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Let's integrate Ask Ubuntu badges with the operating system!
Jono and Marco have been working on integrating the Ask Ubuntu badges you earn here with the Ubuntu Accomplishment system.
This is basically badges, but at a higher project level, so of course we ...
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What copyright license are the Badge images under?
I am working on a desktop application that displays information about what badges a user has earned from AskUbuntu.com, and we would like to display them using the same badge images (though scaled to ...
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How to get Vox Populi badge
If I know right i can use maximum 30 votes in day. How can i get Vox Populi badge when it needs 40 votes:
Vox Populi Used the maximum 40 votes in a day.
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Is it a good or a bad sign that I get the "notable question" badge for a zero-votes question?
I just got the "notable question" badge for Let Xorg listen on TCP, but only to localhost?. This means the question got 2500 views ...
It is my first notable-question badge at all on the SE network, ...
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Illuminator badge, too hard to get?
Looking through the badges page today, I noticed there is only a single badge that no one has ever earned here, the Illuminator badge.
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Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions ...
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What is required to become a moderator?
I can see some moderators editing posts here...
These moderators have little reputation points such as 100 approx. and few silver and bronze badges.
I wish to know what it takes to be a moderator on ...
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Custom badges on Ask Ubuntu
My question is can new badges be added or removed from the already list of existing badges?
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What constitutes an "edit" for badges?
What counts as editing, specifically for badges such as Strunk & White, Copy Editor, Excavator and Archaeologist?
Does retagging count?
Editing my own posts?
Rollbacks? (I assume so.)
Flagging?
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What's the purpose of the Reversal badge?
No one has ever been awarded this badge, what is the purpose of having it?
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Unsung Hero Badges
It says Zero Score Accepted Answers more than 10 and at least quarter of the total.
How is the count of Zero Score Accepted Answers taken?
LATEST EDIT: Are answers to own questions also taken into ...
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Privilege for editing tags is at 500 rep but I already have done it before!
When I go to privileges, I see that at 500 reputation I will get the privilege to edit tags to questions.
But the strange thing is that I have already edited tags before.
It also says that I will ...
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Better Understanding Badges
There are a couple of Badges that i do not understand the explanation they have on how to obtain them. For example:
Epic Badge (Silver) - Earned at least 200 reputation on 50 days
Does that mean ...
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Enthusiast badge
I was hoping for enthusiast badge which requires 30 consecutive days of visit.On 27/10/2015 around 00.10 am,it was showing 7/30 means 7 days out of 30 but today it is displaying 1/30.If anyone could ...
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Badge doesn't update reputation in real-time
My Ask Ubuntu badge is inserted on my personal blog. So, when I visit my blog or I write on it, I can also check my status updates. But today, I have observed that the updates are not not in real-time,...
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Badges descriptions should be rewritten
Taking this as base: Better Understanding Badges
many badges descriptions should be rewritten for the user to understand them better. There are a lot that can be understood in several ways and if ...
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edit count difference
There is a difference in approved edits and actual edits in my profile
Editor Stats shows
Mudit Kapil had 503 edit suggestions approved, and 67 edit suggestions rejected
But Badge progress shows ...
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2 tags meaning the same (Badge and Badges
There are 2 tags with the same purpose: Badge and Badges. I think badges should be used instead of badge since it includes one or many badges.
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I do not understand some of the badges
Specifically , the "good answer" and "great answer" two, it seems I have a few answers which would qualify.
Keep the Ubuntu package version I'm using now
That answer has 5 upvotes.
It is not ...
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Mortarboard / Epic / Legendary badges threshold too high?
I was looking through badges, and I've noticed that those three actually have a really high threshold to be reached in order to be awarded (compared to the difficulty of the task itself), proven by ...
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Badge cheating?
I came across a user with low rep but a gold famous question badge and was curious. It seems his question (the only one he has) was marked as a duplicate of the actual famous question.
This seems to ...
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Why Is Main site not giving appropriate badge for reading FAQ?
Have mentioned this in chat a few weeks ago and as others have referred to SE system in other answers here in meta thought would ask for advice regarding the reasons or possibilities to why i have not ...
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What is a positive question record? [duplicate]
The question says it all:
What is a positive question record? You need this for the Curious badge, so what is it?
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Should Canonical employees have special badges?
I've been reading some questions where the answer was given by an employee of Canonical, the company sponsoring Ubuntu. I thought it would be a good idea if users who are employees of Canonical (or ...
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