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
First bounty you manually award on another person's question
First bounty you manually award on your own question
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
3
awarded
First bounty you offer on another person's question
Question score of 10 or more
9
awarded
Question with 1,000 views
2
awarded
First bounty you offer on your own question
Ask a question and accept an answer
30
awarded
First question with score of 1 or more
67
awarded
Answer Badges
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
3
awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
9
awarded
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
2
awarded
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
6
awarded
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
48
awarded
Participation Badges
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
738
awarded
Leave 10 comments
13
awarded
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
Moderation Badges
First flagged post
9
awarded
First rollback
First down vote
29
awarded
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
First edit
33
awarded
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
1
awarded
First retag
12
awarded
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
1
awarded
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
Use 30 votes in a day
First up vote
196
awarded
First approved tag synonym
1
awarded
First tag wiki edit
2
awarded
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
2
awarded
Retired Badges
Visited every section of the FAQ
11
awarded
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
8
awarded