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 awarded on another person's question
14 awarded
First bounty you manually awarded on your own question
39 awarded
Asked a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintained a positive question record
305 awarded
First bounty you offered on another person's question
16 awarded
Question score of 10 or more
454 awarded
Asked a question with 1,000 views
4.7k awarded
First bounty you offered on your own question
70 awarded
Asked a question and accepted an answer
3k awarded
Asked first question with score of 1 or more
6.3k awarded
Asked a question with no votes, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
226 awarded

Answer Badges

Edited and answered 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
72 awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
1.1k awarded
Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more
259 awarded
Answered your own question with score of 3 or more
102 awarded
Answered first question with score of 1 or more
2.8k awarded

Participation Badges

Completed "About Me" section of user profile
6.8k awarded
Visited an election during any phase of an active election and had enough reputation to cast a vote
369 awarded
Left 10 comments
640 awarded
Earned at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
32 awarded
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
87 awarded
One post with score of 2 on meta
135 awarded
Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat
40 awarded

Tag Badges

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

Moderation Badges

First flagged post
377 awarded
First rollback
28 awarded
First down vote
400 awarded
Completed at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
304 awarded
Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher
11 awarded
First edit
2.4k awarded
Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months
106 awarded
First retag
140 awarded
Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower
12 awarded
Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits
6 awarded
Used 30 votes in a day
63 awarded
First up vote
4.9k awarded
First approved tag synonym
7 awarded
First tag wiki edit
32 awarded
Used the maximum 40 votes in a day
28 awarded

Other Badges

Visited every section of the FAQ (retired)
138 awarded
Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses
220 awarded
Read the entire tour page
727 awarded
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