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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 award on another person's question

1 awarded

Benefactor

First bounty you manually award on your own question

3 awarded

Curious

Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record

15 awarded

Inquisitive

Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record

Socratic

Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record

Favorite Question

Question favorited by 25 users

Stellar Question

Question favorited by 100 users

Investor

First bounty you offer on another person's question

1 awarded

Nice Question

Question score of 10 or more

106 awarded

Good Question

Question score of 25 or more

7 awarded

Great Question

Question score of 100 or more

Answer Badges

Enlightened

First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more

28 awarded

Explainer

Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)

15 awarded

Refiner

Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)

Illuminator

Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)

Generalist

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

Guru

Accepted answer and score of 40 or more

Nice Answer

Answer score of 10 or more

66 awarded

Good Answer

Answer score of 25 or more

4 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

1 awarded

Reversal

Provide an answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score

Revival

Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more

Necromancer

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

Self-Learner

Answer your own question with score of 3 or more

11 awarded

Teacher

Answer a question with score of 1 or more

113 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

1.3k awarded

Caucus

Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote

Constituent

Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election

Commentator

Leave 10 comments

42 awarded

Pundit

Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more

Enthusiast

Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)

36 awarded

Fanatic

Visit the site each day for 100 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)

Mortarboard

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

2 awarded

Epic

Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times

Legendary

Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times

Precognitive

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

110 awarded

Beta

Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta

30 awarded

Quorum

One post with score of 2 on meta

41 awarded

Convention

10 posts with score of 2 on meta

5 awarded

Talkative

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

20 awarded

Outspoken

Post 10 messages in chat starred by 10 different users

Yearling

Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation

Tag Badges

Bronze Badge

You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.

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

47 awarded

Deputy

Raise 80 helpful flags

Marshal

Raise 500 helpful flags

Civic Duty

Vote 300 or more times

4 awarded

Cleanup

First rollback

11 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

96 awarded

Custodian

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

134 awarded

Reviewer

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

Steward

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

Disciplined

Delete own post with score of 3 or higher

4 awarded

Editor

First edit

140 awarded

Strunk & White

Edit 80 posts

1 awarded

Copy Editor

Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits)

Electorate

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

Excavator

Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months

Archaeologist

Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months

Organizer

First retag

18 awarded

Peer Pressure

Delete own post with score of -3 or lower

6 awarded

Proofreader

Approve or reject 100 suggested edits

2 awarded

Sportsmanship

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

Suffrage

Use 30 votes in a day

15 awarded

Supporter

First up vote

489 awarded

Synonymizer

First approved tag synonym

Tag Editor

First tag wiki edit

17 awarded

Research Assistant

Edit 50 tag wikis

Taxonomist

Create a tag used by 50 questions

3 awarded

Vox Populi

Use the maximum 40 votes in a day

12 awarded

Other Badges

Analytical

Visited every section of the FAQ (retired)

Announcer

Share a link to a question later visited by 25 unique IP addresses

1 awarded

Booster

Share a link to a question later visited by 300 unique IP addresses

Publicist

Share a link to a question later visited by 1000 unique IP addresses

Informed

Read the entire tour page

252 awarded

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