Questions tagged [badges]
For questions about the badge system on the Stack Exchange network. Badges are awarded to encourage and incentivize positive community actions within the site.
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Change the description for the "Mortarboard", "Epic", and "Legendary" badges on per-site metas to reflect what it actually means there
The description for the "Mortarboard" badge reads "Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day." The description for the "Epic" badge reads "...
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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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Using the filters “fromdate” and “todate” on the /badges API endpoint has no effect
It looks like the fromdate and todate filters have no effect on the /badges endpoint:
Example without these filters:
https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/badges#page=1&pagesize=30&order=desc&...
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Gold tag badge didn't allow single-vote duplicate question closure [duplicate]
As a gold badge holder for [the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim] tag on Arqade, I encountered an unexpected issue while reviewing a question in the Close Votes review queue. Despite the gold tag badge ...
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API endpoints return a 40x code with error "no method found with this name" when reading the name of Staging Ground's badges
Goal
Use the SE API in order to get the lists of the badges for every website in the network. The /badges endpoint provide this data.
Expected result
According to the paging documentation, we can ...
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Selecting next badge doesn't work on "Track the next one" dialog on "Congratulations" notice in profile
Selecting next badge doesn't work. Example:
Steps to reproduce:
Go to a site where you haven't earned a given trackable badge and select it as your next badge. For easy testing, use a bronze badge ...
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Badge text rendering in default link navy blue [duplicate]
This is on Board & Card Games which still has the default site setup. Rather than showing the most recent badge Necromancer with a dark background and white text, the default coloring for links ...
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After the visited links color change, I can’t easily see the badges I've earned
After this was announced recently, I can’t even see what badge did I earn on this site actually, see the picture below:
P.S. This only happens in the badge I have visited, other badges look like OK.
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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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Network profile badges section not showing all my badges
Or at least- it's not showing them in order. I don't know. I'm not paging through every page to check. For example, I (somehow) earned 7 Announcer badges on June 5th and none of them show up in my ...
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The alignment of rep and badges is off on the top bar
I'm not sure if this has been raised elsewhere, but on the user awards in the top bar, the alignment of text for the reputation and badges is off, and it's a bit annoying:
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If I include my user ID in a domain redirect URL like arqade.com, will this still count toward the Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges?
Several SE sites have alternate domain names that redirect to their main URLs.
Arqade redirects from arqade.com to gaming.stackexchange.com
Ask Different from askdifferent.com to apple.stackexchange....
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Do moderators have the ability to add/remove badges from user accounts?
Do moderators have the ability to add badges (in the case of bugs, edge cases, etc.) or remove badges (in the case of vote abuse, etc.)?
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Too many full stops…
This has got to be the smallest text correction request ever…
…but as noticed in a question on English Language Learners - Should a full stop punctuation be used in Abbreviations? - there are too many ...
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Empty "Select your next badge" window after validating a badge [duplicate]
SHORT DESCRIPTION
The "Select your next badge" window of Stack Exchange presented after one has just validated a badge is empty.
LONGER DESCRIPTION
After receiving a new badge (in this case, ...
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