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I guess sunsetting documentation is going into the final stretch, as I was just awarded the Documentation badge for "Earned at least one badge for contributing to Stack Overflow Documentation", as per Documentation is read-only. What’s next?.

Strangely enough, I seem to have two of them (see here). I'm guessing this is a bug?

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    I also just received 2 badges. It says "at least" so I guess 1+ is ok?
    – DarkCygnus
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:14
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    This is a bug that we are working on fixing. One of the badges will be removed shortly. Sorry.
    – Jon Ericson
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:15
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    I'm okay with having two badges. Everyone knows two shinies are better than one.
    – Mage Xy
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:16
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    Jon giveth, and Jon taketh away.
    – user4639281
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:19
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    I'll have you note that Adam taketh away, @TinyGiant. ;-)
    – Jon Ericson
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:40
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    Hey now, Adam giveth in the first place too.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:40
  • I'm going on a limb here and state just about everyone got it twice. It's probably fixed for the same amount of users by now as well.
    – Mast
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:46
  • @JonEricson isn't there a rule that badges are never revoked unless they were obtained by egregious cheating?
    – Robert Columbia
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:46
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    @RobertColumbia Doesn't get much more egregious than "without realizing it, telepathically convince the developer to make a mistake".
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:48
  • @AdamLear It was an accident, I swear. Please don't ban me!
    – Mage Xy
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 21:51

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So, fun fact: prod, unlike dev, has a scheduled badge task. :) So I kicked off a grant and the normal scheduled task ran at the same time.

Everything should be just about cleaned up now, sorry about that. The good news, as was pointed out to me, is that the next time we decide to shut down Documentation, I should know better.

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    So you've documented it now?
    – Machavity Mod
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 22:03
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    @Machavity And make it easy for others to learn from my hard-earned mistakes? They wish.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 22:04
  • I see the change reflected in my badges, and now only got 1 Doc Badge. However, my user flair still counts the phantom badge (should be 9 instead of 10 silver badges in my case). Caching maybe?
    – DarkCygnus
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 23:44
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    @GrayCygnus Yeah, probably. Flairs are pretty heavily cached, but I'll check tomorrow and see if it's something else instead. Thanks for the heads up.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Oct 9, 2017 at 23:45
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    "the next time we decide to shut down Documentation, I should know better." Hahaha!
    – Draco18s no longer trusts SE
    Commented Oct 10, 2017 at 3:48
  • Btw, the description of the badge includes a link to the Docs page. (Earned at least one badge for contributing to **Stack Overflow Documentation**.) But shouldn't the hyperlink be removed since it'll eventually be pointing to a broken page?
    – Panda
    Commented Oct 11, 2017 at 14:15
  • @Panda Click it. :)
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Oct 11, 2017 at 15:31
  • @AdamLear Thanks for your reply! Initially I thought that the page would be removed eventually, but then I realised that the /teams page still accessible too ;-)
    – Panda
    Commented Oct 12, 2017 at 15:12

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