As you use Stack Overflow to ask and answer questions, you’ll earn badges, which appear on your user page and in your user card.
| Altruist × 1607 | First bounty you manually awarded on another person's question | |
| Analytical × 19813 | Visited every section of the FAQ | |
| Announcer × 7983 | Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses | |
| Archaeologist × 187 | Edited 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months | |
| Autobiographer × 67150 | Completed all user profile fields | |
| Benefactor × 9838 | First bounty you manually awarded on your own question | |
| Beta × 2556 | Actively participated in the private beta | |
| Booster × 346 | Shared a link to a question that was visited by 300 unique IP addresses | |
| Citizen Patrol × 31472 | First flagged post | |
| Civic Duty × 13487 | Voted 300 or more times | |
| Cleanup × 8938 | First rollback | |
| Commentator × 135327 | Left 10 comments | |
| Convention × 848 | 10 posts with score of 2 on meta | |
| Copy Editor × 410 | Edited 500 posts | |
| Critic × 70506 | First down vote | |
| Deputy × 1359 | Raised 80 helpful flags | |
| Disciplined × 3509 | Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher | |
| Editor × 282816 | First edit | |
| Electorate × 1953 | Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions | |
| Enlightened × 44242 | First to answer and accepted with at least 10 upvotes | |
| Enthusiast × 27065 | Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days | |
| Epic × 240 | Earned 200 daily reputation 50 times | |
| Excavator × 15136 | Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months | |
| Famous Question × 22751 | Asked a question with 10,000 views | |
| Fanatic × 5021 | Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive days | |
| Favorite Question × 4831 | Question favorited by 25 users | |
| Generalist × 302 | Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags | |
| Good Answer × 31946 | Answer score of 25 or more | |
| Good Question × 13356 | Question score of 25 or more | |
| Great Answer × 3439 | Answer score of 100 or more | |
| Great Question × 1331 | Question score of 100 or more | |
| Guru × 7165 | Accepted answer and score of 40 or more | |
| Investor × 3282 | First bounty you offered on another person's question | |
| Legendary × 75 | Earned 200 daily reputation 150 times | |
| Marshal × 236 | Raised 500 helpful flags | |
| Mortarboard × 9709 | Earned at least 200 reputation in a single day | |
| Necromancer × 34352 | Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more | |
| Nice Answer × 163163 | Answer score of 10 or more | |
| Nice Question × 63440 | Question score of 10 or more | |
| Notable Question × 136892 | Asked a question with 2,500 views | |
| Organizer × 32305 | First retag | |
| Outspoken × 213 | Posted 10 messages in chat that were starred by 10 different users | |
| Peer Pressure × 9638 | Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower | |
| Popular Question × 375731 | Asked a question with 1,000 views | |
| Populist × 1564 | Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x | |
| Precognitive | Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase | |
| Promoter × 16580 | First bounty you offered on your own question | |
| Proofreader × 951 | Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits | |
| Publicist × 167 | Shared a link to a question that was visited by 1000 unique IP addresses | |
| Pundit × 1998 | Left 10 comments with score of 5 or more | |
| Quorum × 8860 | One post with score of 2 on meta | |
| Research Assistant × 25 | Edited 50 tag wikis | |
| Reversal × 102 | Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score | |
| Reviewer × 204 | 1000 reviews, over 200 actioned | |
| Revival × 36795 | Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more | |
| Scholar × 282336 | Asked a question and accepted an answer | |
| Self-Learner × 16775 | Answered your own question with score of 3 or more | |
| Sportsmanship × 927 | Up voted 100 competing answers | |
| Stellar Question × 603 | Question favorited by 100 users | |
| Strunk & White × 2405 | Edited 80 posts | |
| Student × 367764 | Asked first question with score of 1 or more | |
| Suffrage × 9865 | Used 30 votes in a day | |
| Supporter × 218476 | First up vote | |
| Synonymizer × 368 | First approved tag synonym | |
| Tag Editor × 5677 | First Tag Wiki Edit | |
| Talkative × 1619 | Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat | |
| Taxonomist × 4921 | Created a tag used by 50 questions | |
| Teacher × 254783 | Answered first question with score of 1 or more | |
| Tenacious × 8270 | Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total | |
| Tumbleweed × 146314 | Asked a question with no votes, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week | |
| Unsung Hero × 2648 | Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total | |
| Vox Populi × 3465 | Used the maximum 40 votes in a day | |
| Yearling × 123806 | Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation |
