Questions tagged [badges]
Badges are awarded to encourage and incentivize positive community actions within the site.
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Viewing reputation and badges is now opt-in and compatible with the new front page
This announcement is a little late (see the discussion here), but in response to discussions over many years, we (the moderators and board) have implemented a change to the site where by default, ...
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Reputation and badges are no longer visible next to the users' names
Right now it seems that a bug is affecting MO: reputation and badges are no longer displayed next to the users' names.
This happens both on the front page:
as well as on pages of individual questions:...
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Does Mathoverflow really want the 'Publicist' badge?
I enjoy the rewards system on the Stack exchange network. I learned some time ago that you can easily earn gold badges on all sites by picking the most interesting questions and using the "Share" ...
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Filtering out the Autobiographer badge from "Recent Badges"
As discussed in this recent post, there is currently an influx of a ridiculous number of profile spammers showing up with the Autobiographer badge in the "recent badges" box on the MO ...
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Tumbleweed Badge: Proper Response
Being a European, I doubtless do not fully understand the associations of the Tumbleweed badge that I have just received. Is there a MO consensus about the appropriate reaction?
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What is a 'question record', in particular a positive one?
The description of the `curious' badge reads: "Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record". What does the last part mean?
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How could I compute my "candidate score"?
I have noticed that, during elections for moderators, the candidates are awarded a "candidate score", computed from their activity on MO.
Is its algorithm public, so that I be able to ...
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Are all terms clearly defined in Help fragments? If not, who can contribute?
I could be hypocritical and not specify the specific case that induced this question. But actually I am after a golden badge :D
Its description says this:
Ask a well-received question on 100 ...