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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.

All Earned Unearned Gold Silver Bronze

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
164 awarded
 Investor
First bounty you offer on another person's question
 Nice Question
Question score of 10 or more
1k awarded
 Popular Question
Question with 1,000 views
103 awarded
 Promoter
First bounty you offer on your own question
 Scholar
Ask a question and accept an answer
914 awarded
 Student
First question with score of 1 or more
1.4k awarded

Answer Badges

 Explainer
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
56 awarded
 Nice Answer
Answer score of 10 or more
1.6k awarded
 Revival
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
92 awarded
 Self-Learner
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
95 awarded
 Teacher
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
854 awarded

Participation Badges

 Autobiographer
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
22.9k awarded
 Commentator
Leave 10 comments
335 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.
40 awarded

Moderation Badges

 Citizen Patrol
First flagged post
241 awarded
 Cleanup
First rollback
46 awarded
 Critic
First down vote
771 awarded
 Custodian
Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
184 awarded
 Disciplined
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
29 awarded
 Editor
First edit
782 awarded
 Excavator
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
64 awarded
 Organizer
First retag
117 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
40 awarded
 Supporter
First up vote
5k awarded
 Synonymizer
First approved tag synonym
5 awarded
 Tag Editor
First tag wiki edit
28 awarded
 Vox Populi
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
27 awarded

Other Badges

 Announcer
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
46 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.