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I dupe-hammered a question tagged with and which hasn't been edited; tags were added by the OP. I have both gold badges, however, I have more votes on plus I acquired it before .

This could be ; nevertheless, I would like to know why was chosen over ?

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  • awarded in March, 2014. Total votes: 1965
  • awarded in January, 2015. Total votes: 1195

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Just to clarify my question, is there a specific criteria behind it or is it a random behavior?

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    It looks like the tag with more questions/higher traffic is picked.
    – Omar
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 16:36
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    @πάνταῥεῖ no. I have edited my question to reflect date of awarding each tag as well as total votes.
    – Omar
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 16:41
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    My guess would be alphabetic order rather than some complex algorithm
    – Paulie_D
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 18:03
  • @Paulie_D no, tags are re-arranged by number of questions. I tagged this question with discussion, dupe-hammer and lastly tags; they were re-arranged because tags has more questions.
    – Omar
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 18:17
  • @rene the deleted answer contradicts that. Maybe it selects the first tag entered by the OP.
    – Omar
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 19:00
  • See the comments on this Meta SE post. They're inconclusive, but it's (reportedly) not based on number of questions in the tag.
    – ThisSuitIsBlackNot
    Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 19:52
  • It happened again (stackoverflow.com/q/36373434/1771795) I would love to know why?
    – Omar
    Commented Apr 2, 2016 at 21:19
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    Normally, I wouldn't upvote a question complaining about too many gold badges, but that flag. Have an upvote.
    – Evan Carroll
    Commented Jun 12, 2017 at 20:44

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