<p>Disclaimer: This may be gaming the system to an unacceptable degree. It seems like a grey area to me, so I offer this for your consideration. </p>

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<p>If there are particular tags for which we: </p>

<ol>
<li>do not have a gold badge member and think it would be beneficial to have one,  </li>
<li>have a member who's clearly on the path to achieving it, and  </li>
<li>is limited by upvotes rather than by number of answers</li>
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<p>We could, as a community, choose to seek out and upvote the member's answers on that tag (if we think they are helpful, of course). This is leaning on the scales a bit by specifically visiting a set of questions and using our voting power. It's a form of bias, but I think it's worth considering because it is biasing our <em>attention</em> rather than our assessment of quality. </p>

<p>A few votes a day by many of us for one member would probably achieve the goal in days to weeks. </p>
