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.
Question Badges
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
250
awarded
Question saved by 25 users
2.2k
awarded
Question score of 25 or more
7.7k
awarded
Question with 2,500 views
112k
awarded
Answer Badges
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
10.5k
awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
67
awarded
Answer saved by 25 users
20
awarded
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
107
awarded
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
3.4k
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
127
awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
12.9k
awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
21.3k
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
401
awarded
Participation Badges
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
5.8k
awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
194
awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
2.5k
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
13
awarded
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
83
awarded
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
151
awarded
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
76.8k
awarded
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
217
awarded
Moderation Badges
Raise 80 helpful flags
646
awarded
Vote 300 or more times
1.4k
awarded
Edit 80 posts
436
awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
81
awarded
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
57
awarded
Edit 50 tag wikis
16
awarded
Create a tag used by 50 questions
566
awarded
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
1.6k
awarded
Retired Badges
Completed the annual Stack Overflow survey; your responses are anonymous
389
awarded