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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
 Benefactor
First bounty you manually award on your own question
 Curious
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
155 awarded
 Investor
First bounty you offer on another person's question
 Nice Question
Question score of 10 or more
989 awarded
 Popular Question
Question with 1,000 views
90 awarded
 Promoter
First bounty you offer on your own question
 Scholar
Ask a question and accept an answer
883 awarded
 Student
First question with score of 1 or more
1.3k awarded

Answer Badges

 Explainer
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
55 awarded
 Nice Answer
Answer score of 10 or more
1.5k awarded
 Revival
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
86 awarded
 Self-Learner
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
94 awarded
 Teacher
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
808 awarded

Participation Badges

 Autobiographer
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
20.7k awarded
 Commentator
Leave 10 comments
322 awarded
 Mortarboard
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
10 awarded
 Precognitive
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
 Talkative
Post 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat

Tag Badges

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

Moderation Badges

 Citizen Patrol
First flagged post
232 awarded
 Cleanup
First rollback
45 awarded
 Critic
First down vote
742 awarded
 Custodian
Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
179 awarded
 Disciplined
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
26 awarded
 Editor
First edit
731 awarded
 Excavator
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
63 awarded
 Organizer
First retag
115 awarded
 Peer Pressure
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
46 awarded
 Proofreader
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
 Suffrage
Use 30 votes in a day
39 awarded
 Supporter
First up vote
4.7k awarded
 Synonymizer
First approved tag synonym
3 awarded
 Tag Editor
First tag wiki edit
26 awarded
 Vox Populi
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
27 awarded

Other Badges

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

Retired Badges

 Analytical
Visited every section of the FAQ
155 awarded
 Tumbleweed
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
15 awarded

Bronze badges encourage users to try out new features on the site. They are easy to get if you try!

Silver badges are less common than bronze ones. You'll need to plan your strategy to get one of these.

Gold badges recognize important contributions from members of the community. They are rarely awarded.