No, badges are never taken away. That's part of the site's design. However, if you no longer meet the criteria for a badge (say your "great question" got busted back down to 99 votes), then you won't earn another one of those badges until you "catch up."
What are badges? Badges are awarded to users in recognition of their contributions to the community. There are many ways to contribute, and consequently, there are many badges. There are three ranks of badges. Bronze badges are relatively easy to get, and often help teach users how to use the sys...
The "make up badge" is no longer the case - we will appropriately award badges now for things that qualify as they qualify completely independently of past badges. The old code literally counted badges, did a diff and assigned new ones...all badge queries now get and compare each individual caus...
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