E.g I got 5 upvotes on a comment I left on a question that was removed, does this mean I lost the votes?

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Why do you care? It's just a comment. –  BoltClock Aug 14 at 10:36
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Why not? I would like to know to things work on this site. –  Harry Aug 14 at 10:37
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+1 to Harry's comment, thought this was what MSO was for... –  PW Kad Aug 15 at 17:42

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up vote 35 down vote accepted

I assume you are asking if the comment votes still count toward the Pundit badge. You did not lose those comment votes in terms of your badge progress.

In other words:
Comments on deleted posts count toward the Pundit badge.

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Ah, and now he deleted that comment. Helpful, @Oded.. –  Martijn Pieters Aug 14 at 10:44
    
I thought that myself, sure they won't count as the question has been removed. Hence the question. –  Harry Aug 14 at 10:47
    
@MartijnPieters I personally got the badge with 7 qualified comments that I could see so either the system is messed up or deleted posts count. –  Anonymous Aug 14 at 10:47
    
@Anonymous: I guess that since you cannot vote on comments, they reached the threshold before the post was deleted and thus could still count. –  Martijn Pieters Aug 14 at 10:55
    
I guess it makes some sense. It does seem the system may be flawed. –  Harry Aug 14 at 10:57
    
+1, the badge was the first thing I thought of when I saw this post. –  Approaching Darkness Fish Aug 15 at 7:40
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Is it possible to trade badges for bitcoins? –  0xdeadbeef Aug 15 at 8:36

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