Questions relating to the suggestion or request for one or more new badges
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New badges based on the number of badges earned
There are various ways and conditions to earn badges, but I have a few more ideas for new badges:
For every 100 bronze badges, earn 1 extra silver badge.
For every 100 silver badges, earn 1 extra ...
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“Interesting question” badge [duplicate]
Shouldn't there be an badge for questions marked favorite by 10 users?
By analogy with question score:
Question score of 10 or more
Question score of 25 or more
Question Question score of 100 ...
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Badge for successful reopening of closed questions
There can be a badge for user who vote for reopening of questions quite often and the question actually gets reopened. This can be a good idea as questions which were closed due to bad title or other ...
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Commendation system for new users
TL; DR
Create a new badge, or a few new badges, which could be awarded via voting by high rep (3k+) users to recognize a particularly good first question.
Consider our "new" on hold system. High ...
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Informed badge for Meta
In Stack Overflow Informed badge is awarded for reading the entire about page.
Why the informed badge is not seen in Meta Stack Overflow?
We are having about page here too.
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New Badge Proposal: “Dignified” (Gold)
I would like to propose a badge that rewards folk who have written question comments that have more upticks than answers have upvotes; e.g. see @HamZa in
java split regex - any combination of ...
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Badge for answering your own question [duplicate]
Was thinking today, a good "answer badge" would be some number of answering your own questions. Not sure what type of standards need to be set, maybe if there are no other answers, or if your answer ...
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Badge for editing a closed question and getting it re-opened [duplicate]
I recently had a question that promptly got closed. After a meta discussion, a user made a very good edit, after which the question was re-opened and now (at the time this post was made) has 11 ...
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Anti-Badges for trolling/ridiculous behavior
I think we should have anti-badges.
They could be implemented as a sort-of punishment for doing stupid things such as;
Get -10 score and no upvotes on any post on the meta site for this site. -- ...
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How do we add additional gamification to answering questions?
What is the Work Queue?
This is a proposal to use the Badges! system to help provide answers to questions by adding a new review-style queue for working Questions and using the power of the ...
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Badges for upvoted answers, but not accepted
We have Tenacious and Unsung Hero badges for zero score accepted answers. Can we have something similar for answers with up-votes, but not accepted, especially when there are no other up-voted answers ...
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Provide a bronze badge for deleting one's own old comment
We have an enormous number of bronze badges on StackOverflow to help new users learn the basic functionality of the site. I propose a bronze badge for deleting a dated comment one has left:
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Badge suggestion: Lonely traveler (10 questions with upvotes, no answers and more than 10% of total)
I have about 4-5 questions like that. Usually, they are complex questions in areas where quite a small percentage of people have expertise.
There were several cases when I was wondering whether it ...
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Add late vote badge
On stackoverflow, I think there should be a badge for voting late on questions and answers, since that would encourage more voting. One area this would be useful in is people searching for programming ...
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Diversity Bronze Badge Idea
I was thinking maybe it would be good to offer a badge for those that have a minimum score of 1 across 50 tags. Perhaps this would help get user's to read/answer questions on other tags more often, ...
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How do badge proposals work?
Who approves or creates new Stack Exchange badges and how do badge proposals work?
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Reciprocal badges for high rep users asking and novice users answering
It's a good idea to encourage more novice users to jump right in there and see where they can contribute. It can be intimidating answering a question from a 10k+ rep user, but I think higher rep ...
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New Gold Badge “Activist”
Similar to the silver badge "Yearling"(Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation); this gold badge is earned if "Active for one year, earning at least 2000 reputation".
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Badge proposal: “famous answer”
I'm making this proposal since I have this answer (accepted) on a question that has almost 7K views and counting: Javadoc @see or {@link}?
But I only have 16 upvotes. Currently that's 1 upvote per ...
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Badge suggestion: upvotes for valuable questions regarding a topic
While topic badges are awarded for up-voted answers, and there are badges awarded for single questions (nice question etc), there are no badges for upvoted questions of a specific topic. I asked ...
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Encourage users to edit first posts, with a badge
We should be encouraging the First Posts reviewers to improve the posts they are reviewing. After all, that's the point of review. There are currently several options available to First Posts ...
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Review audit badges
To promote the better reviews there should be some badges for success audit reviews.
Currently if many audit fails user is blocked to review for two days, but some positive for successful audits ...
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Add a Gold Badge for Chat, complete the series
For some reason or another chatting is encouraged by two badges:
bronze talkative
and
silver outspoken
But no gold one to complete the series, why is that?
Chat rooms are a great place to ...
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Should we have a badge / recognition of well-cited answers? Questions?
I'm aiming for a mechanism that can be used to highlight high-quality
answers that have garnered few votes. I think this would provide a
valuable UX element for users to become more engaged, ...
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Badge to encourage highly upvoted answers that are complete without needing edits
We all know of the Fastest Gun in the West problem. People answer fast, often with very little content to get early upvotes.
Why not introduce a badge that encourages complete answers?
We could ...
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Badge Request for fixing dead-links: Pipefitter?
There are numerous older questions with links that are now 404. It's a significant user-experience issue( and not as simple to fix as typos and style-issues).
Wouldn't it merit a badge if a user ...
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Badge Suggestion: One Hit Wonder
Check out this guy: http://stackoverflow.com/users/504952/carlo-bos
His only activity ever, is answering a single question, which has net him almost 2500 points.
The One Hit Wonder could be, ...
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Silver Badge for multiple bounties
I think we should start a Donor badge for a person who awards bounty on 5 questions of others. Ideas?
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Badge suggestion: badges for total number of favorites across your questions
I would like to propose a badge given to a user, when he/she has gained a cumulative number of favorites on their questions.
I believe there should be several versions of the badge i.e. bronze, ...
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“Punchline” badge for outstanding upvotes/length ratio
Please consider introducing a badge for highly acclaimed yet terse answers. The ones with links in them should not, obviously, count.
You can introduce a hard metric - e. g. >=10 upvotes for an ...
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Hipster Badge Suggestion
I used x before it was popular.
Tag badges are created by the system when the first user reaches the bronze level for that particular tag. Why not give a "hipster" badge to the person that caused ...
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New badge proposal: Accepted answer with negative votes
I've seen some accepted answers on Stack Overflow with negative votes, and the same happened to me yesterday: someone just downvoted my answer, and the OP accepted it without upvoting it.
Wouldn't be ...
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Rewarding a badge for creating a tag
I think there could be a badge for creating a new tag. Since creating a tag would require 1.5k reputation, i think it might make sense to have at least a bronze tag for this. This would encourage ...
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Helping to delete question where own answer gained >= X votes
This is related to my earlier post here and inspired by this answer.
Could there be a badge for helping to delete a question wherein your own (non-wiki) answer has gained a certain amount (tbd) of ...
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What problems must be solved to evolve the “Cake is Not a Lie” hat into a badge? [duplicate]
Some posters don't use good spelling or grammar, or they even fail to mark up their code so that it appears at all in a question. A good edit - one which address grammar, clarity, and fixes markup - ...
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Enable viewing of 'special answers' with negative scores
In real life, humans learn not only from good examples but also from bad examples if it is shown that the example is bad. However, the current way StackExchange works discourages any 'wrong answers'. ...
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Badge Suggestion: “The People's Choice” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
List of all badges with full descriptions
I've noticed a lot of questions get a green tick early on, only to get a "better" answer after the fact, which gains far more ...
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A badge to incentivize helpful flagging
There seems to be an issue with helpful flags. I have read several posts in the past couple weeks regarding why a flag was disputed. The response is always the same: even if a post should be flagged, ...
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Give badges to people for coming back and answering their own question
Someone's asked why you can't earn the self-answer badge more than once the answer being that it's intended to help people learn about the site's functionality. Answering your own question is ...
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Badge for Winterbash participants
Okay, here's another idea for those who like Winterbash.
For those who participated in Winterbash (got a hat) give a one-time badge.
You could give a Silver badge to anyone who participated, or
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Add badge: 'Prize Chaser' to people chase bounties and win them [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bounty Hunter badges
Add a badge for person who solve bounty questions and win them, let say he gain this bronze badge if he solved and won x bounties in x days, this ...
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Badge for no downvotes
I think getting no downvotes for an extended period should be recognised, for example:
no downvotes for 25 consecutive answers: bronze
no downvotes for 80 consecutive answers: silver
no downvotes ...
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Implement a Badge Similar to the Winter Bash “Cake Is Not A Lie” Hat
This hat encourages good behaviour: improving posts. This is exactly what a good badge should do.
Why not make it a permanent bronze badge? There is an existing badge to encourage people to edit at ...
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Badge for having a certain amount of accepted answers [duplicate]
I would like to see a badge for having a certain amount of accepted answers.
-- for example I have 50 answers which are accepted so maybe a badge for this to reward good answerers,
but one that ...
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Encourage people to pay attention while reviewing
Recently I saw a "No action needed" button in the review system, which I think is really good for stopping bad/fake upvotes from the people who are striving just for badges. Still they can easily ...
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Badge suggestion: Attentive/Thorough
There seems to be a consensus that robo-upvoters are running rampant on Stack Overflow because of the Late Answer and First Post review queues.
You've all seen it, spam that has been upvoted, ...
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Badge for reaching daily cap on single answer / question
A cool and rare badge would be to get a badge for reaching the daily cap limit solely on a single answer and another badge for reaching your daily cap limit on a single question.
You can still gain ...
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How about a new badge for knowledge on a particular tag [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
More tag badges
What are tag badges? How do they work?
TURNS OUT THIS ALREADY EXISTS. NEVERMIND
So we have all sorts of tags representing all sorts of topics. ...
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Why am I not getting the Unsung Hero Badge?
So, I was waiting desperately that I would get one more answer accepted with and I would get this Badge, but it happened differently.
I was stuck on perfect count of 40 accepted answers and 10 ...
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Is there any badge for asking hot questions so many times?
Is there any badge awarded to people whose questions appear many times on the list of Stack Exchange's hot questions (the upper left menu bar of the site). If there is no such badge, I would like to ...
