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
12
awarded
Question saved by 25 users
58
awarded
Question score of 25 or more
374
awarded
Question with 2,500 views
9.8k
awarded
Answer Badges
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
829
awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
10
awarded
Answer saved by 25 users
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
29
awarded
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
119
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
15
awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
545
awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
790
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
22
awarded
Participation Badges
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
806
awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
31
awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
369
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
1
awarded
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
37
awarded
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
35
awarded
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
5.4k
awarded
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
58
awarded
Moderation Badges
Raise 80 helpful flags
147
awarded
Vote 300 or more times
111
awarded
Edit 80 posts
39
awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
8
awarded
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
19
awarded
Edit 50 tag wikis
4
awarded
Create a tag used by 50 questions
100
awarded
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
51
awarded
Retired Badges
Completed the annual Stack Overflow survey; your responses are anonymous