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
1.3k
awarded
First bounty you manually award on your own question
6.3k
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
32.2k
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
4.1k
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
700
awarded
Question saved by 25 users
3k
awarded
Question saved by 100 users
251
awarded
First bounty you offer on another person's question
2.2k
awarded
Question score of 10 or more
39.7k
awarded
Question score of 25 or more
7.6k
awarded
Question score of 100 or more
622
awarded
Question with 1,000 views
217.6k
awarded
Question with 2,500 views
91.3k
awarded
Question with 10,000 views
19.5k
awarded
First bounty you offer on your own question
11.1k
awarded
Ask a question and accept an answer
174.2k
awarded
First question with score of 1 or more
259.9k
awarded
Answer Badges
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
22.4k
awarded
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
6.5k
awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
317
awarded
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
25
awarded
Answer saved by 25 users
4
awarded
Answer saved by 100 users
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
693
awarded
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
2.9k
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
383
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
8
awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
66.4k
awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
13k
awarded
Answer score of 100 or more
948
awarded
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
537
awarded
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
20.3k
awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
12.6k
awarded
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
4.1k
awarded
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
75.1k
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
1.5k
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total
447
awarded
Participation Badges
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
150.1k
awarded
Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote
26.8k
awarded
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
10.8k
awarded
Leave 10 comments
61.8k
awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
1.2k
awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
11.7k
awarded
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
4.4k
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
96
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times
39
awarded
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
63
awarded
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
60
awarded
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
256
awarded
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
140.6k
awarded
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
14.7k
awarded
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
2.7k
awarded
You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
740
awarded
Moderation Badges
First flagged post
13.6k
awarded
Raise 80 helpful flags
657
awarded
Raise 500 helpful flags
165
awarded
Vote 300 or more times
4.7k
awarded
First rollback
4.3k
awarded
Served as a pro-tem moderator for at least 1 year or through site graduation
6
awarded
Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year
21
awarded
First down vote
25.5k
awarded
Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
54.9k
awarded
Complete at least 250 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
2.1k
awarded
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
3.8k
awarded
First edit
221.2k
awarded
Edit 80 posts
1.4k
awarded
Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits)
342
awarded
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
1.5k
awarded
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
10.2k
awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
146
awarded
First retag
8.2k
awarded
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
14k
awarded
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
872
awarded
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
463
awarded
Use 30 votes in a day
3.3k
awarded
First up vote
165.7k
awarded
First approved tag synonym
47
awarded
First tag wiki edit
784
awarded
Edit 50 tag wikis
21
awarded
Create a tag used by 50 questions
655
awarded
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
2.3k
awarded
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
7.7k
awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
741
awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 1000 unique IP addresses
173
awarded
Retired Badges
Visited every section of the FAQ
1.1k
awarded
Completed the annual Stack Overflow survey; your responses are anonymous
Provide an answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score
19
awarded
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
34.5k
awarded