Questions tagged [badge-description]
A badge description is the description of a badge, explaining why it is awarded.
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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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Fix Guru badge description [duplicate]
Currently Guru badge description looks as: Accepted answer and score of 40 or more. This badge can be awarded multiple times. According to the answer that excludes self-accepted answers. Hence I ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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What is the Refiner badge really for?
The blurb for Refiner says, Edited and answered 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0) which dates back to here. Breaking this down, we have "edited and answered 50 questions"...
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15 votes
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Make UTC link in badge description translatable
Recently I changed translations in descriptions for Fanatic and Enthusiast badges on Stack Overflow in Russian according to my global wide feature request: Now I noticed that UTC link in the ...
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Fix description for Enthusiast and Fanatic badges
Each badge description with a single sentence doesn't contain a dot. Except for Enthusiast and Fanatic badges: I think those descriptions for Enthusiast and Fanatic badges should be changed from ...
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8 votes
1 answer
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Clarify the meaning of the Generalist badge
So here's the description of Generalist: Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags Has anyone ever realized just how ambiguous that is? Here are the ways it could be ...
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-8 votes
1 answer
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Text for Electorate gold badge is confusing & ambiguous [duplicate]
For observers, this particular badge creates confusion. Currently Electorate badge text shows like this: Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions. Does it mean: Vote ...
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5 votes
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The term "good question" in some badges' description is unclear [duplicate]
The badges, curious, inquisitive and socratic are described as: Ask a good question on N separate days, and maintain a positive question record However the term good question is not explained. From ...
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13 votes
1 answer
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Description for Explainer, Refiner, Illuminator is unclear
The text on the badge description page reads as follows: Edited X questions within 12 hours of posting a positive-scoring answer. I was not the only one who thought this meant you edited any ...
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81 votes
4 answers
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Misleading description of new Curious badge
The description of the new Curious badge currently reads: Asked a good question on 5 separate days, and maintains a positive question record. The term "good question" seems to be defined by the ...
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14 votes
1 answer
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Is awarding the Tumbleweed badge working correctly?
The Tumbleweed badge is awarded for questions with no votes, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week. For a week refers to the first week of existence as per this answer. This question was ...
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5 votes
1 answer
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Could "(the daily maximum)" be removed from the Mortarboard description?
On the badges page, the Mortarboard badge is described as: Earned at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day Is this not misleading in its wording? It implies that you must hit the ...
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25 votes
0 answers
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Change the description of the revival badge to match the algorithm used to award it
The current description for the revival badge is: Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more However, as per the discussion on Revival Badge awarded incorrectly when other ...
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15 votes
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Guru badge description is misleading and should be changed
Is it just me or is the Guru badge description a bit misleading? Accepted answer and score of 40 or more. This badge can be awarded multiple times. At first read it seemed that a person need to ...
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16 votes
1 answer
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Sheriff badge description has two periods
See https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/3109/sheriff The description ends with two periods. On the badges page, the Sheriff badge is the only badge having a period at the end of its description.
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