Badge questions

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Badge questions

User Canapin is inquiring about two issues related to badges. They received a notification for the “Senior Tester” badge, despite already having it since 2019. They also question why they have the badge with only 19 topics liked, when the requirement should be higher.

Sam responds that the “Senior Tester” badge does account for deleted topics, which explains why Canapin has it with fewer likes. As for the notification issue, sam attributes it to the badge grant date being based on the minimum post date, which can be complex to accurately calculate.

Hi,

I got these notifications a few days ago:

So I went to my badges page, and here’s what I see:

Only 19 badges, but that nonetheless triggered “Senior Tester”.

However, the latter can’t be earned multiple times, and has been granted to me in 2019.

  1. Why do I have Senior Tester if I only have 19 topics liked? Could it be because some topics were deleted/moved after being liked by a staff member?

  2. Why am I notified that I got “Senior Tester” a few days ago if I already had the badge 3 years ago?

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The badge allows for deleted topics, which I think is a bit fairer.

This is tricky, the grant date is the MIN post date, to get an accurate date we would need some huge amounts of complexity. (windowing functions or some other fancy stuff, I can fix it, but it would take me an hour or 2, not sure it is worth it)

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