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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.

All Earned Unearned Gold Silver Bronze

Question Badges

 Altruist
First bounty you manually award on another person's question
 Benefactor
First bounty you manually award on your own question
 Curious
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
11 awarded
 Investor
First bounty you offer on another person's question
 Nice Question
Question score of 10 or more
43 awarded
 Popular Question
Question with 1,000 views
3 awarded
 Promoter
First bounty you offer on your own question
 Scholar
Ask a question and accept an answer
48 awarded
 Student
First question with score of 1 or more
81 awarded

Answer Badges

 Explainer
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
6 awarded
 Nice Answer
Answer score of 10 or more
53 awarded
 Revival
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
 Self-Learner
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
13 awarded
 Teacher
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
72 awarded

Participation Badges

 Autobiographer
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
847 awarded
 Caucus
Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote
 Commentator
Leave 10 comments
27 awarded
 Mortarboard
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
6 awarded
 Precognitive
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
 Talkative
Post 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat

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

 Citizen Patrol
First flagged post
12 awarded
 Cleanup
First rollback
6 awarded
 Critic
First down vote
72 awarded
 Custodian
Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
39 awarded
 Disciplined
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
3 awarded
 Editor
First edit
65 awarded
 Excavator
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
5 awarded
 Organizer
First retag
19 awarded
 Peer Pressure
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
7 awarded
 Proofreader
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
 Suffrage
Use 30 votes in a day
10 awarded
 Supporter
First up vote
277 awarded
 Synonymizer
First approved tag synonym
2 awarded
 Tag Editor
First tag wiki edit
12 awarded
 Vox Populi
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
6 awarded

Other Badges

 Announcer
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
4 awarded

Retired Badges

 Analytical
Visited every section of the FAQ
 Tumbleweed
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
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.

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