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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

Altruist

First bounty you manually awarded on another person's question

3.5k awarded

Benefactor

First bounty you manually awarded on your own question

18.1k awarded

Favorite Question

Question favorited by 25 users

12k awarded

Stellar Question

Question favorited by 100 users

1.5k awarded

Investor

First bounty you offered on another person's question

6.9k awarded

Nice Question

Question score of 10 or more

155.1k awarded

Good Question

Question score of 25 or more

38.9k awarded

Great Question

Question score of 100 or more

4.8k awarded

Answer Badges

Enlightened

First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more

111.3k awarded

Generalist

Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags

501 awarded

Guru

Accepted answer and score of 40 or more

24.6k awarded

Nice Answer

Answer score of 10 or more

357.8k awarded

Good Answer

Answer score of 25 or more

86.9k awarded

Great Answer

Answer score of 100 or more

10.7k awarded

Populist

Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x

4.3k awarded

Reversal

Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score

160 awarded

Revival

Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more

108.1k awarded

Necromancer

Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more

106.5k awarded

Self-Learner

Answered your own question with score of 3 or more

41.4k awarded

Teacher

Answered first question with score of 1 or more

542.2k awarded

Tenacious

Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total

18.3k awarded

Unsung Hero

Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total

6.5k awarded

Participation Badges

Autobiographer

Completed all user profile fields

108.6k awarded

Caucus

Visited an election during any phase of an active election and had enough reputation to cast a vote

85.1k awarded

Constituent

Voted for a candidate in the final phase of an election

20.7k awarded

Commentator

Left 10 comments

293.7k awarded

Pundit

Left 10 comments with score of 5 or more

3.9k awarded

Enthusiast

Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days

61.9k awarded

Fanatic

Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive days

10.4k awarded

Mortarboard

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

16.1k awarded

Epic

Earned 200 daily reputation 50 times

421 awarded

Legendary

Earned 200 daily reputation 150 times

156 awarded

Precognitive

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

Beta

Actively participated in the private beta

2.5k awarded

Quorum

One post with score of 2 on meta

14.1k awarded

Convention

10 posts with score of 2 on meta

1.4k awarded

Talkative

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

4.2k awarded

Outspoken

Posted 10 messages in chat that were starred by 10 different users

515 awarded

Yearling

Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation

325k 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.

50.8k awarded

Silver Badge

You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.

9.2k awarded

Gold Badge

You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.

2.7k awarded

Moderation Badges

Citizen Patrol

First flagged post

67.3k awarded

Deputy

Raised 80 helpful flags

3.3k awarded

Marshal

Raised 500 helpful flags

755 awarded

Civic Duty

Voted 300 or more times

27.6k awarded

Cleanup

First rollback

15.8k awarded

Constable

Served as a pro-tem moderator for at least 1 year or through site graduation

Sheriff

Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year

15 awarded

Critic

First down vote

134.2k awarded

Custodian

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

96.1k awarded

Reviewer

Completed at least 250 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type

6.7k awarded

Steward

Completed at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type

2.1k awarded

Disciplined

Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher

5.4k awarded

Editor

First edit

640k awarded

Strunk & White

Edited 80 posts

5.5k awarded

Copy Editor

Edited 500 posts

1k awarded

Electorate

Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions

4.7k awarded

Excavator

Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months

38.3k awarded

Archaeologist

Edited 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months

534 awarded

Organizer

First retag

53.7k awarded

Peer Pressure

Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower

35.4k awarded

Proofreader

Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits

4.5k awarded

Sportsmanship

Up voted 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score

1.4k awarded

Suffrage

Used 30 votes in a day

17.1k awarded

Supporter

First up vote

454.8k awarded

Synonymizer

First approved tag synonym

501 awarded

Tag Editor

First tag wiki edit

10.9k awarded

Research Assistant

Edited 50 tag wikis

127 awarded

Taxonomist

Created a tag used by 50 questions

7k awarded

Vox Populi

Used the maximum 40 votes in a day

8.5k awarded

Other Badges

Analytical

Visited every section of the FAQ (retired)

44.3k awarded

Announcer

Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses

19.7k awarded

Booster

Shared a link to a question that was visited by 300 unique IP addresses

876 awarded

Publicist

Shared a link to a question that was visited by 1000 unique IP addresses

341 awarded

Informed

Read the entire about page

69.2k awarded

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