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
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
42.3k
awarded
Question saved by 25 users
69.7k
awarded
Question score of 25 or more
296.7k
awarded
Question with 2,500 views
4.0m
awarded
Answer Badges
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
537.2k
awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
2.7k
awarded
Answer saved by 25 users
1k
awarded
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
2.6k
awarded
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
187.6k
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
15.8k
awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
626.6k
awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
973.5k
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
68.7k
awarded
Participation Badges
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
315.4k
awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
14k
awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
323.6k
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
775
awarded
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
2.5k
awarded
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
2.4k
awarded
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
3.5m
awarded
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
38.2k
awarded
Moderation Badges
Raise 80 helpful flags
14.6k
awarded
Vote 300 or more times
133.2k
awarded
Edit 80 posts
20.3k
awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
3k
awarded
Review 250 posts in Staging Ground
16
awarded
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
3.3k
awarded
Edit 50 tag wikis
344
awarded
Create a tag used by 50 questions
15.7k
awarded
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
47k
awarded
Met a Stack Overflow employee at an event where Stack Overflow was an organizer or participant with 50 or more attendees
1.1k
awarded
Reviewed at least one question and gave feedback during a Staging Ground Beta test round
79
awarded
Retired Badges
Completed the annual Stack Overflow survey; your responses are anonymous
188k
awarded
Contributed 3+ substantive pieces of documentation during the private beta
291
awarded
Contributed 3+ substantive pieces of documentation in the first month of documentation
2.3k
awarded
Earned at least one badge for contributing to Stack Overflow Documentation
42.8k
awarded