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
10
awarded
First bounty you manually award on your own question
32
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
160
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
7
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
1
awarded
Question saved by 25 users
Question saved by 100 users
First bounty you offer on another person's question
21
awarded
Question score of 10 or more
1k
awarded
Question score of 25 or more
92
awarded
Question score of 100 or more
1
awarded
Question with 1,000 views
1.6k
awarded
Question with 2,500 views
802
awarded
Question with 10,000 views
222
awarded
First bounty you offer on your own question
79
awarded
Ask a question and accept an answer
1.6k
awarded
First question with score of 1 or more
4.2k
awarded
Answer Badges
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
453
awarded
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
61
awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
2
awarded
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
Answer saved by 25 users
Answer saved by 100 users
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
23
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
10
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
1
awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
1.1k
awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
150
awarded
Answer score of 100 or more
2
awarded
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
5
awarded
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
435
awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
237
awarded
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
71
awarded
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
1.5k
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
1
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total
Participation Badges
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
8.1k
awarded
Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote
79
awarded
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
Leave 10 comments
375
awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
19
awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
129
awarded
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
45
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
80
awarded
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
35
awarded
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
19
awarded
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
2k
awarded
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
54
awarded
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
2
awarded
You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
Moderation Badges
First flagged post
390
awarded
Raise 80 helpful flags
13
awarded
Raise 500 helpful flags
Vote 300 or more times
54
awarded
First rollback
42
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
First down vote
380
awarded
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
33
awarded
First edit
2.1k
awarded
Edit 80 posts
14
awarded
Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits)
1
awarded
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
17
awarded
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
112
awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
1
awarded
First retag
117
awarded
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
27
awarded
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
8
awarded
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
1
awarded
Use 30 votes in a day
57
awarded
First up vote
4.1k
awarded
First approved tag synonym
6
awarded
First tag wiki edit
61
awarded
Edit 50 tag wikis
Create a tag used by 50 questions
33
awarded
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
41
awarded
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
28
awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
4
awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 1000 unique IP addresses
1
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
2
awarded
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
77
awarded