User: Everything is being really slow. Me: ...everything? User: Yes. Can you reboot everything? Me: *inward sigh* ...yes? I mean I - User: Ok. Let me know when you're done.
You earn badges separately on meta sites from the "normal sites", despite keeping the same rep. So for instance on UX.SE I can review 1000 entries and get the reviewer badge but it's not there on Meta
I'm not really sure why meta participation is separated out in that regard
especially since a couple badges require meta interaction
I think it makes sense that people are rewarded for participating in maintaining their communities. The reputation is inherited from the parent site to make the barrier to entry less, and there are badges on the main site that relate to meta participation to clue people into the fact that meta exists.
That said, I'm not sure that anyone's really asked that question before for there to be an official answer on it...Lemme check.
To a degree it seems to help show who actually uses Meta on Meta because they'll have a couple badges, but for the most part people have 1-10 bronze badges and nothing else regardless of how much they use meta, due to the low volume of content
Badges requiring more than 5 votes, large volumes of edits ect are near impossible
Gaming's meta seems fairly alright in that regard, 239/128 Nice Answer/Question badges awarded, 18/13 Good Answer/Question badges awarded. I'd believe that other per-site metas aren't nearly that active, though. It also pales in comparison to the actual site, or MSO, but I think that by itself is OK.
Heh, there are some badges that are actually impossible though, hrm..
Plus it's just sort of weird...your rep is the same but your badges aren't; normally rep is the instant image of how much/well someone uses a site, on meta it's suddenly the badges that give a rough estimation of how much a user uses the meta site
Aye. The suggested edit related badges are also present on per-site metas.
That's true, but I don't really see a good way around that. Splitting the reputation would make it much harder for people to participate in their metas, and combining the badges would take away any form of reward they might get for doing so.
there's still the meta participation badges. IMO if you added some more meta badges (for upvotes on answers on meta ect) it would give a lot more reason, plus suddenly badges earned on meta show up on the real site
meta doesn't feel quite "real" in the standard gamification because of the no rep + almost no badge-crossover
I'm not able to find an example of someone having asked about this before, so either it's something no one's brought up or my search skills are failing me today...Let's pester @PopularDemand to see if he has any insight.
I suppose I should actually start looking for whatever it was I was supposedly pestered about. What do you guys need, the "official reason why badges are different" on per-site metas?
Might be worth asking about. I doubt at this point they're inclined to change, but if you could get a more official explanation from it it'd be nice. Or, we can just harass @RebeccaChernoff. That's always a good idea.
Badges earned on per-site-meta are separate from the main site, but reputation is carried over from the main site (because you don't earn any on Meta).
I perfectly understand keeping the rep the way it is (meta votes are too subjective to integrate them with rep) but the badge split seems odd t...
Great question, +1. I'm interested to see the discussion on that.
@PopularDemand This seems like a good opportunity for "productive discussion about how the network functions or some insight on how the system could be improved.", eh? =)
I know a lot of female programmers, and I know there are a good number of them out there.
But I don't recall ever having one of my questions answered by, nor have I ever answered a question by a female programmer here at Stack Overflow.
Now I mostly deal in the Delphi tag, and that may mak...
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I think they missed at least one other that I can think of off the top of my head, but I didn't think it should be its own site anyway, so I'm alright with that. :P
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@BenBrocka I know I've seen it before. I used to follow A List Apart and the web standards community. I have about 20-30 programming books. Are you mentioned in any books?
Well, I'm going to let it rest, but, nice to e-meet you.
Does anyone know why 2 /// 2 is 2 in Javascript?
What is this behavior called? Is it documented somewhere? Thanks.
Badges earned on per-site-meta are separate from the main site, but reputation is carried over from the main site (because you don't earn any on Meta).
I perfectly understand keeping the rep the way it is (meta votes are too subjective to integrate them with rep) but the badge split seems odd t...
I know a lot of female programmers, and I know there are a good number of them out there.
But I don't recall ever having one of my questions answered by, nor have I ever answered a question by a female programmer here at Stack Overflow.
Now I mostly deal in the Delphi tag, and that may mak...
