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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
437 awarded
 Benefactor
First bounty you manually award on your own question
386 awarded
 Curious
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
1.7k awarded
 Inquisitive
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
237 awarded
 Socratic
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
39 awarded
 Favorite Question
Question bookmarked by 25 users
483 awarded
 Stellar Question
Question bookmarked by 100 users
75 awarded
 Investor
First bounty you offer on another person's question
773 awarded
 Nice Question
Question score of 10 or more
21.3k awarded
 Good Question
Question score of 25 or more
6.3k awarded
 Great Question
Question score of 100 or more
888 awarded
 Popular Question
Question with 1,000 views
4.9k awarded
 Notable Question
Question with 2,500 views
2k awarded
 Famous Question
Question with 10,000 views
547 awarded
 Promoter
First bounty you offer on your own question
796 awarded
 Scholar
Ask a question and accept an answer
15.3k awarded
 Student
First question with score of 1 or more
23.6k awarded

Answer Badges

 Enlightened
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
8.1k awarded
 Explainer
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
549 awarded
 Refiner
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
16 awarded
 Illuminator
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
1 awarded
 Generalist
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
177 awarded
 Guru
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
956 awarded
 Lifejacket
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
653 awarded
 Lifeboat
Answer score of 20 or more to a question score of -3 or less that goes on to receive a score of 3 or more
94 awarded
 Nice Answer
Answer score of 10 or more
33.8k awarded
 Good Answer
Answer score of 25 or more
8.4k awarded
 Great Answer
Answer score of 100 or more
1.1k awarded
 Populist
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
277 awarded
 Revival
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
3.7k awarded
 Necromancer
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
5.5k awarded
 Self-Learner
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
974 awarded
 Teacher
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
11.5k 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
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
195.7k awarded
 Commentator
Leave 10 comments
7.2k awarded
 Pundit
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
954 awarded
 Enthusiast
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
2.3k awarded
 Fanatic
Visit the site each day for 100 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
810 awarded
 Mortarboard
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
2k awarded
 Epic
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
53 awarded
 Legendary
Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times
16 awarded
 Precognitive
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
 Talkative
Post 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat
1.4k awarded
 Outspoken
Post 10 messages in chat starred by 10 different users
443 awarded
 Yearling
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
30.5k 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.
2.2k awarded
 Silver Badge
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
409 awarded
 Gold Badge
You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
128 awarded

Moderation Badges

 Citizen Patrol
First flagged post
5.9k awarded
 Deputy
Raise 80 helpful flags
381 awarded
 Marshal
Raise 500 helpful flags
81 awarded
 Civic Duty
Vote 300 or more times
1.5k awarded
 Cleanup
First rollback
1.2k awarded
 Constable
Served as a pro-tem moderator for at least 1 year or through site graduation
5 awarded
 Sheriff
Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year
53 awarded
 Critic
First down vote
15.1k awarded
 Custodian
Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
3.1k awarded
 Reviewer
Complete at least 250 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
129 awarded
 Steward
Complete at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded multiple times per review type
60 awarded
 Disciplined
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
488 awarded
 Editor
First edit
16.8k awarded
 Strunk & White
Edit 80 posts
172 awarded
 Copy Editor
Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits)
30 awarded
 Electorate
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
473 awarded
 Excavator
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
1.6k awarded
 Archaeologist
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
22 awarded
 Organizer
First retag
1.4k awarded
 Peer Pressure
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
5.9k awarded
 Proofreader
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
75 awarded
 Sportsmanship
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
138 awarded
 Suffrage
Use 30 votes in a day
1.3k awarded
 Supporter
First up vote
64.5k awarded
 Synonymizer
First approved tag synonym
48 awarded
 Tag Editor
First tag wiki edit
357 awarded
 Research Assistant
Edit 50 tag wikis
11 awarded
 Taxonomist
Create a tag used by 50 questions
215 awarded
 Vox Populi
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
650 awarded

Other Badges

 Announcer
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
1.8k awarded
 Booster
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
181 awarded
 Publicist
Share a link to a post later visited by 1000 unique IP addresses
50 awarded
 Informed
Read the entire tour page
34.3k awarded

Retired Badges

 Analytical
Visited every section of the FAQ
1.4k awarded
 Reversal
Provide an answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score
1.1k awarded
 Tumbleweed
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
598 awarded

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.


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