Badges have been around since the beginning of Stack Overflow. They are our way of recognizing our contributors for engaging with the community in meaningful ways. They are a little bit of motivational fun that helped us create the largest place for programming knowledge with over 20M+ questions. But what badges do we have, and… The post Stack Overflow badges explained appeared first on Stack Overflow Blog.
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/12/stack-overflow-badges-explained/
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