For the sake of simplicity, I will only refer to Mortarboard in this post, but every time I state it, it is also referring to Epic and Legendary
The other day I was awarded the Mortarboard badge here on Meta. This confused me, as you of course can't gain any rep on a Meta site. So I did some research, and one of the first things I found was this question: "Mortarboard" continues to be awarded on Meta Stack Overflow. One of the tags are status-bydesign.
But I must ask the question: Why? It feels unnecessary, given Meta can't effect your reputation anyways.
Is there any explanation of why we have it here on Meta?
