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gilkalai comments on "A sad day ..." (19116)

gilkalai — Tue, 22 May 2012 06:00:07 -0700

yea I remember, maybe I was behind that first silver one too. Andrew, arn't you celebrating the Abel prize celebration in Oslo right now?

Andrew Stacey comments on "A sad day ..." (19114)

Andrew Stacey — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:25:15 -0700

Some context

gilkalai comments on "A sad day ..." (19113)

gilkalai — Tue, 22 May 2012 02:04:51 -0700

So sorry Andrew, I thought 6 people will get golden badges at once (so 5 at least will be happy) but only you got the badge at the end. Personally, I like the badges. It gives MO users high dimensional rewards and allow different people to have different aims. Also being advanced in badges does not give you powers (e.g., to close and to delete) and as we all know, power corrupts.

Angelo comments on "A sad day ..." (19112)

Angelo — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:18:40 -0700

I got both the fanatic and the populist badge :-(

I'll keep a stiff upper lip, and soldier on (don't you love these English idioms?).

Gjergji comments on "A sad day ..." (19111)

Gjergji — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:05:30 -0700

Good thing they don't award the fanatic badge multiple times...

Bill Johnson comments on "A sad day ..." (19110)

Bill Johnson — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:54:48 -0700

You are describing the fanatic badge, George; the one I termed the worst possible gold badge.

If you find a good therapist please pass his or her name along.

Asaf Karagila comments on "A sad day ..." (19107)

Asaf Karagila — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:32:58 -0700

Is someone going to start a badge-to-scotch barter business? I am willing to trade my badges...

George Lowther comments on "A sad day ..." (19106)

George Lowther — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:37:06 -0700

Andrew: It could be worse. I only have one gold badge -- the populist, or, "please, go get a life and do something other than use mathoverflow all the time" badge. I just checked, and it is for logging in every day for 100 consecutive days, which I was awarded approximately 100 days after mathoverflow started. In my defence, I just kept my iphone logged in to mathoverflow while doing other stuff, but I'd still gladly swap it for something (anything) else.

Kevin Buzzard comments on "A sad day ..." (19105)

Kevin Buzzard — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:56:14 -0700

Andrew I feel your pain -- funnily enough I got my first gold badge about a week ago. I couldn't be bothered to work out what for!

Bill Johnson comments on "A sad day ..." (19104)

Bill Johnson — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:09:20 -0700

Omigod! I checked my account and discovered that I have the worst possible gold badge.

Is there an aqua regia badge?

Gerry Myerson comments on "A sad day ..." (19103)

Gerry Myerson — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:46:59 -0700

The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences notes three sequences beginning 1, 36, 100, of which perhaps the most interesting is http://oeis.org/A077448, Numbers $n$ such that $\sum_{d\mid n} \mu(d)\mu^2(n/d) = 1$.

WillieWong comments on "A sad day ..." (19100)

WillieWong — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:07:59 -0700

My understanding is that badge recalculation is normally only done when said badge is awarded. So that if Andrew deletes his answer, and somehow wins himself yet another populist badge, then normalcy would be automatically returned (showing 1 populist badge total) unless he tries to restart the process again.

Andrew Stacey comments on "A sad day ..." (19099)

Andrew Stacey — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:49:20 -0700

Thanks for the detective work!

(I wouldn't delete an answer just to get rid of a badge, even on a "soft" question.)

Scott Carnahan comments on "A sad day ..." (19098)

Scott Carnahan — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:30:48 -0700

Andrew: Gil Kalai recently accepted an answer to question 54232, "A book you would like to write". At the time of this writing, the accepted answer has 11 votes, and yours has 60.

As far as I understand, if you delete the answer, you will not lose the badge, unless Anton asks the people at stackexchange to remove it. I seem to recall a meta thread where Anton mentioned that this step was needed for him to lose the extra badges that arose from the moderator elections.

Andrew Stacey comments on "A sad day ..." (19097)

Andrew Stacey — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:26:15 -0700

I logged in to MO this morning and was shocked to discover that I finally had been awarded a gold badge: the populist badge. Unfortunately, I can't figure out what answer it was awarded for so I don't know what to delete to get rid of it. It looks like I'm stuck with it.

In compensation, it appears that my badge numbers make a nice pattern: 1,36,100 so it's not all bad news.