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
84
awarded
First bounty you manually award on your own question
186
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
801
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
98
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
15
awarded
Question saved by 25 users
124
awarded
Question saved by 100 users
6
awarded
First bounty you offer on another person's question
100
awarded
Question score of 10 or more
8.9k
awarded
Question score of 25 or more
2.5k
awarded
Question score of 100 or more
83
awarded
Question with 1,000 views
13.4k
awarded
Question with 2,500 views
7.6k
awarded
Question with 10,000 views
1.2k
awarded
First bounty you offer on your own question
226
awarded
Ask a question and accept an answer
5.6k
awarded
First question with score of 1 or more
10k
awarded
Answer Badges
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
2.6k
awarded
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
349
awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
13
awarded
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
1
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
236
awarded
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
1.5k
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
205
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
9
awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
26.7k
awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
7.7k
awarded
Answer score of 100 or more
381
awarded
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
455
awarded
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
198
awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
485
awarded
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
118
awarded
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
15.2k
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total
Participation Badges
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
27.2k
awarded
Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote
2.4k
awarded
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
1.3k
awarded
Leave 10 comments
5.3k
awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
625
awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
897
awarded
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
1.5k
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
36
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times
8
awarded
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
73
awarded
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
45
awarded
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
80
awarded
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
20.5k
awarded
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
2.3k
awarded
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
302
awarded
You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
55
awarded
Moderation Badges
First flagged post
2.3k
awarded
Raise 80 helpful flags
49
awarded
Raise 500 helpful flags
8
awarded
Vote 300 or more times
858
awarded
First rollback
251
awarded
Served as a pro-tem moderator for at least 1 year or through site graduation
4
awarded
Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year
9
awarded
First down vote
3.9k
awarded
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
134
awarded
First edit
12.2k
awarded
Edit 80 posts
66
awarded
Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits)
15
awarded
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
89
awarded
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
437
awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
4
awarded
First retag
495
awarded
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
334
awarded
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
39
awarded
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
98
awarded
Use 30 votes in a day
424
awarded
First up vote
23.5k
awarded
First approved tag synonym
18
awarded
First tag wiki edit
141
awarded
Edit 50 tag wikis
8
awarded
Create a tag used by 50 questions
123
awarded
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
212
awarded
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
335
awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
13
awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 1000 unique IP addresses
5
awarded
Retired Badges
Visited every section of the FAQ
Completed the annual Stack Overflow survey; your responses are anonymous
Provide an answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score
7
awarded
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week