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I answered a new question and also flagged it as a duplicate of an existing question. A moderator expertly merged it with the existing, somewhat old question. I subsequently received the Necromancer badge.

Is this by design? If it's unintended, does it make sense? (I realize the stakes--badges--are low.)

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Logically, it makes sense. What's the reason why you think it's not merited? – Matt Chan♦ Sep 23 '11 at 23:47
I can see it both ways. On the one hand, all I did was answer a new question that happened to get merged with an old one. On the other hand, because I did so, the old question got answered. In this case, I was the reason for it getting merged--but if I weren't, it would be a little weird. Doesn't much matter--since Jeff is indicating that changing it in the back-end would be ugly, I don't think it's worth worrying about. – Dave Liepmann Sep 24 '11 at 1:08

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Yes, this is a known issue with necromancer. There's no real way to fix it w/r/t merged questions that isn't unspeakably painful, so.. enjoy your badge. :)

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