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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
 Benefactor
First bounty you manually awarded on your own question
 Curious
Asked a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintained a positive question record
17 awarded
 Inquisitive
Asked a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintained a positive question record
 Socratic
Asked a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintained a positive question record
 Favorite Question
Question favorited by 25 users
 Stellar Question
Question favorited by 100 users
 Investor
First bounty you offered on another person's question
 Nice Question
Question score of 10 or more
62 awarded
 Good Question
Question score of 25 or more
5 awarded
 Great Question
Question score of 100 or more
 Popular Question
Asked a question with 1,000 views
9 awarded
 Notable Question
Asked a question with 2,500 views
1 awarded
 Famous Question
Asked a question with 10,000 views
 Promoter
First bounty you offered on your own question
 Scholar
Asked a question and accepted an answer
127 awarded
 Student
Asked first question with score of 1 or more
192 awarded
 Tumbleweed
Asked a question with no votes, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
4 awarded

Answer Badges

 Enlightened
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
5 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
1 awarded
 Nice Answer
Answer score of 10 or more
106 awarded
 Good Answer
Answer score of 25 or more
5 awarded
 Great Answer
Answer score of 100 or more
 Populist
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
 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
11 awarded
 Necromancer
Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
18 awarded
 Self-Learner
Answered your own question with score of 3 or more
20 awarded
 Teacher
Answered first question with score of 1 or more
217 awarded
 Tenacious
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
 Unsung Hero
Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total

Participation Badges

 Autobiographer
Completed all user profile fields
1.5k awarded
 Commentator
Left 10 comments
59 awarded
 Pundit
Left 10 comments with score of 5 or more
 Enthusiast
Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
11 awarded
 Fanatic
Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
2 awarded
 Mortarboard
Earned at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
 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
 Beta
Actively participated in the private beta
 Talkative
Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat
 Outspoken
Posted 10 messages in chat that were starred by 10 different users
 Yearling
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
2.2k 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.
5 awarded
 Silver Badge
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
 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
17 awarded
 Deputy
Raised 80 helpful flags
 Marshal
Raised 500 helpful flags
 Civic Duty
Voted 300 or more times
4 awarded
 Cleanup
First rollback
3 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
 Critic
First down vote
157 awarded
 Custodian
Completed at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
16 awarded
 Reviewer
Completed at least 250 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
 Steward
Completed at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
 Disciplined
Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher
10 awarded
 Editor
First edit
128 awarded
 Strunk & White
Edited 80 posts
 Copy Editor
Edited 500 posts
 Electorate
Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
 Excavator
Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months
3 awarded
 Archaeologist
Edited 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
 Organizer
First retag
28 awarded
 Peer Pressure
Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower
5 awarded
 Proofreader
Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits
 Sportsmanship
Up voted 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
 Suffrage
Used 30 votes in a day
12 awarded
 Supporter
First up vote
798 awarded
 Synonymizer
First approved tag synonym
 Tag Editor
First tag wiki edit
4 awarded
 Research Assistant
Edited 50 tag wikis
 Taxonomist
Created a tag used by 50 questions
 Vox Populi
Used the maximum 40 votes in a day
3 awarded

Other Badges

 Analytical
Visited every section of the FAQ (retired)
37 awarded
 Announcer
Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses
 Booster
Shared a link to a question that was visited by 300 unique IP addresses
 Publicist
Shared a link to a question that was visited by 1000 unique IP addresses

Bronze badges encourage users to try out new features on the site. They are easy to get if you try!

Silver badges are less common than bronze ones. You'll need to plan your strategy to get one of these.

Gold badges recognize important contributions from members of the community. They are rarely awarded.