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new badge: good timing
The purpose of (most) badges is to encourage a certain behaviour that is deemed good on SE. (There are a few exceptions, like Tumbleweed, and I'm pretty sure they'd go if the badge system was ...
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Editing an already accepted answer after 60 days earns Necromancer badge
Necromancer is awarded for
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
The question was asked January 8, 2015, so that's a lot more than 60 days.
The reason the badge was ...
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Accepted
Double tag badge
On the other hand, this looks a benign bug, and it's not really hurting anyone.
Exactly
Why go and fix something that only happened to one user when no one else is being bothered by the issue?
But on ...
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Critic Badge not awarded instantly
Badges are handed out in batches throughout the day, different batch jobs handle different badge types.
Source: When are badge calculations done? on mother meta.
You must have been lucky on other ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible