Privileges control what you can do on Stack Overflow. Gain more privileges by increasing your reputation (points you receive from your fellow users for posting helpful questions and answers).
25,000
Access to internal and Google site analytics
20,000
Expanded editing, deletion and undeletion privileges
15,000
Mark questions as protected
10,000
access to moderator tools
Access reports, delete questions, review reviews
5,000
Approve edits to tag wikis made by regular users
3,000
cast close and reopen votes
Help decide whether posts are off-topic or duplicates
2,500
Decide which tags have the same meaning as others
2,000
edit questions and answers
Edits to any question or answer are applied immediately
1,500
Add new tags to the site
1,000
You've been around for a while; see vote counts
1,000
create gallery chat rooms
Create chat rooms where only specific users may talk
500
Access first posts and late answers review queues
250
View and cast close/reopen votes on your own questions
200
Some ads are now automatically disabled
125
Indicate when questions and answers are not useful
100
Collaborate on the editing and improvement of wiki posts
100
Create new chat rooms
75
Offer some of your reputation as bounty on a question
50
Leave comments on other people's posts
20
Participate in this site's chat rooms
15
Bring content to the attention of the community via flags
15
Indicate when questions and answers are useful
10
remove new user restrictions
Post more links, answer protected questions
10
Create answers that can be easily edited by most users
5
Discuss the site itself: bugs, feedback, and governance
1
Ask a question or contribute an answer