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At the moment there's Quorum and Convention which encourage participation on meta and seem to be related (bronze / silver style.) However, there's no gold badge in this family - would this be a good idea to encourage more long term participation in meta?

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It should be a badge of sadness. Because if you're on Meta that much, you really need better things to do. Yes, I realize this applies to me. – mmyers Feb 3 '11 at 14:11
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-1 meta is murder – systempuntoout Feb 3 '11 at 14:28
    
On high Meta rep (@mmyers) – Pops Feb 3 '11 at 15:14
    
@Pop Oh, hey, I guess we both qualify to actually answer that question, now, don't we? – Grace Note Feb 3 '11 at 22:00
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I think encouraging more meta participation is a good thing. Adding a gold badge would complete the family of badges. Something like 100 posts with a score of 2 might fit it nicely. Not sure about a name.

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I was thinking either that or a certain reputation score (say 2k)? – berry120 Feb 3 '11 at 13:37
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the name could be Sigh – Nick Dandoulakis Feb 3 '11 at 14:51
    
IS this still going to be implemented? If only for the sake of completeness, I like it. I will probably never get it myself seeing as I had to struggle to get convention, but in the long run it gives me a reason to be more on meta. Right now, I feel like I don't really have a reason. There are a lot more people helping out than asking questions. – MDeSchaepmeester May 2 '13 at 15:23

However, there's no gold badge in this family - would this be a good idea to encourage more long term participation in meta?

In my opinion, no. I think a gold badge would cause badge hunters to swamp Meta with content that they wouldn't be contributing if there weren't a prize to collect.

The only long-term Meta activity that I find generally support-worthy for every user is voting. An additional Electorate-like badge for Meta voting I would welcome.

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@Pekka, I agree about the voting. But if badge hunters with junk content were an issue for Meta, then why are the silver and bronze setup as needing 1 or 10 posts, instead of voting or some other requirement. – jzd Feb 3 '11 at 13:42
    
Ooooh, I like this idea! – The Unhandled Exception Feb 3 '11 at 15:45
    
Badge hunters haven't been a problem so far(AFAIK) and I think the meta-community can easily handle some bad content(if it's good content what's the problem?), However, I am very much for "an additional Electorate-like badge" so +1. – John Feb 4 '11 at 0:42
    
Re the first paragraph, I disagree. We did see a single case of a user and his sockpuppets successfully game Convention, but if the limit is really high, like 100, then it's going to be pretty obvious what's going on. There's just no way anyone can post that much quality content in a short period of time with none of us noticing. – Jon Seigel Feb 7 '11 at 18:04
    
@Jon it's not the egregious gaming cases I mean. I mean content that is fine and well-intentioned but... not only written for the sake of making a suggestion to improve the site. If somebody has no natural inclination to contributing on Meta, they shouldn't be encouraged to do so just to get the badge. – Pëkka Feb 7 '11 at 18:09
    
Well, I see your point, and I agree, but it's the same case with all the other badges, too. We want to promote editing, so we have Strunk & White and Copy Editor, for example. – Jon Seigel Feb 7 '11 at 18:15
    
I wanted to vote twice once for each para of you answer! After a little more than a year since you answered, the quality of questions on meta has gotten pretty bad. – Ozair Kafray Jul 6 '12 at 11:32

Quorum -> Convention -> Parliament

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Quorum -> Convention -> Covenant – Remou Feb 3 '11 at 14:12
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Quorum --> Convention --> Embarassment (I would have this badge nine times, by the way) – Pops Feb 3 '11 at 15:12

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