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Reward link sharing badges for post links in chat? [duplicate]
Current state
When the link-sharing form of Q&A (or other post) links are oneboxed in chat, the onebox "resolves" the sharing link to a non-sharing link. This is documented in the badge ...
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Legendary Badge has become a site badge rather than a user badge
Let's face it, some Stack Exchange sites are bigger than others by a large margin. As a result, if you go to the smaller sites, even ones that have been around over a decade, on their badges page you ...
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Next level of Necromancer? [duplicate]
I recently got the Necromancer badge! Fear me!
But I always wanted to become a lich! I would like "Lich" to be next badge level beyond "Necromancer". Necromancers naturally ...
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Proposal to award the gold Copy Editor badge multiple times [duplicate]
Nearly four years ago during major updates to how the review queues worked and following discussion on the matter, we decided to award the gold Steward badge multiple times for any given review queue ...
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Is there a table that holds the badge name, its description, and retired status?
SO has badges that are awarded to users for completing some tasks. I was playing around with SO Data Explorer and noticed there is no table for badge definition itself.
So for example if I want to ...
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How is it determined whether or not to display the year an achievement was earned? It seems inconsistent
What I would expect is that any date within the current calendar year would display with day/month only, while all dates from previous years would have the full day/month/year format.
This is not ...
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Can I voluntarily cast a single close vote despite having a gold badge? [duplicate]
Voting to close as duplicate can be done by gold-badge owners without requiring votes from other people ("dupehammer"). This is often sensible and useful. However, is it possible to ...
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What is the best (fast but contributive) way to get Strunk & White badge?
As far as know, less than 200 people have a Strunk & White badge here on Meta.
Why there's so few people eligible for this?
Feature-request, is editing 80 posts too hard? Can we reduce this to ...
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Is the analytical Badge unretired? Then how is it received at present?
There is
Visited every section of the FAQ (retired)
at these questions Analytical Badge still showing "FAQ" and What is the meaning of a retired badge?
But there is
Visited every section ...
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Are there any questions for which multiple answers have received enlightened badges?
Since the Enlightened badge is awarded to the first undeleted answer that is accepted and has a vote score of 10 or higher, it should be possible for a question to result in multiple Enlightened ...
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Nice Answer and Enlightened badges not awarded
Yesterday, this answer of mine got its tenth upvote and it has no downvotes. Furthermore, it is the only answer to its question, and it got accepted. Therefore, I should have earned both a Nice Answer ...
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Adjusting the requirements for the Generalist badge so that more sites are eligible for it
"Generalist" is a badge awarded to community members for broad knowledge of a site's most commonly-asked-about subjects. It's earned by providing answers that accumulate 15 total score per ...
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The return of the tag-badges exploit
The tag-badges exploit was an old exploit in Stack Exchange: at the time, a total of 1000 votes across all your answers on a tag would give you a gold tag badge for that tag. This lead to an edge case ...
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Is 7 Socratic badges the current per-site record?
I'm a big fan of the Socratic badge because in my experience, asking 100 upvoted questions on separate days is hard: it requires long-term and consistent dedication, and you learn a substantial amount ...
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Can the 'receive your first Gold Badge' description be changed?
Every time I notice the following suggestion, I get slightly amused:
You don't have a gold badge yet. Write an answer that scores 100 or more to earn your first.
I think this is not helpful advice at ...
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