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quid comments on "Badges appear broken" (22130)

quid — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:53:33 -0700

@deane.yang: I know that there is sometimes some delay (in particular for certain badges; nice answer always arrives before enlightened for instance even if the accept was before +10), but for this badge (Student) I do not think it is that long usually.

How important it is: in some sense to me personally (and to many people, or so I assume) not very much or at all (which is also why I said the wisest might be to wait) but then it seems like an anomaly in the working of the site, so that I thought I signal it when I noticed it.

Added May 24th: badges seem working again

quid comments on "Badges appear broken" (22129)

quid — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:46:27 -0700

@Asaf Karagila: Yes, as I said it is since (only) about a day. For example Ben does not yet have a Student badge, while having asked a question that received an up-voye yesterday [very close to 24h] (at +6 now, so that presumably the first up-vote happened relatively close to time of asking); similarly but more recent Julian Chaidez , Marcelo Silva and Minirogue . By contrast the last Student badge seems to be also awarded one day ago (I cannot see a preciser time there but so it is 24h - 48h hours ago).

So the point in time this started seems narrowed down to 24h (minus epsilon) to 48h ago.

deane.yang comments on "Badges appear broken" (22128)

deane.yang — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:45:34 -0700

Many of my badges arrive much later than when I first "earned" them. This is noticeable, since I often have trouble seeing why a badge suddenly appears. But how important is this anyway?

Asaf Karagila comments on "Badges appear broken" (22127)

Asaf Karagila — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:19:34 -0700

I got two badges recently (two days ago), and I got them both rather shortly after receiving the final votes.

quid comments on "Badges appear broken" (22126)

quid — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:27:24 -0700

I believe this problem is back (at least the symptoms appear to be the same). [I did not check in very much detail but some people do not have some badges they should have, with a delay significantly longer than the standard delay.]

However, it seems not since that long (a day or so).

It is now unclear to me from this thread whether last time the problem resolved itself (if so the wisest seems just to wait a bit) or whether somebody had to do something to resolve it (if so thanks in advance for doing this something again).

karlschwede comments on "Badges appear broken" (20194)

karlschwede — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:16:06 -0700

I also got some new badges.

Andreas Blass comments on "Badges appear broken" (20192)

Andreas Blass — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 19:51:55 -0700

I also got some new badges, two of which don't seem to be for anything that just happened.

Todd Trimble comments on "Badges appear broken" (20189)

Todd Trimble — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:01:46 -0700

I'm getting some badges coming in now, for what exactly I don't know, so it may be that the badge-award system is now fixed.

Asaf Karagila comments on "Badges appear broken" (20166)

Asaf Karagila — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 03:17:56 -0700

CW does not affect votes related badges (Nice Question/Answer and so on).

I can also confirm there is a problem, Sean Cox answered my recent question should have gotten several badges (his user is six days old) and he has received none.

Andreas Blass comments on "Badges appear broken" (20165)

Andreas Blass — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:20:57 -0700

Will, I don't think CW is the reason. I have a "great answer" badge, and my only answer with 100 upvotes was on a CW question.

Will Jagy comments on "Badges appear broken" (20162)

Will Jagy — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:22:00 -0700

quid, Scott Morrison accidentally made everything CW at a time when Minhyong's answer was below 100 votes. Evidently Scott meant to make just the question CW and clicked on the wrong thing. It is possible that CW status prevents badges. Just a thought.

karlschwede comments on "Badges appear broken" (20161)

karlschwede — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:28:40 -0700

Ryan, that's certainly possible.

joro comments on "Badges appear broken" (20159)

joro — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:21:55 -0700

Audited my badges and suppose I am missing a badge for an answer with 10+ votes.

Ryan Budney comments on "Badges appear broken" (20158)

Ryan Budney — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:31:37 -0700

Perhaps this is part of the transition to SE2?

quid comments on "Badges appear broken" (20157)

quid — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:24:24 -0700

I agree there seems to be a problem. Some badges are (always) given with some noticeable delay only, but this seems much too long. Further example: Minhyong Kim does not yet have a great answer badge while the answer being well above 100.

karlschwede comments on "Badges appear broken" (20156)

karlschwede — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:45:35 -0700

Dear bsteinberg, "Nice Question" is at least 10 upvotes. You can see the list of all "Student" badges awarded here.

http://mathoverflow.net/badges/2/student

Notice that none of them are from people joining less than 7 days ago.

bsteinberg comments on "Badges appear broken" (20154)

bsteinberg — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:49:55 -0700

I think Student means 10 upvotes

karlschwede comments on "Badges appear broken" (20153)

karlschwede — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:09:59 -0700

Hi, it seems to me that currently no one is being awarded new badges. This appears to have been going on for about a week. I've noticed it myself, but I've also observed it on others.

For example, I can find many examples of users who have 10 points, because they recently asked a question which has 1 upvote, but do NOT have the badge "Student". For example, see these questions:

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106947/reflexive-besov-spaces

or

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106922/flatness-of-contravariant-connections

or

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106796/sufficient-and-concrete-condition-for-a-function-to-satisfy-some-measure-theore

Perhaps this is also something that I just don't understand about how these are being awarded.