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points by ryathal 13 hours ago | 0 comments
When they added review queues there were badges tied to closing questions. The queues made a lot of existing problems a lot more public and prominent.
[–] shagie 13 hours ago
Badges had no impact on rep or any moderation or curation abilities on the site. Review queues could be completed with "leave open" or "reopen" rather than closing or leaving closed if one was after getting a badge.
[–] shawn_w 11 hours ago
A gold tag badge lets you do some things like closing a question with a single vote.
[–] matsemann 12 hours ago
Most of the badges was for reviewing, a "this question looks fine to me" gave the same progress as "close the question".