Summary: My question is not about why I have not got the badge, but rather the misleading progress display.  There are quite some posts about this topic. Most of them are marked either duplicate or closed. This topic is slightly different here is why,  To get curious badge a user must Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record. Agreed!  The formula to calculate if I am eligible for this badge is total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions &gt;= 0.5. Totally fine!   The best example what I can give why I think the count is shown wrong is I can't have 7 apples out of 5! How can I have 29/5 on the badge? I think the way the numbers are displaying is misleading.  Here are the few questions which talk about this issue but they are answered with you don't have +ve track. This answer doesn't really help. Again, how can I have 29 apples out of 5?
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As you can see in the picture, I have 13 out of 5. But it's been like this for about two months! What's the reason for that?
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Do badges get calculated in real time, or do they get calculated by an external service? How long does it take for a badge to be awarded, once its requirements are met?  Does Stack Overflow use any external services to do things, like maintenance, e-mailing or badge calculation?
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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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The counter for the Copy Editor badge progress is off by double digits in my profile. As you can see, I've had 100 edit suggestions accepted, but the progress counter shows 75:    Also, you can see yet a third count in my activity section:    I actually noticed the discrepancy a while back, but I was curious the badges would end up being based on the real count or the incorrect count in the progress stats, so I decided to wait until I reached 80 before posting on meta. When I reached 80, I realized that the badge progress counter is decremented when a post you've edited is removed, so I waited until I was over 80 not including removed posts. Then I waited until I was well above that threshold, just to be sure.   Based on the rep reversals in my profile, only 9 of the 100 posts I've edited have been removed. The 98 in the activity log makes sense, because I've seen that those entries go away when the post they refer to is deleted, so the number is the total number of edits (accepted and rejected) minus the number removed. There's one extra (100 approved + 6 rejected - 9 removed = 97, but the activity section's counter shows 98), but I'm sure there's a simple and logical explanation.  However, I can't explain why the badge progress counter only shows 75 when I have 91 accepted edits that haven't been removed. I'm not sure how rollbacks affect the count, but I find it unlikely that more than 16 of my edits have been rolled back. I'm not aware of any except one that I rolled back myself after realizing it was a mistake, even though it was approved.  Also, as of this writing I don't have the Strunk &amp; White badge, even though I passed 80 in the number of approved edits minus the number removed about a week ago. So, it appears that the badges are based on the same query that produces the flawed badge progress counter.  [I edited the title to make it clear to the tomato-throwers that this was intended as a "I noticed a discrepancy, why don't the numbers add up?" question, not a "Hey, no fair, where's my badge??" question. The discrepancy was explained in the accepted answer.]
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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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On the "Next tag badge" panel of  for C# tag, I see:      92/100 score   88/20 answers     But, when I open the "Select your next badge" panel, there's:     97/100 score   90/20 answers       I'm not sure which one is correct. But I believe that both displays should show the same counts.  The discrepancy is not due to a caching, I've noticed it the first time many weeks ago.  For these particular current counts: I have a single C# answer with 3 votes only in the last 5 days, last upvoted 13 hours ago (2015-10-12 19:30:05Z). So it should not cause the 5 votes and 2 answers difference.  I believe that the counters on the "Select your next badge" are correct and the counters on the "Next tag badge" are wrong, as I have:     Asked 1 non-wiki question with a total score of 6. Gave 90 non-wiki answers with a total score of 97.       Today (2015-10-16), the "Next tag badge" got bumped to 97/100. But "Select your next badge" shows 98/100 already.
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I shared a link to a question and now I am wondering whether I am almost going to get an announcer badge.  Can I somehow see which links I shared and how many clicks were on it for the last days?  Update:  Maybe this would be a nice feature. Next to any question you can see who has promoted it the most (number of fresh hits from a referer link) and also the amount of new ip's through search engine's and other referring sites.  Note the progress feature should include the Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges.
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Checking my badges on SO I noticed that the information about my badges is not complete. For example, there is no information about the year when a current badge was earned.
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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 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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"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 noted a fact on Stack Overflow badges.  ● Nice Answer  × 39355 ● Nice Question × 7601   (5.2:1 rate)  ● Good Answer  × 6433 ● Good Question × 1199   (5.3:1 rate)  ● Great Answer  × 712 ● Great Question × 105   (6.8:1 rate)  All in all, since the badges are awarded for the same amount of accumulated votes in each category, it appears that people tend to vote more for the answers than the questions...  Just a thought...
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The simple equation that decides whether you get question banned or not is:  (total questions - negative score questions - closed questions)/total questions &gt;= 0.5   And closed questions probably includes deleted questions too. For example, a new user asks a question, and the question gets:   Downvoted, stays at negative score Deleted before 30 days from posting time Closed   The equation above would not work as:  (total questions - negative score questions - closed questions) &lt; 0.5   Which means question ban. But that is way too early to get banned. It seems that the user has to reach a certain number of questions or rep or time for the above equation to be implied towards the user. I have a small grip on the subject myself. So when does the question ban equation get applied?
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The  badge seems like a great candidate for a trackable badge: it requires doing a thing multiple times, there aren't any other requirements to get it, and it is (seems?) quite easy to determine how many times the thing has been done.  But Convention does not appear in the list of badges that can be tracked. I would like to be able to see a quick count of my well-received meta posts without going to my meta user activity page and poking around.
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This proposal was superseded , which improves on the core concept.   Early on, there was a question about whether Stack Overflow should . At the time,  was:  Getting answers is reward enough for asking questions.  Even then, Stack Overflow was getting more than enough questions, so it didn't make much sense to incentivize more questions.  lists the badges that can be earned by asking quality questions. (There are at least 8). But looking at the list of recent , it looks more like a list of . These badges are difficult to come by in the first place, and they're much harder to earn on sites like  even though there are some  on that site. It turns out that . We , but we still need plenty of oysters. The Student bronze badge is awarded for the first upvoted1 question. There are no equivalent gold or silver badges. Therefore, I'd like to propose the following:  Student—Asked first question with score of 1 or more Sophomore—Asked 10 questions with score of 1 or more Socrates—Asked 50 questions with score of 1 or more  Do you have any suggestions of better names/levels?  To give you an idea of how many of these badges would be awarded, I wrote . The results2 for the original trilogy: users   gold silver bronze none    Site Name  ------- ---- ------ ------ ------- ---------  3000344 7127 67713  805778 2194566 Stack Overflow 235053  115  1698   53073  181980  Super User 156773  53   1191   40063  116710  Server Fault  The gold version on SO would be slightly more rare than  and more common than . Obviously, there would be fewer badges for smaller sites: 5545    1    18     917    4628    Philosophy 4032    4    41     802    3230    History  5663    3    28     917    4746    Parenting   Several older sites would get none at all: 5778    null 29     1063   4715    Quantitative Finance 7884    null 20     927    6957    Project Management 4333    null 17     1630   2703    Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Repair  These smaller sites get at most . I suspect that a gold or silver badge would encourage site regulars to increase that number without sacrificing quality. Certainly the requirement for those questions to stay in positive territory would prevent a person from flooding the site3 with terrible questions in order to get the badge.   1. The [original spec](https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/07/stack-overflow-badge-feedbac/) didn't consider voting at all for Student and Teacher.   2. Your results will vary from mine since I'm looking at slightly newer data. The bronze badge count also differs from the number of [Student](https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/2/student) badges because the badge isn't revoked when a user's question is later downvoted or deleted.   3. There is a potential problem with cookie-cutter or variation-on-a-theme questions. However, I think the typical tools for closing and deleting questions will prevent people from gaming the system for these badges.
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Did the margins for the silver &amp; gold specialty badges change recently? I reached 400 votes for the , but it's been ~2 days and still haven't been awarded the badge.  I gather there's a delay to make sure votes aren't reversed/etc...  On a side note, what does it take to get a Citizen Patrol badge?  I've flagged numerous things, comments and questions alike.
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The Famous Question badge is awarded for question with 10.000 views.   I've seen questions with negative scores to be used as a reference to golden Famous Question badges. Why isn't there an additional requirement to have positive score on that question?  Is the intention of this badge to indicate helpful and interesting question or just number of views?