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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

23 awarded

Benefactor

First bounty you manually awarded on your own question

112 awarded

Favorite Question

Question favorited by 25 users

10 awarded

Stellar Question

Question favorited by 100 users

1 awarded

Investor

First bounty you offered on another person's question

65 awarded

Nice Question

Question score of 10 or more

656 awarded

Good Question

Question score of 25 or more

99 awarded

Great Question

Question score of 100 or more

6 awarded

Answer Badges

Enlightened

First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more

274 awarded

Generalist

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

Guru

Accepted answer and score of 40 or more

21 awarded

Nice Answer

Answer score of 10 or more

718 awarded

Good Answer

Answer score of 25 or more

119 awarded

Great Answer

Answer score of 100 or more

9 awarded

Populist

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

2 awarded

Reversal

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

Revival

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

598 awarded

Necromancer

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

217 awarded

Self-Learner

Answered your own question with score of 3 or more

163 awarded

Teacher

Answered first question with score of 1 or more

5.1k awarded

Tenacious

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

1 awarded

Unsung Hero

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

Participation Badges

Autobiographer

Completed all user profile fields

10.1k awarded

Caucus

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

701 awarded

Constituent

Voted for a candidate in the final phase of an election

407 awarded

Commentator

Left 10 comments

500 awarded

Pundit

Left 10 comments with score of 5 or more

2 awarded

Enthusiast

Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days

212 awarded

Fanatic

Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive days

71 awarded

Mortarboard

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

46 awarded

Epic

Earned 200 daily reputation 50 times

Legendary

Earned 200 daily reputation 150 times

Precognitive

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

98 awarded

Beta

Actively participated in the private beta

152 awarded

Quorum

One post with score of 2 on meta

228 awarded

Convention

10 posts with score of 2 on meta

18 awarded

Talkative

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

19 awarded

Outspoken

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

1 awarded

Yearling

Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation

1.4k 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.

23 awarded

Silver Badge

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

3 awarded

Gold Badge

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

Moderation Badges

Citizen Patrol

First flagged post

825 awarded

Deputy

Raised 80 helpful flags

26 awarded

Marshal

Raised 500 helpful flags

7 awarded

Civic Duty

Voted 300 or more times

37 awarded

Cleanup

First rollback

50 awarded

Constable

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

3 awarded

Sheriff

Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year

4 awarded

Critic

First down vote

752 awarded

Custodian

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

327 awarded

Reviewer

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

33 awarded

Steward

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

5 awarded

Disciplined

Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher

19 awarded

Editor

First edit

2.8k awarded

Strunk & White

Edited 80 posts

18 awarded

Copy Editor

Edited 500 posts

4 awarded

Electorate

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

17 awarded

Excavator

Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months

221 awarded

Archaeologist

Edited 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months

4 awarded

Organizer

First retag

245 awarded

Peer Pressure

Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower

57 awarded

Proofreader

Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits

8 awarded

Sportsmanship

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

Suffrage

Used 30 votes in a day

95 awarded

Supporter

First up vote

9.5k awarded

Synonymizer

First approved tag synonym

7 awarded

Tag Editor

First tag wiki edit

77 awarded

Research Assistant

Edited 50 tag wikis

2 awarded

Taxonomist

Created a tag used by 50 questions

58 awarded

Vox Populi

Used the maximum 40 votes in a day

44 awarded

Other Badges

Analytical

Visited every section of the FAQ (retired)

309 awarded

Announcer

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

176 awarded

Booster

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

18 awarded

Publicist

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

13 awarded

Informed

Read the entire about page

540 awarded

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