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
First bounty you manually award on another person's question
First bounty you manually award on your own question
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
31
awarded
First bounty you offer on another person's question
Question score of 10 or more
127
awarded
Question with 1,000 views
6
awarded
First bounty you offer on your own question
Ask a question and accept an answer
130
awarded
First question with score of 1 or more
231
awarded
Answer Badges
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
15
awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
118
awarded
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
13
awarded
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
29
awarded
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
175
awarded
Participation Badges
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
3.1k
awarded
Leave 10 comments
70
awarded
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
15
awarded
Moderation Badges
First flagged post
25
awarded
First rollback
6
awarded
First down vote
109
awarded
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
6
awarded
First edit
139
awarded
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
14
awarded
First retag
45
awarded
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
3
awarded
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
Use 30 votes in a day
2
awarded
First up vote
776
awarded
First approved tag synonym
3
awarded
First tag wiki edit
8
awarded
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
2
awarded
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
4
awarded
Retired Badges
Visited every section of the FAQ
15
awarded
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
5
awarded