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What does the golden dot after the username in close banners represent?
Users usually don't have any extra symbol after their names. Only moderators have the diamond symbol. But today I saw a golden dot after a name on a close banner of a question.
What is this and who ...
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Why is sportsmanship considered under the moderation badges in election statistics?
I was looking at the election page and was surprised how some of the nominees don't have 100% of the moderation badges. Only to find out it was the sportsmanship badge that is missing.
That badge ...
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Can we earn badges by sharing a link somewhere other than Twitter and Facebook?
As far as I understand from the related page, at the moment we can share a guestion on Twitter and Facebook and seems that there's a possibility to earn announcer, booster and publicist badges for ...
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Why do repcap badges exist on Meta? How did people get them?
So, I was looking at my (rather depressing) meta profile badge to-do list when I noticed something interesting:
The repcap badges are present! Upon digging a bit further into this, I noticed that ...
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How can I see per-badge completion-status?
Is there some way I can see what my per-badge completion status is? For example, to view the completion status for the Electorate or Copy-Editor badge I can go to the review page and take a look at ...
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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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Why haven't I received my Electorate badge yet?
The Electorate badge is given when a user votes 600 times and 25% of the votes are on questions if I understand correctly.
I reached that couple of months back and while looking at my profile now, I ...
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What is meant by the phrase "first tag wiki edit"?
I find this badge tip extremely confusing: tag editor. What is meant by the text provided?
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How exactly is the electorate badge earned?
I'm looking for a clearer explanation of the Electorate badge as the explanation given doesn't seem clear:
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
This seems ...
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What does the "First rollback" description mean for the badge Cleanup
I do not understand what the description "First Rollback" means for the badge Cleanup. What is a rollback? Can someone please explain to me what this is?
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Why is my Badge Count Different
Early July 19th I had 24 bronze badges
and now they are 23 what gives?
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How do I earn the student badge?
I do not understand this explanation of how to get to be a student.
First question with a score of 1 or more
Is there an online manual with this info?
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What does "non-community wiki" mean?
I am a bit confused about the Tag badges.
For ex, a Bronze tag badge for 10.04 says
Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 non-community wiki answers in the 10.04 tag
I know what ...
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What do you consider a well received question?
How many positive arrows does a question need to be considered a well received question?
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Why are there "Tag Badges"?
Sometimes when I come to a user profile page, I will see some "Tag Badges" like the 10.10 badge, the unity badge, and the installation badge. Not only these.
But I can't find "Tag Badges" on this ...
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Reputation points and badges not incremented
My reputation points and badges suddenly stopped increasing on Ask Ubuntu...
I have done some reviews today and I was also supposed to be awarded a gold badge for editing 500 posts. This started ...
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Announcer badge not received
I shared a questions with high views more than once but never received the Announcer badge.
I even shared the same question someone had his badge by sharing it and still didn't receive mine!
What ...
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Missing badges in flair
I placed flair on my blog. It updates my reputation (Edit: Now that, it doesn't update anything) but my badges is one less than the actual. I have 3 badges but it displays 2; it doesn't take the ...
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Track pundit progress
Is there a way to figure out how close I am to getting the Pundit badge? Even a way to sort my comments by score would be plenty, but I don't find any way whatsoever to do it, and I don't feel like ...
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Earned Announcer badge - Dont understand how
I recently received a notification that I had earned an Announcer badge
But why? I understand the badge I earned on April 25 but I don't remember answering the question Webcam doesn't work in browser…...
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Can I get a badge more than once?
If I get a badge once, can I get another if I do the same thing again?
Say for example the "Stellar Question" badge:
If I have 2 questions favorited by 100 or more users, do I get the badge twice?
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The annual Stack Overflow survey
I am trying to earn badges. How do I complete the stack Overflow survey?
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What is Tenacious?
I do not understand this badge.
It says: zero accepted answers: for whom ? for me? I found one user having this badge without posting any question. How could be? This is the user's link.
Can you ...
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Curious badge strangely not awarded yet (in meta)
Why is the curious badge still there? It has been for days, and it says 5/5.
Update: it seems I do have 5 upvoted questions in meta
PS: I'm not desperate for badges (at least not in meta). But this ...
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What is Cleanup badge [duplicate]
I do not understand what the Cleanup Badge First rollback is?
I have checked recent achievement under badges.
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Different badges in main user and meta, Reputations only for main user
There is independence between awarded badges on askubuntu main user and meta user. But reputations is same for main user and meta user.
However, voting and accepting questions and answers on meta ...
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No Vox Populi Badge awarded [duplicate]
I have expended my 40 votes today and I am unable to vote on anything else for today. But still I am not awarded the Vox Populi badge. Can someone please check?
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Can't get my Analytical badge
I have just visited every page in the FAQ, hoping to get my 1st badge. But it didn't reward me one. Can someone tell me how to get the badge?
