'Tester' badge says it's awarded on the first bug reported, not the tenth bug

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The discussion revolves around the “Tester” badge, which is supposed to be awarded after reporting 10 bugs liked by the Discourse team. However, NateDhaliwal received the badge after reporting their first bug, not their tenth. sam suggests that this issue might be due to the badge being misconfigured and backfilled. Moin points out that the Tester and Senior Tester badges have always used the date of the first report, which is why they received both badges on the same day. tobiaseigen thinks that this issue is not significant and might cause more problems if changed, citing a previous discussion from 2023. The badge’s behavior is seen as a quirk that most people will not notice or care about.

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Ironically, this is the second Contribute > Bug topic I’m making relating to the Bug Reporting badges.

I have just received the Tester badge. My notifications tab says so:

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However, my badge page of Tester shows the following:

The image shows a Discord badge titled "Tester" awarded to a user for reporting ten bugs liked by the Discourse team, with 124 others having received the badge. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows a Discord badge titled "Tester" awarded to a user for reporting ten bugs liked by the Discourse team, with 124 others having received the badge. (Captioned by AI)1080×2408 144 KB

This corresponds with my first bug reported, not my tenth:

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This image shows screenshots of user comments on a Discord server post, all made by the same user identified as "NateDhaliwal," with each comment receiving many reactions. (Captioned by AI)1080×2408 220 KB

I believe this is not the expected behaviour?

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Well! The Related topics feature found this topic:

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Moving this to Contribute > Site feedback , this is a custom badge that was misconfigured and now is backfilled.

This is a badge the team have been fiddling with lately, so its likely the edge case popped up due to that.

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Why do you think it’s because of the backfill?

The other report is from 2023 so well before the recent backfill. As far as I remember, the tester and senior tester badges have always used the date of the first report rather than the most recent one (10th or 25th).
That’s why it looks like I got both badges on the same day.

The image showcases a badge labeled "Tester," which was granted on July 1, 2021, by Moin to a user who reported 10 bugs that were subsequently liked by the Discourse team. (Captioned by AI)
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The image shows a "Senior Tester" badge awarded to Moin for reporting 25 bugs that were liked by the Discourse team, with the badge being granted on July 1, 2021. (Captioned by AI)
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I’m not sure this is a big enough problem to worry about, and as James wrote back in 2023 fiddling with it may cause more issues when run against historical data.

This is a quirk in the query we use here on meta but not something most people will notice or care about. It came up now for you @NateDhaliwal because of the backfilling.

Like Moin, my tester and senior tester badges show the same date. In my case it’s Aug 9, 2014. Weirdly, the earliest bug reporter badge I got is a year after that, Feb 18, 2015. :person_shrugging: Maybe that first bug topic I reported got deleted.

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