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Questions don't count towards a user's badge score. This might make sense on the main sites, which thrive primarily through answers contributed by regular users.

But those same regular users post relevant questions (as well as answers) on the meta sites, contributing bug reports, feature requests, and initiating important discussions about e.g. policy, thereby advancing the entire community and providing valuable input for the continued improvement of the SE software.

For , and , the opening post (question) is at least as important a contribution to the site as any answer. Most of the top-rated questions are also important contributions and discuss e.g. moderation policy. Simpler, less relevant support questions don't get a lot of upvotes anyway.

That contributing questions on meta is an important metric for overall meta/community contribution is shown by their inclusion e.g. in moderator election pages.

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Question also count towards a user's meta site activity, therefore making the treatment of question scores inconsistent.

Questions scores on meta sites, at least the child metas, should therefore count towards the tag scores, equal to answers.

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I don’t think badges are important on meta.

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Well, they are only relevant insofar as you consider any tag badges relevant. Main site bagdes indicate quality in computer hardware/software participation, meta site badges do the same for meta discussions. So this might well vary from user to user. I also petitioned for the removal of quite a few of them without much success. But since they exist, they should be done properly. Otherwise they distort the impression of user activity and participation. Providing wrong information is worse than no information. – Daniel Beck Feb 11 at 19:19
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Note that you didn't actually respond to the topic at hand. It's about the mechanics of tag badges, not about their relevance or right to exist. Thanks anyway, for stating your reason to downvote. – Daniel Beck Feb 11 at 19:25
@DanielBeck I like to think of them as of vestigial organs. They don’t serve any function, but they also don’t cause any harm. – kinokijuf Feb 11 at 19:27
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@kinokijuf they do serve a function - it shows activity on meta, how well a user has participated. – Simon Sheehan Feb 11 at 19:40
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