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I noticed that on my account, on Math, Music and other Stack Exchange communities, the number of badges and my reputation were different. I tried searching this up on Meta but could not find anything related to this.

Is it just a bug on my side or is it just a feature?

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  • meta.stackexchange.com/questions/67397/… Commented Sep 12 at 7:26
  • I also checked that post, but it didn't say about the different communities. Commented Sep 12 at 7:30
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    I would think the "each site", "on a site", "on the site" etc, already implies that each badge is for the site where you got them. After all, scrolling through the intro for SO for example, doesn't mean you've scrolled through the SU intro. Commented Sep 12 at 7:36
  • Also, the feature-request Can we have cross-site badges? there are currently no cross-site badges. Commented Sep 12 at 7:37
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    It's not a bad question, it's a legitimate question for a beginner to ask. Unless it's a duplicate. Commented Sep 12 at 11:15
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    I see this less as something that might become its own faq, and more as something that might be explicitly added to the existing badge FAQ Commented Sep 14 at 20:20

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Is it just a bug on my side or is it a feature?

It is a feature, your reputation points are also different. On every site you have different account. You can even rename them (once every 30 days) or change the profile picture per site.

Why?

The idea is that every site specialises in a different field of expertise. If someone is really good at programming on Stack Overflow that does not qualify him on spanish.stackexchange.com etc. Reputation and badges to some extend imply knowledge and users tend to trust answer from high reputation users more. Therefore one has to earn it on every site separately. But when one account reached a certain score all others get a +100 bonus once.

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