I’ll hold my hand up. I’m an unabashed badge -chaser. I noticed that there is a badge for ‘rated 500 audio dramas’ but I don’t have it even though I the site says I have currently rated 844 of them. The practical reason for this is probably that this badge is not yet automated and I need to make a polite request to @shauny. However, this led me to thinking about how audio dramas are (or should be) counted.
Do we count episodes (so, e.g. Sirens of Time would count as 4), equal-length separate stories (so, e.g. 100 would count as 4), unequal-length separate stories (so, e.g. Exotron / Urban Myths would count as 2), CDs (so, e.g. Sirens of Time would count as 2), boxes (so. e.g. Jago & Litefoot Series 1 would count as 1), separate physical releases (so, e.g. 100 would count as 1), separate website releases (so all those Part 1 ‘teasers’ would count in their own right) and so on. And that’s without the strange edge-cases such as Flip-Flop which could be argued to be either two stories or just one story.
Hey. Hmmm I wonder why you haven’t got that badge yet. Maybe I made a mistake, it should definitely be automated. I’ll look into that!
As for how they are calculated, it’s quite simple - if it has its own page on the website then it’s “1” story. Even if split into different episodes, it’s a single story - so Sirens of Time is 1.
Wonder if they just aren’t triggering. It is a little strange that I don’t have the badge for rating all the 14th Doctors stories, since there are only 3 of them…
Edit: And now the Fugitive & 14th Doctor Badges triggered, though not 15.
I didn’t do anything, so must have just timed out last time. It can only grant so many badges in one go (something I will fix if I upgrade the forum hosting).
No-one has earned 15’s badge - that’s disabled until he regenerates! Might need to make that more clear…
I did a few things on my end, so that might’ve taken care of it. I rerated an episode or two, and logged out and back in. The badges didn’t appear at that point, but they did when I went over to a different computer and logged in.
Wasn’t sure on 15. 14 seemed odd, though, because I’d already had those rated for a good while…
It’s best not to try and force them. To prevent the site constantly checking badge eligibility (which is costly in terms of processing), it only does it 10 mins after you stop rating things, or login. So you might have kept extending that timer
I’ll change that eventually, when I upgrade the forum hosting. Need a few more members first!
That probably is it, then, because I rated those episodes rather closer to when they aired. I expect they were already rated at the time you added the badge.
