Hey all - I posted a question here yesterday, but now start wondering whether or not this question should have been posted here. Any ideas?

@WalterB, you should ask substantive statistical questions on the main site, not in chat. They will be better noticed there, & the sites various editing / markdown features (code, figures, LaTeX, etc) afford better answers. The information will also be better preserved for future searchers.

@Glen_b I guess getting the marshall badge is easier for low-rep users who not yet have access to the close-review queue. For them every flag counts as far as I remember. Of course everyone has their favorite badges. I love the necromancer badge because I feel happy that after such a long time I still found something unanswered and people liked it :-)

From my lens the Legend badge is an outstanding achievement and I think you're being very modest about it, which honors you of course. And especially given the fact that you only need few answers per day to go over 200 says a lot about the quality of your answers!

Yes, necromancer badges are certainly fun when they come up.

whuber and gung each have around 30 of those.

@WalterB You should post, but I think it will need to be clearer to attract useful answers.

@Andy oops, I meant 'usually restricts himself to answering only one question in a day'

There's a tension between trying to help more people asking questions versus giving fewer, higher quality answers and performing better curation of the site. I think whuber (and many of the other veterans of the site) have consistently leaned toward the fewer higher quality answers, even though that must frequently mean not answering questions they have a fantastic answer for ...

(one need only read whuber's comments to see evidence of this - they frequently say more in the first 20 words than the best answer). I think for the value of the site over the longer term that tendency to focus on the highest of quality is mostly the right choice, even if it means that our lowish answer rate is perhaps even a little lower.

I'm still working on learning enough to give better answers.