I've looked to see if this has already been discussed but can't see it so here goes. I noticed I had acquired a 2nd badge this morning but when I clicked to try and find out what for I couldn't find the answer that triggered the award. Then I got a long long list of ebayers names who also seem to have been awarded at the same time as me. Here is one example of many.http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/members/g
od-16/badges/
This poster han't posted since December 2000! - and there's lots more.
apparently I acquired two badges around 1730 last night, but presumably that's the time the robots awarded them rather than the time I actually did anything.
as for poor god... he has a Quick Draw badge for a "best answer which was also a first answer". Yet he only gave two answers, one of which was deleted; the other was a first and only answer but was not marked as best answer.
jno, god is one of many whose badge doesn't make sense. I looked at another one where the poster had only ever posted one answer in 2001, 4 DAYS, after the question was posed, and got a Quick Draw badge. OK, he was the first to answer, but 4 DAYS after the question appeared and didn't get best answer.
I am still trying to find out what I got the 2nd one for; I suspect it's a mistake.
At the risk once again of my gun backfiring, it is my opinion that the the system for Badges should have commenced from the very first day it was introduced; without any reference to past events and statistics.