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
4
awarded
Question saved by 25 users
3
awarded
Question score of 25 or more
31
awarded
Question with 2,500 views
386
awarded
Answer Badges
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
136
awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
Answer saved by 25 users
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
9
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
1
awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
46
awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
36
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
1
awarded
Participation Badges
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
1
awarded
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
1
awarded
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
115
awarded
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
22
awarded
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
7
awarded
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
817
awarded
Tag Badges
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
1
awarded
Moderation Badges
Raise 80 helpful flags
1
awarded
Vote 300 or more times
20
awarded
Edit 80 posts
1
awarded
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
Edit 50 tag wikis
Create a tag used by 50 questions
30
awarded
Other Badges
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
7
awarded
Retired Badges
Completed the annual Stack Overflow survey; your responses are anonymous