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
10.7k
awarded
First bounty you manually award on your own question
52.2k
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
390.6k
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
39.2k
awarded
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
5.2k
awarded
Question bookmarked by 25 users
65.4k
awarded
Question bookmarked by 100 users
9.8k
awarded
First bounty you offer on another person's question
22.5k
awarded
Question score of 10 or more
761k
awarded
Question score of 25 or more
265k
awarded
Question score of 100 or more
50.7k
awarded
Question with 1,000 views
6.5m
awarded
Question with 2,500 views
3.2m
awarded
Question with 10,000 views
932.6k
awarded
First bounty you offer on your own question
96.8k
awarded
Ask a question and accept an answer
2.4m
awarded
First question with score of 1 or more
2.9m
awarded
Answer Badges
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
489.6k
awarded
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
75.1k
awarded
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
2.5k
awarded
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
160
awarded
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
1.1k
awarded
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
171.7k
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
13.8k
awarded
Answer score of 20 or more to a question score of -3 or less that goes on to receive a score of 3 or more
1.4k
awarded
Answer score of 10 or more
1.6m
awarded
Answer score of 25 or more
560.2k
awarded
Answer score of 100 or more
106.7k
awarded
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
27.3k
awarded
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
535.1k
awarded
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
840.1k
awarded
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
192k
awarded
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
1.9m
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
65.6k
awarded
Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total
26.5k
awarded
