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I was just notified that I received the Vox Populi badge on Super User, which is apparently awarded for voting 40 times in a single day. I don't vote nearly that often (I average about vote every 2 days), so I can't fathom that I ever made 40 votes in a single day. Especially not yesterday or today, since I did almost nothing at all on the site either of those days.

Is there a bug in how Vox Populi is calculated that caused it to be awarded to me in error?

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  • I just got it on Fitness as well, where I know for sure that I've never voted on 40 posts in one day
    – Ivo Flipse Mod
    Commented Feb 22, 2012 at 22:48
  • +1 this just happened to me
    – Nate Koppenhaver
    Commented Feb 23, 2012 at 1:57

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We just deployed a change that affects the voting badges. This is why you see a number of these badges being awarded.

For more information about this change, you can see this answer.

Note that there is a bug with Vox Populi only that is awarding too many of them, beyond the expected more for retroactive awards, and a fix is being deployed now. The erroneous awards there will be cleaned up shortly.

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    It appears that Vox Populi has now been removed from my list of awarded badges, so it seems like the fix worked.
    – Spiff
    Commented Feb 22, 2012 at 23:01

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