As far as I know all badges being earned once will be never retracted, e.g. when votes are changed on vote dependent badge like “great answer” etc. But what if the badge was earned by serial voting of unrelated to the badge owner user and when that user(s) is(are) suspended for creating sock puppet accounts. Should the badge be retracted? I think it should. Looking for the community opinions.
In  (not feature request), :  ... if we find that people are abusing the system their accounts may get suspended. I would consider that kind of behavior abuse.  Well  sure qualifies. He has 11 Stack Exchange accounts and has in the last day spammed at least 8 of them to gain the Suffrage and sometimes Vox Populi badges. That's over 250 votes† in just a few hours! (And  -- while voting on other user's posts too.) I guarantee that he's not voting on those posts for/by their merits. Here's when he scammed the Suffrage badge per site (while also gaming the Vox Populi on some sites):                      - 2017-03-11 16:23:15Z                     - 2017-03-11 17:41:41Z                     - 2017-03-11 18:08:13Z                           - 2017-03-11 19:25:10Z                  - 2017-03-11 19:55:16Z                               - 2017-03-11 20:00:49Z               - 2017-03-11 20:03:13Z  - 2017-03-11 21:11:40Z  Note that he got the badge on three sites within an 8 minute span (but that might just be job run times). Please revoke badges gained through improper voting. And, maybe also warn/suspend such abusive voters.   † His account vote totals don't show all votes as some serial voting was reversed -- but none of the ill-gotten badges were.
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