<p>A gold tag badge requires 1000 votes in at least 200 posts. Could we not fast-track <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/63835/what-are-tag-badges-how-do-they-work">the rights</a> that relate to such badges? </p>

<p>The current rate at which people (especially non-moderators) acquire these badges is not such fast that we get a reasonable amount of (non-moderator) superusers in specific areas of expertise:</p>

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<sup>Note: year has been calculated from the date as $yyyy+(mm-1)/12+(dd-1)/365$</sup></p>
