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all earned unearned gold silver bronze

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

1 awarded

Benefactor

First bounty you manually awarded on your own question

6 awarded

Investor

First bounty you offered on another person's question

1 awarded

Nice Question

Question score of 10 or more

101 awarded

Answer Badges

Nice Answer

Answer score of 10 or more

164 awarded

Revival

Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more

5 awarded

Self-Learner

Answered your own question with score of 3 or more

4 awarded

Teacher

Answered first question with score of 1 or more

406 awarded

Participation Badges

Autobiographer

Completed all user profile fields

495 awarded

Caucus

Visited an election during any phase of an active election and had enough reputation to cast a vote

Commentator

Left 10 comments

93 awarded

Precognitive

Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase

45 awarded

Quorum

One post with score of 2 on meta

51 awarded

Talkative

Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat

6 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 (retired)

68 awarded

Citizen Patrol

First flagged post

49 awarded

Cleanup

First rollback

9 awarded

Critic

First down vote

109 awarded

Custodian

Completed at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type

103 awarded

Disciplined

Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher

3 awarded

Editor

First edit

247 awarded

Excavator

Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months

14 awarded

Informed

Read the entire about page

29 awarded

Organizer

First retag

37 awarded

Peer Pressure

Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower

2 awarded

Proofreader

Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits

Suffrage

Used 30 votes in a day

16 awarded

Supporter

First up vote

531 awarded

Synonymizer

First approved tag synonym

4 awarded

Tag Editor

First Tag Wiki Edit

10 awarded

Vox Populi

Used the maximum 40 votes in a day

9 awarded

Other Badges

Announcer

Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses

1 awarded

Mortarboard

Earned at least 200 reputation in a single day

11 awarded

Bronze Badge

Bronze badges encourage users to try out new features on the site. They are easy to get if you try!

Silver Badge

Silver badges are less common than bronze ones. You’ll need to plan your strategy to get one of these.

Gold Badge

Gold badges recognize important contributions from members of the community. They are rarely awarded.