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Browsing through the badges, I couldn't help but notice some badges which didn't fit or were simply too difficult to achieve. They've been bugging me and someone needs to bring them up.

I made a list as follows with my problem with each badge:

I don't want to offend anyone but I'm just raising an issue I have with this site. Can someone help?

Browsing through the badges, I couldn't help but notice some badges which didn't fit or were simply too difficult to achieve. They've been bugging me and someone needs to bring them up.

I made a list as follows with my problem with each badge:

  • Tumbleweed (0 awarded) - Seems to me that it is bad to achieve this, 0 awarded and generally pointless

  • Stellar Question (0 awarded) - Seems too difficult, our highest voted puzzle only has 51, and the most favorites on a question only has 72. Maybe 50 would be a good barrier considering the Favorite Question is 25?

  • Illuminator (0 awarded) - The Refiner badge (which has only been awarded twice) needs 50. The Iluminator badge needs 500, that is a massive gap which should be decreased, maybe to 100 or 200?

  • Generalist (0 awarded) - Seems too difficult, maybe 10 out of 40 instead of 20?

  • Tenacious and Unsung Hero (Both 0 awarded) - To me these seem like these are pointless, it would mean that a load of poor questions would have been posted.

  • Legendary (0 awarded) - Another one where the badge above, Epic has only been awarded twice and that requires 50, the Legendary badge requires 150. Maybe 100 would be appropriate.

  • Gold tag badge (0 awarded) - The Silver tag badge has only been awarded twice. That requires 400. Gold requires 1000. Seems too high.

  • Steward (0 awarded) - The Reviewer badge requires 250, Steward requires 1000, I think this should be halved to 500

  • Booster and Publicist (Both 0 awarded) - 25 IP addresses has been achieved 21 times, these two badges require 300 and 1000. 1000 definitely needs to be decreased at least, maybe to 500?

I don't want to offend anyone but I'm just raising an issue I have with this site. Can someone help?

Browsing through the badges, I couldn't help but notice some badges which didn't fit or were simply too difficult to achieve. They've been bugging me and someone needs to bring them up.

I made a list as follows with my problem with each badge:

  • Tumbleweed (0 awarded) - Seems to me that it is bad to achieve this, 0 awarded and generally pointless

  • Stellar Question (0 awarded) - Seems too difficult, our highest voted puzzle only has 51, and the most favorites on a question only has 72. Maybe 50 would be a good barrier considering the Favorite Question is 25?

  • Illuminator (0 awarded) - The Refiner badge (which has only been awarded twice) needs 50. The Iluminator badge needs 500, that is a massive gap which should be decreased, maybe to 100 or 200?

  • Generalist (0 awarded) - Seems too difficult, maybe 10 out of 40 instead of 20?

  • Tenacious and Unsung Hero (Both 0 awarded) - To me these seem like these are pointless, it would mean that a load of poor questions would have been posted.

  • Legendary (0 awarded) - Another one where the badge above, Epic has only been awarded twice and that requires 50, the Legendary badge requires 150. Maybe 100 would be appropriate.

  • Gold tag badge (0 awarded) - The Silver tag badge has only been awarded twice. That requires 400. Gold requires 1000. Seems too high.

  • Steward (0 awarded) - The Reviewer badge requires 250, Steward requires 1000, I think this should be halved to 500

  • Booster and Publicist (Both 0 awarded) - 25 IP addresses has been achieved 21 times, these two badges require 300 and 1000. 1000 definitely needs to be decreased at least, maybe to 500?

I don't want to offend anyone but I'm just raising an issue I have with this site. Can someone help?

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Too difficult or pointless badges

Browsing through the badges, I couldn't help but notice some badges which didn't fit or were simply too difficult to achieve. They've been bugging me and someone needs to bring them up.

I made a list as follows with my problem with each badge:

  • Tumbleweed (0 awarded) - Seems to me that it is bad to achieve this, 0 awarded and generally pointless

  • Stellar Question (0 awarded) - Seems too difficult, our highest voted puzzle only has 51, and the most favorites on a question only has 72. Maybe 50 would be a good barrier considering the Favorite Question is 25?

  • Illuminator (0 awarded) - The Refiner badge (which has only been awarded twice) needs 50. The Iluminator badge needs 500, that is a massive gap which should be decreased, maybe to 100 or 200?

  • Generalist (0 awarded) - Seems too difficult, maybe 10 out of 40 instead of 20?

  • Tenacious and Unsung Hero (Both 0 awarded) - To me these seem like these are pointless, it would mean that a load of poor questions would have been posted.

  • Legendary (0 awarded) - Another one where the badge above, Epic has only been awarded twice and that requires 50, the Legendary badge requires 150. Maybe 100 would be appropriate.

  • Gold tag badge (0 awarded) - The Silver tag badge has only been awarded twice. That requires 400. Gold requires 1000. Seems too high.

  • Steward (0 awarded) - The Reviewer badge requires 250, Steward requires 1000, I think this should be halved to 500

  • Booster and Publicist (Both 0 awarded) - 25 IP addresses has been achieved 21 times, these two badges require 300 and 1000. 1000 definitely needs to be decreased at least, maybe to 500?

I don't want to offend anyone but I'm just raising an issue I have with this site. Can someone help?