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Review Queue badge when there's something new to review

In the main nav, the Inbox icon tells us with a red badge when a user has responded. The Trophy icon turns green when we have a new badge (or shows a green badge when we've received points.) Was the ...
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Can we change the criteria for getting tag badges?

Right now, we have the following badges for tags: Gold Badges – Two, and only JohnGB has been awarded them Silver Badges – Four, JohnGB has been awarded all of them and DA01 has been awarded one ...
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Bug rewarding extra Marshal badges

There seems to be a bug rewarding extra Marshal badges. I flagged two things yesterday; both were marked as helpful. Now, my account is showing two new Marshal badges. As cool as it is to get a gold ...
Graham Herrli's user avatar
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What more must I do to be awarded my next Badge?

This is a question that is asked quite frequently, and before the new user profile page was released – you were forced to build your own database query on a specific site. Luckily that’s not needed ...
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Should badge classes be described by shape as well as colour?

I've just been visiting math.stackexchange.com where they use a range of shapes to signify badge class as well as colour. This makes the differences much easier to see and is generally more ...
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Talkative and Outspoken Badges

On our main site, UX.SE, to get the Talkative and Outspoken badges, Badges just points to http://chat.stackexchange.com/. Does that mean you can earn the badges by posting to any chat room on the ...
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Bug: links on badges page in help center

Initially I thought this was just in the Participation badges section, but it looks like everywhere on the Badges page that has a link, the anchor html tag is visible.
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Badges for answering X and asking Y number of questions

There are badges for achieving a certain amount of activity for: voting, visiting, editing, reviewing, and flagging. But there is no activity level badge for answering x number of questions, or for ...
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Badges -- single vs multi-time awards

There are badges like Analytical ("Visited every section of the FAQ") which can be awarded to a person only once. Yet there are those that can be obtained multiple times, like Nice question ("Question ...
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Why has the generalist badge not been awarded yet

The Generalist badge states: Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags However it has not been awarded yet, and there should be a few people who have met this criterion. I ...
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Favorite icon VS Badge icon

I find the icons for badges too similar to the icon for favorite questions. I remember that this confused me when learning to find my way around the page and what the badge are. Here is the favorite ...
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How to be awarded the Cleanup badge?

The Cleanup badge is defined by "first rollback". It's not the first delete of a post or a question, but something else - question is what do you have to rollback to get the badge?
Benny Skogberg's user avatar
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The research assistant badge?

How does the computation of the badge Research Assistant work? Is the count 1:1 on each tag or is the Excerpt section separate giving the total of 2 if you edit both content and excerpt?
Benny Skogberg's user avatar
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Number of badges should be a link

I think that the number of badges in the top-most menu bar should link to https://ux.stackexchange.com/badges I'm sure I'm not the only one who at least once clicked them to get to the aforementioned ...
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Is the Yearling badge one day late

I think the title says it all. My first post is dated 2010-08-10 00:24:47Z. I received the yearling badge at 2011-08-11 00:16:33Z. Shouldn't this have been awarded 2011-08-10?
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What does Beta badge mean?

The badge description says "Actively participated in the private beta", but I suppose there's an exact criterion - what is it? Also - it says "private beta". The current status is "beta", and it ...
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I've got 10 upvotes for an answer, but no badge.

I got 10 up-votes for this answer 11 hours ago, but still no nice answer badge. I know that badge awarding isn't instantaneous, but I think it should have been awarded by now. However, I've just ...
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