9
votes
1answer
366 views

Why is Research Assistant the least earned badge?

The badge Research Assistant has been awarded to 68 individuals which is the minimum of all the badges including the gold badges. Why is it so? Is it hard to earn? As it is much more exclusive than ...
1
vote
1answer
70 views

What is the maximum number of times you can have a badge? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do “badges” work? I'd realized that I've got a double badge. I thought you could have only one of each badge. I'd like to know, what is the maximum ...
-2
votes
1answer
93 views

Make the Epic, Generalist, Reviewer badges Gold badges?

Silly suggestion perhaps, but it seems like the Epic, Generalist, and Reviewer badges are especially hard to attain (228, 288, and 162 respectively). All three have less recipients than Stellar ...
2
votes
1answer
107 views

What is a “Gold” site?

I thought there were 3 states of an SE site: Private Beta, Public Beta, and Full-blown SE site. Then I stumbled across this question and this question, both of which indicate a state between(?) ...
12
votes
2answers
279 views

Is there a “Gold Badge Effect”?

After an initial burst of interest, which took one of my SO Questions to ~80 upvotes, a steady but slow dribble of votes over the last few weeks finally took it to the magic 100 (and a gold badge) ...
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gold+discussion
meta.stackoverflow.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-10
51958
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:IP2LFYVBUVPROKQ2WURLDTAAYBEEA6T7
<urn:uuid:b4d501c3-620f-4bfc-80df-77fb3d8d2fdf>
2014-03-10T08:29:38Z
198.252.206.140
sha1:5IR5FAVXZUK65NPLWYTB24J63XWACPPI
<urn:uuid:aa64a8b9-219d-4575-ad21-59468a81ba8c>
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/gold+discussion
response
<urn:uuid:c43c65b5-c995-4ce8-aa71-30ba7776a9c7>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf