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.

All Earned Unearned Gold Silver Bronze

Question Badges

Altruist

First bounty you manually award on another person's question

11.4k awarded

Benefactor

First bounty you manually award on your own question

55.1k awarded

Curious

Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record

419k awarded

Investor

First bounty you offer on another person's question

24.3k awarded

Nice Question

Question score of 10 or more

844.7k awarded

Answer Badges

Explainer

Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)

77.7k awarded

Nice Answer

Answer score of 10 or more

1.7m awarded

Revival

Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more

614.4k awarded

Self-Learner

Answer your own question with score of 3 or more

217.4k awarded

Teacher

Answer a question with score of 1 or more

2.1m awarded

Participation Badges

Autobiographer

Complete "About Me" section of user profile

3.3m awarded

Caucus

Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote

992.9k awarded

Commentator

Leave 10 comments

1.2m awarded

Mortarboard

Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day

43.7k awarded

Precognitive

Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase

Quorum

One post with score of 2 on meta

30.2k awarded

Talkative

Post 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat

12.1k awarded

Tag Badges

Bronze Badge

You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.

189.7k awarded

Moderation Badges

Citizen Patrol

First flagged post

261.3k awarded

Cleanup

First rollback

68.1k awarded

Critic

First down vote

543.9k awarded

Custodian

Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type

1.2m awarded

Disciplined

Delete own post with score of 3 or higher

15.7k awarded

Editor

First edit

3.6m awarded

Excavator

Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months

183.8k awarded

Guide

Review 10 posts in Staging Ground

293 awarded

Organizer

First retag

150.3k awarded

Peer Pressure

Delete own post with score of -3 or lower

356k awarded

Proofreader

Approve or reject 100 suggested edits

20.8k awarded

Suffrage

Use 30 votes in a day

61.8k awarded

Supporter

First up vote

2.0m awarded

Synonymizer

First approved tag synonym

1.3k awarded

Tag Editor

First tag wiki edit

26.9k awarded

Vox Populi

Use the maximum 40 votes in a day

41.7k awarded

Other Badges

Announcer

Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses

306.9k awarded

Informed

Read the entire tour page

3.6m awarded

Retired Badges

Analytical

Visited every section of the FAQ

43.5k awarded

Tumbleweed

Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week

1.1m awarded

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