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
3 awarded
First bounty you manually award on your own question
10 awarded
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
77 awarded
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
4 awarded
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
1 awarded
Question saved by 25 users
46 awarded
Question saved by 100 users
2 awarded
First bounty you offer on another person's question
11 awarded
Question score of 10 or more
435 awarded
Question score of 25 or more
123 awarded
Question score of 100 or more
18 awarded
Question with 1,000 views
268 awarded
Question with 2,500 views
110 awarded
Question with 10,000 views
30 awarded
First bounty you offer on your own question
17 awarded
Ask a question and accept an answer
512 awarded
First question with score of 1 or more
1.4k awarded

Answer Badges

First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
28 awarded
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
22 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
1 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
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
Answer score of 10 or more
115 awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
14 awarded
Answer score of 100 or more
1 awarded
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
147 awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
110 awarded
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
51 awarded
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
656 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
25.9k awarded
Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
Leave 10 comments
191 awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
1 awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
212 awarded
Visit the site each day for 100 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
92 awarded
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
10 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
One post with score of 2 on meta
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
Post 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat
21 awarded
Post 10 messages in chat starred by 10 different users
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
1.4k awarded

Tag Badges

You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
17 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
475 awarded
Raise 80 helpful flags
11 awarded
Raise 500 helpful flags
2 awarded
Vote 300 or more times
14 awarded
First rollback
26 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
5 awarded
First down vote
216 awarded
Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
256 awarded
Complete at least 250 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
4 awarded
Complete at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded multiple times per review type
1 awarded
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
24 awarded
First edit
933 awarded
Edit 80 posts
5 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
5 awarded
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
131 awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
1 awarded
First retag
99 awarded
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
4 awarded
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
4 awarded
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
Use 30 votes in a day
30 awarded
First up vote
4.7k awarded
First approved tag synonym
7 awarded
First tag wiki edit
47 awarded
Edit 50 tag wikis
2 awarded
Create a tag used by 50 questions
16 awarded
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
22 awarded

Other Badges

Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
84 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
2 awarded
Participated in the private API beta; +2000 rep bonus
44 awarded
Actively participated in the private API beta; +4000 rep bonus
15 awarded

Retired Badges

Visited every section of the FAQ
157 awarded
Completed the annual Stack Overflow survey; your responses are anonymous
Provide an answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score
1 awarded
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
249 awarded