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
169 awarded
First bounty you manually award on your own question
1.7k awarded
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
5.7k awarded
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
215 awarded
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
17 awarded
Question saved by 25 users
778 awarded
Question saved by 100 users
88 awarded
First bounty you offer on another person's question
418 awarded
Question score of 10 or more
11.9k awarded
Question score of 25 or more
3.4k awarded
Question score of 100 or more
421 awarded
Question with 1,000 views
158.6k awarded
Question with 2,500 views
91.5k awarded
Question with 10,000 views
28.4k awarded
First bounty you offer on your own question
4k awarded
Ask a question and accept an answer
65k awarded
First question with score of 1 or more
93.6k awarded

Answer Badges

First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
6.3k awarded
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
986 awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
23 awarded
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
Answer saved by 25 users
1 awarded
Answer saved by 100 users
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
83 awarded
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
1.6k 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
157 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
7 awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
21.8k awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
5.9k awarded
Answer score of 100 or more
676 awarded
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
259 awarded
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
11.1k awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
9.3k awarded
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
4.9k awarded
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
67.3k awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
477 awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total
136 awarded

Participation Badges

Complete "About Me" section of user profile
471.5k awarded
Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote
8.3k awarded
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
3.6k awarded
Leave 10 comments
17.3k awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
124 awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
2.5k awarded
Visit the site each day for 100 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
745 awarded
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
689 awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
8 awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times
2 awarded
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
1.5k awarded
One post with score of 2 on meta
983 awarded
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
66 awarded
Post 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat
365 awarded
Post 10 messages in chat starred by 10 different users
120 awarded
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
58.7k awarded

Tag Badges

You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
1.9k awarded
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
266 awarded
You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
54 awarded

Moderation Badges

First flagged post
7.2k awarded
Raise 80 helpful flags
247 awarded
Raise 500 helpful flags
53 awarded
Vote 300 or more times
810 awarded
First rollback
630 awarded
Served as a pro-tem moderator for at least 1 year or through site graduation
2 awarded
Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year
16 awarded
First down vote
10.2k awarded
Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
9.7k awarded
Complete at least 250 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
398 awarded
Complete at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded multiple times per review type
313 awarded
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
178 awarded
First edit
83.6k awarded
Edit 80 posts
169 awarded
Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits)
43 awarded
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
191 awarded
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
6.8k awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
34 awarded
First retag
2.8k awarded
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
2k awarded
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
142 awarded
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
42 awarded
Use 30 votes in a day
690 awarded
First up vote
141.3k awarded
First approved tag synonym
46 awarded
First tag wiki edit
865 awarded
Edit 50 tag wikis
5 awarded
Create a tag used by 50 questions
1.1k awarded
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
395 awarded

Other Badges

Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
3.9k awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
571 awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 1000 unique IP addresses
147 awarded
Read the entire tour page
39.5k awarded

Retired Badges

Visited every section of the FAQ
1.2k awarded
Completed the annual Stack Overflow survey; your responses are anonymous
203 awarded
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
28.3k awarded