Badges
Besides gaining reputation with your questions and answers, you receive badges for being especially helpful. Badges appear on your profile page, flair, and your posts.
Question Badges
First bounty you manually award on another person's question
68
awarded
First bounty you manually award on your own question
283
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
2.2k
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
244
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
48
awarded
Question saved by 25 users
400
awarded
Question saved by 100 users
29
awarded
First bounty you offer on another person's question
109
awarded
Question score of 10 or more
8.1k
awarded
Question score of 25 or more
1.4k
awarded
Question score of 100 or more
53
awarded
Question with 1,000 views
12.1k
awarded
Question with 2,500 views
4k
awarded
Question with 10,000 views
590
awarded
First bounty you offer on your own question
503
awarded
Ask a question and accept an answer
12.3k
awarded
First question with score of 1 or more
20.6k
awarded
Answer Badges
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
5.1k
awarded
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
345
awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
33
awarded
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
2
awarded
Answer saved by 25 users
Answer saved by 100 users
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
109
awarded
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
324
awarded
Answer score of 5 or more to a question score of -2 or less that goes on to receive a score of 2 or more
59
awarded
Answer score of 20 or more to a question score of -3 or less that goes on to receive a score of 3 or more
4
awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
14.3k
awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
1.8k
awarded
Answer score of 100 or more
56
awarded
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
56
awarded
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
2.5k
awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
2.9k
awarded
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
1.1k
awarded
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
4.8k
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
5
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total
Participation Badges
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
17.4k
awarded
Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote
1.3k
awarded
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
693
awarded
Leave 10 comments
4.3k
awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
119
awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
759
awarded
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
301
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
13
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times
4
awarded
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
57
awarded
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
48
awarded
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
40
awarded
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
13k
awarded
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
1.6k
awarded
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
272
awarded
You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
70
awarded
Moderation Badges
First flagged post
894
awarded
Raise 80 helpful flags
31
awarded
Raise 500 helpful flags
2
awarded
Vote 300 or more times
391
awarded
First rollback
206
awarded
Served as a pro-tem moderator for at least 1 year or through site graduation
3
awarded
Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year
6
awarded
First down vote
1.5k
awarded
Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
1.9k
awarded
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
185
awarded
First edit
14.1k
awarded
Edit 80 posts
89
awarded
Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits)
28
awarded
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
133
awarded
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
386
awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
16
awarded
First retag
379
awarded
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
237
awarded
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
29
awarded
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
84
awarded
Use 30 votes in a day
217
awarded
First up vote
14.2k
awarded
First approved tag synonym
17
awarded
First tag wiki edit
96
awarded
Edit 50 tag wikis
5
awarded
Create a tag used by 50 questions
138
awarded
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
150
awarded
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
2.1k
awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
111
awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 1000 unique IP addresses
31
awarded
Retired Badges
Visited every section of the FAQ
142
awarded
Completed the annual Stack Overflow survey; your responses are anonymous
Provide an answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score
5
awarded
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
697
awarded