[zamalek]

Which is fine were I to care less about correctness: rewarding the person who answered correctly does nothing about the green tick on the incorrect or incomplete answer. The gamification was a device to improve the quality of the content on the website, which worked really well until human nature found the path of least resistance.

The badge is an acknowledgement of a problem/bug in the design of the game, not a fix.

[lfowles]

If it's any consolation, as a regular reader, I rarely look for the answer with the green checkmark. I read through the top X answers until I find one that answers the question in terms I can understand. Perhaps a better fix is to mark the question as Answered, rather than mark a Specific Answer.