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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

 Socratic
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
1 awarded
 Stellar Question
Question favorited by 100 users
 Great Question
Question score of 100 or more
1 awarded
 Famous Question
Question with 10,000 views
4 awarded

Answer Badges

 Illuminator
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
 Lifeboat
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
 Great Answer
Answer score of 100 or more
 Populist
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
 Unsung Hero
Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total

Participation Badges

 Fanatic
Visit the site each day for 100 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
57 awarded
 Legendary
Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times

Tag Badges

 Gold Badge
You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
3 awarded

Moderation Badges

 Marshal
Raise 500 helpful flags
 Constable
Served as a pro-tem moderator for at least 1 year or through site graduation
 Sheriff
Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year
 Steward
Complete at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
 Copy Editor
Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits)
 Electorate
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
8 awarded

Other Badges

 Publicist
Share a link to a question later visited by 1000 unique IP addresses

Retired Badges

 Reversal
Provide an answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score
8 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.