Questions tagged [badges]
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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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The annual Stack Overflow survey
I am trying to earn badges. How do I complete the stack Overflow survey?
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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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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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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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Badges getting cut in half
Seems like the badges are getting cut in half. Attaching the screenshot below
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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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Yearling badge awarded multiple times today
I'm getting some odd behavior on the site today, it's awarded me the yearling badge 5 times over and keeps doing so every hour or so, perhaps in response to some actions I'm taking, but I can't tell ...
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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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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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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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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 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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Why have I just received another two Marshal badges?
Why have I just now received another two Marshal badges? I got my first a few months ago. Surely you should only ever get it the once.
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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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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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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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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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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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Receiving a badge does not correspond to it's description
Today I answered a question for the first time (which made me very happy)
and received some badges.
One of them looks strange.
Teacher badge description says: "Answer a question with score of 1 or ...
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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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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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My badge count is different in different places, and I don't like it
This is related (but not a duplicate as this is a feature request).
So here is my profile page:
The first red box totals 58.
The second red box says 41.
If I count the number of badges I get 58. ...
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I didn't receive the notification that I'd gained a badge
So in my notification list, I have "You have earned the Curious badge'. But I received the Benefactor badge yesterday and I didn't get a notification for it. Why is this? Is it not meant to or is it a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ill gotten Mortarboards?
I got curious about the Mortarboard badge (200+ rep in one day) today and took a peek at several awardees' profiles to see what I could learn from their high score answers. I discovered that for a few ...
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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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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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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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Is it possible to Ask Ubuntu identify my GMT Time Zone?
I was interested in the Fanatic Badge as I access Ask Ubuntu in a daily basis, so I started accessing it every single day. Although I live in Brazil, and my GMT is -3:00, and some days I can only ...
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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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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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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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Countdown for badges
Is there any possibility to see the progress of badge achievement?
I mean, let's say that it is needed X action to get a badge, and I fulfilled (X - Y), so, I would like to see something like this ...
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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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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?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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