulty of the Enthusiast badge should make it a bronze badge, not silver, and the Fanatic badge a silver, not gold. My perspective is that a gold badge should be something that takes a considerable amount of dedication, effort, and/or hard work to attain, just like all of the other gold badges.    If you look at our present numbers, there are over 64,000 people that have earned the Enthusiast badge, and well over 10,000 that have earned the gold Fanatic badge.  And when you compare these numbers to many of the other silver and gold badge, the numbers just don't line up.  I'm not expecting a 1:1 relationship here, but I am expecting to see a similar pattern of a low percentage of people earning the gold badge; however, in this case, there are many more people earning the gold Fanatic badge, than there are people earning many of the silver badges! It's just way to skewed IMO.  So, I have the following suggestions to remedy this:   Enthusiast badge: Change from Silver to Bronze, keeping the existing requirement, "Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days." Fanatic badge: Change from Gold to Silver, keeping the existing requirement, "Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive days." Add a new gold badge:     Possible names: A. "Devoted" B. "Dedicated" C. "Habitual" D. "Zealous"   Eligibility: "Visited the site each day for 365 consecutive days."    I feel that this change will put these new bronze, silver, and gold badges in alignment with many of the other badges in regards to difficulty and/or amount of effort.
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:   Silver  Enthusiast    Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days   56.9k awarded Bronze  Mortarboard   Earned at least 200 reputation in a single day      15.4k awarded    It would seem that earning Enthusiast requires almost no effort while Mortarboard is highly non-trivial. This appears to be reflected in the award count (almost 4:1 in favor of enthusiasts).  So, why is the first one silver and the second one bronze?  (A similar question can be asked about Epic vs Fanatic and probably many other).
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As we announced in our post on  to the Review Queues, the Steward badge can now be earned more than once per queue. The purpose of this post is not to debate the merits of this decision ( already exists), but to explain the nuts and bolts of how it will be backfilled. This is how it will appear on your profile if you have earned it multiple times:  Once we push the visual design changes live across the network, this is how badge attainment will look on /review/close/stats:  For those of you who have already completed enough reviews to earn multiple Steward badges, we will be retroactively awarding them to you, starting today. The backfill script will run about twice an hour, and your achievements trophy will light up as each one is awarded. For those of you who have done thousands and thousands of reviews, things may be a bit noisy, so we thank you in advance for your patience. It may take up to two days for all of your badges to show up.
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I saw that it has been already reported that also they have earned courious badge but the badge has not been given. but their answers say that they must wait a day and the badge will be awarded.  In my case its 8/5 and it was 5/5 long time ago and I have never received a message telling that I have earned it. its just telling me that the next badge to be awarded is Curious badge.  this is my profile:
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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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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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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 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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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?
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As of today, "Autobiographer" will be awarded to anyone fills out the free-form "About Me" field on their profile.  We will be awarding it retroactively, so you don't need to do anything if you already filled out your "About Me" to receive it.  (But be patient, we're awarding them in batches for the next day or two.)  Why the change?  Previously, getting the badge required you to fill in all the profile fields, some of which were public (website, location, etc.) and some of which were private (age, real name, etc.).  But, those requirements weren't aligned that well with the two main goals we have for Autobiographer:   It's a great introduction to the Badge system. It's one of only two badges ("Informed" is the other) that a new user, with no rep, can go earn instantly, without relying on others doing something, or having a specific question or answer. It did a nice job of giving those users who click the (top-level) "badge" tab on the home page a way to experience the re-enforcement system at work: Do something the community encourages, get a shiny thing as feedback - "keep that up." We think having an "identity" in online communities increases your desire to treat those communities with respect, and care about how the community views them. Don't get me wrong, we have some amazing users who are completely anonymous, but at the end of the day, we think the more you have an "identity" here (even if it's not linked to your real-world one), the less likely you are to be a jerk.  At least in ways you think are jerky, anyway. For the most part, the more anonymous a system is, the higher the percent of nonsense and nastiness gets.   So if you like identity so much, why not encourage more of it, by giving the badge for filling out all the fields?  There were a few things that felt off with the old requirements:   "Website" was a frustrating, dumb requirement, since many people don't have one (using the traditional meaning).  So they either put gibberish, a twitter handle, hacked the system with a space in the field, or just figured they must not belong here, since everyone else here must have one. A lot of the fields felt too personal to many people.  "Age" and "Real Name" in particular rubbed some people the wrong way as a "requirement" for anything, even something as silly as a badge. It made some people's first introduction to the "feedback reinforcement system" (okay, the "game") feel like the game was to drive behaviors that help us gather data, maybe so we can someday turn it into data-dollars.     The last one is particularly unfortunate for two reasons:   The game is supposed to reinforce behavior that supports the community.  We have to make a buck to keep things going, but the reinforcement system shouldn't go anywhere near that side of the business. And it wasn't - we don't use that data in any real valuable way. Or almost any way at all.  The only thing I could find that we ever use most of it for is an annual aggregate survey/report on what our users look like.  Put another way, we don't even care much about it, so making users think the game was part of some monetization scheme made them less enthused about the system based on something we weren't even doing intentionally.   If the badge is supposed to encourage you to feel more like you've chosen an identity here, it should be based on what you choose to share, not a bunch of stats that we might think are useful to others.   So, those of you who took the time to share something about yourself in "About Me" in the past, but didn't fill out some other fields, your day has come. And if any of you dreamed of seeing that badge glinting on your profile page, but resented some of the fields, go put what you want to share with the community in the "About Me", and it's all yours.  Note: We're awarding these in batches, so it may take a day or two for it to show up on your profile.
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Look at the profile page of , who has just "lost" 100k reputation and all their bronze badges, because of this broken design.  Shouldn't the primary usercard be kept intact no matter how other elements grow?  P.S. So many design bugs these days, did SE do a large CSS refactory?  P.P.S  that squeezes the right pane ( to reproduce)
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Update #2: Seems that it was my secondary screen the one that didn't show the color! Tried with another screen and I could see the progress clearer... perhaps a stronger color will make it easier to see across different devices?  Update: Seems to be an issue in Firefox, as I tried on Chrome and the progress is visible.    I just noticed that the badge progress on your user profile had it's style changed (don't know when but it seems that recently).  However, seems that the progress of gold badges is not working properly. If we see the Bronze and Silver badges, they are "filled with color" as you progress on the badge, however golden ones are not colored (just the border).   Here a picture illustrating what I say:    Is there a reason for this behavior?
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The description states:     earn 150 reputation points on three different sites (not including Stack Overflow) within 15 days.     I have 3 questions:   Does this mean that if I earn 150 reputation combined on 3 sites, eg. 100 rep on Meta Stack Exchange and 50 rep on Ask Different, I would get this badge? Does Meta Stack Exchange count? Is this being awarded now since it states 'within 15 days'?
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I visited Stack Overflow for about 82 days in a row (starting January 21st), including yesterday (April 13th) and today (April 14th).  All times UTC of course (I thought that was clear but I've now added it to my question as a relevant info).  All visits are in a logged-in session of course.  I've just discovered that SO didn't "see" the April 13th visit, so my consecutive days visits were zeroed !!  It's a bug for sure. I have open tabs which my browser's history shows that are from April 13th. More than 20 of them. I saw this one:  , and it's clearly what happened to me. Please help! I'm so close to getting the Fanatic badge...
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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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Would it be possible to change the gold badge shape/style or something. I have a monitor that is really f-in bright and with the new white background badges, I have a hard time distinguishing gold and bronze badges.    Some of you may not have a problem telling the difference, but I'm getting old and decrepit! Also I bet some colorblind people would appreciate it too!  whacks you with my cane for laughing when I said I was old and decrepit
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After seeing the Analytical badge, I visited every page in the FAQ.  I waited a few days, then came here to see if I could find any questions about why it never showed up in my profile.  It was then that I read that the badge was no longer working as of June 2013 (I must have missed this by DAYS, darn it!) due to the Help page restructure.    Since the badge is no longer being awarded in the future, but has been awarded in the past, maybe a designation of "(Retired)" next to it might eliminate some confusion?  I think there's another badge that was only given out in Beta that probably deserves that designation as well.  Just a suggestion.
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I am, apparently, one of 12 people with the gold tag badge for feature-request and one of 39 people with the gold tag badge for discussion here on meta.se.  I hadn't realized this until I cast a close as duplicate vote, then was shocked (and awed) by the power unleashed. Unicorns came from everywhere and swept the question off into duplicate land so fast I was left breathless!  While I certainly don't mind thinking of myself as a feature request or discussion expert, given that you have to tag every question with at least one of the four tags, bug, feature-request, discussion, support then being an expert in these tags may not mean as much, since they are so general and prevalent. Other gold tag badges would indicate expertise in a specific area, such as badges, or chat, but the required tags are fairly non-specific.  There are only 76 people with , so it's probably not a problem to be fixed immediately, and I'll just have to be more thoughtful about my dupe closing here on meta, but consider removing required tags from these new powers on sites where specific tags are required.