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 awarded on another person's question
1 awarded
First bounty you manually awarded on your own question
5 awarded
Question favorited by 25 users
Question favorited by 100 users
First bounty you offered on another person's question
2 awarded
Question score of 10 or more
305 awarded
Question score of 25 or more
17 awarded
Question score of 100 or more
Asked a question with 1,000 views
166 awarded
Asked a question with 2,500 views
69 awarded
Asked a question with 10,000 views
12 awarded
First bounty you offered on your own question
7 awarded
Asked a question and accepted an answer
208 awarded
Asked first question with score of 1 or more
320 awarded
Asked a question with no votes, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
3 awarded

Answer Badges

First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
118 awarded
Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
2 awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
325 awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
17 awarded
Answer score of 100 or more
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
1 awarded
Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score
Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more
32 awarded
Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
49 awarded
Answered your own question with score of 3 or more
29 awarded
Answered first question with score of 1 or more
438 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

Completed all user profile fields
641 awarded
Visited an election during any phase of an active election and had enough reputation to cast a vote
Voted for a candidate in the final phase of an election
Left 10 comments
92 awarded
Left 10 comments with score of 5 or more
2 awarded
Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days
35 awarded
Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive days
7 awarded
Earned at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
21 awarded
Earned 200 daily reputation 50 times
Earned 200 daily reputation 150 times
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
54 awarded
Actively participated in the private beta
54 awarded
One post with score of 2 on meta
73 awarded
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
8 awarded
Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat
6 awarded
Posted 10 messages in chat that were starred by 10 different users
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
224 awarded

Tag Badges

You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
2 awarded
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
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
73 awarded
Raised 80 helpful flags
Raised 500 helpful flags
Voted 300 or more times
18 awarded
First rollback
3 awarded
Served as a pro-tem moderator for at least 1 year or through site graduation
3 awarded
Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year
First down vote
90 awarded
Completed at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
192 awarded
Completed at least 250 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
Completed at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher
3 awarded
First edit
272 awarded
Edited 80 posts
2 awarded
Edited 500 posts
Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
1 awarded
Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months
29 awarded
Edited 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
First retag
60 awarded
Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower
2 awarded
Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits
2 awarded
Up voted 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
1 awarded
Used 30 votes in a day
33 awarded
First up vote
652 awarded
First approved tag synonym
2 awarded
First tag wiki edit
26 awarded
Edited 50 tag wikis
Created a tag used by 50 questions
5 awarded
Used the maximum 40 votes in a day
24 awarded

Other Badges

Visited every section of the FAQ (retired)
50 awarded
Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses
6 awarded
Shared a link to a question that was visited by 300 unique IP addresses
1 awarded
Shared a link to a question that was visited by 1000 unique IP addresses
1 awarded
Read the entire about page
64 awarded
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