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
First bounty you manually award on another person's question
10.3k awarded
First bounty you manually award on your own question
49.9k awarded
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
370.4k awarded
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
37.1k awarded
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
4.8k awarded
Question bookmarked by 25 users
60.8k awarded
Question bookmarked by 100 users
9.1k awarded
First bounty you offer on another person's question
21.3k awarded
Question score of 10 or more
706.5k awarded
Question score of 25 or more
243.7k awarded
Question score of 100 or more
45.6k awarded
Question with 1,000 views
5.8m awarded
Question with 2,500 views
2.9m awarded
Question with 10,000 views
832.1k awarded
First bounty you offer on your own question
91.5k awarded
Ask a question and accept an answer
2.2m awarded
First question with score of 1 or more
2.7m awarded
Answer Badges
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
457.5k awarded
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
72.8k awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
2.4k awarded
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
148 awarded
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
1.1k awarded
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
159.9k awarded
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
12.4k awarded
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
1.2k awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
1.5m awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
514.7k awarded
Answer score of 100 or more
96.9k awarded
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
25.1k awarded
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
489.1k awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
752.6k awarded
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
176.8k awarded
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
1.7m awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
62.7k awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total
25.2k awarded
Participation Badges
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
1.6m awarded
Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote
748k awarded
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
247.7k awarded
Leave 10 comments
1.1m awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
12.2k awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
278.7k awarded
Visit the site each day for 100 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
39.1k awarded
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
41k awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
746 awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times
299 awarded
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
2.5k awarded
Post 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat
11.5k awarded
Post 10 messages in chat starred by 10 different users
1.4k awarded
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
2.6m awarded
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
166.4k awarded
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
33.3k awarded
You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
10.5k awarded
Moderation Badges
First flagged post
235.1k awarded
Raise 80 helpful flags
13.7k awarded
Raise 500 helpful flags
3.3k awarded
Vote 300 or more times
113.6k awarded
First rollback
60.2k awarded
Served as a pro-tem moderator for at least 1 year or through site graduation
Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year
73 awarded
First down vote
471.2k awarded
Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
1.1m awarded
Complete at least 250 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
43.6k awarded
Complete at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded multiple times per review type
21.2k awarded
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
14k awarded
Edit 80 posts
19k awarded
Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits)
3.7k awarded
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
25k awarded
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
162.4k awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
2.6k awarded
First retag
140.5k awarded
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
283.6k awarded
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
20k awarded
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
3.1k awarded
Use 30 votes in a day
57k awarded
First up vote
1.7m awarded
First tag wiki edit
25.6k awarded
Edit 50 tag wikis
328 awarded
Create a tag used by 50 questions
14.3k awarded
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
38.3k awarded
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
237.8k awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
34.3k awarded
Share a link to a post later visited by 1000 unique IP addresses
9.4k awarded
Completed the annual Stack Overflow survey; your responses are anonymous
209.7k awarded
Read the entire tour page
2.6m awarded
Retired Badges
Visited every section of the FAQ
43.6k awarded
Contributed 3+ substantive pieces of documentation during the private beta
293 awarded
Contributed 3+ substantive pieces of documentation in the first month of documentation
2.3k awarded
Provide an answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score
302 awarded
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
1.2m awarded