Help Center > 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

 Altruist
First bounty you manually awarded on another person's question
8 awarded
 Benefactor
First bounty you manually awarded on your own question
15 awarded
 Investor
First bounty you offered on another person's question
12 awarded
 Nice Question
Question score of 10 or more
407 awarded
 Popular Question
Asked a question with 1,000 views
81 awarded
 Promoter
First bounty you offered on your own question
32 awarded
 Scholar
Asked a question and accepted an answer
361 awarded
 Student
Asked first question with score of 1 or more
602 awarded
 Tumbleweed
Asked a question with no votes, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
3 awarded

Answer Badges

 Nice Answer
Answer score of 10 or more
364 awarded
 Revival
Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more
99 awarded
 Self-Learner
Answered your own question with score of 3 or more
21 awarded
 Teacher
Answered first question with score of 1 or more
458 awarded

Participation Badges

 Autobiographer
Completed all user profile fields
693 awarded
 Caucus
Visited an election during any phase of an active election and had enough reputation to cast a vote
 Commentator
Left 10 comments
163 awarded
 Precognitive
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
30 awarded
 Quorum
One post with score of 2 on meta
100 awarded
 Talkative
Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat
8 awarded

Tag Badges

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

Moderation Badges

 Analytical
Visited every section of the FAQ
70 awarded
 Citizen Patrol
First flagged post
124 awarded
 Cleanup
First rollback
20 awarded
 Critic
First down vote
202 awarded
 Custodian
Completed at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
191 awarded
 Disciplined
Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher
10 awarded
 Editor
First edit
406 awarded
 Excavator
Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months
28 awarded
 Informed
Read the entire about page
50 awarded
 Organizer
First retag
75 awarded
 Peer Pressure
Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower
10 awarded
 Proofreader
Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits
4 awarded
 Suffrage
Used 30 votes in a day
29 awarded
 Supporter
First up vote
866 awarded
 Synonymizer
First approved tag synonym
7 awarded
 Tag Editor
First Tag Wiki Edit
32 awarded
 Vox Populi
Used the maximum 40 votes in a day
21 awarded

Other Badges

 Announcer
Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses
6 awarded
 Mortarboard
Earned at least 200 reputation in a single day
13 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.