Literature Beta

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
11 awarded
 Benefactor
First bounty you manually award on your own question
23 awarded
 Curious
Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
79 awarded
 Inquisitive
Ask a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
10 awarded
 Socratic
Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record
8 awarded
 Favorite Question
Question bookmarked by 25 users
 Stellar Question
Question bookmarked by 100 users
 Investor
First bounty you offer on another person's question
18 awarded
 Nice Question
Question score of 10 or more
629 awarded
 Good Question
Question score of 25 or more
58 awarded
 Great Question
Question score of 100 or more
1 awarded
 Popular Question
Question with 1,000 views
740 awarded
 Notable Question
Question with 2,500 views
338 awarded
 Famous Question
Question with 10,000 views
78 awarded
 Promoter
First bounty you offer on your own question
58 awarded
 Scholar
Ask a question and accept an answer
746 awarded
 Student
First question with score of 1 or more
1.6k awarded

Answer Badges

 Enlightened
First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more
288 awarded
 Explainer
Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
44 awarded
 Refiner
Edit and answer 50 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
3 awarded
 Illuminator
Edit and answer 500 questions (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
 Generalist
Provide non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
 Guru
Accepted answer and score of 40 or more
18 awarded
 Lifejacket
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 awarded
 Lifeboat
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
 Nice Answer
Answer score of 10 or more
616 awarded
 Good Answer
Answer score of 25 or more
97 awarded
 Great Answer
Answer score of 100 or more
2 awarded
 Populist
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x
1 awarded
 Revival
Answer more than 30 days after a question was asked as first answer scoring 2 or more
444 awarded
 Necromancer
Answer a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more
152 awarded
 Self-Learner
Answer your own question with score of 3 or more
80 awarded
 Teacher
Answer a question with score of 1 or more
813 awarded
 Tenacious
Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total
 Unsung Hero
Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total

Participation Badges

 Autobiographer
Complete "About Me" section of user profile
2.9k awarded
 Caucus
Visit an election during any phase of an active election and have enough reputation to cast a vote
174 awarded
 Constituent
Vote for a candidate in the final phase of an election
106 awarded
 Commentator
Leave 10 comments
165 awarded
 Pundit
Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more
3 awarded
 Enthusiast
Visit the site each day for 30 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
92 awarded
 Fanatic
Visit the site each day for 100 consecutive days. (Days are counted in UTC.)
42 awarded
 Mortarboard
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day
48 awarded
 Epic
Earn 200 daily reputation 50 times
 Legendary
Earn 200 daily reputation 150 times
 Precognitive
Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase
97 awarded
 Beta
Voted 10 times, added 3 posts score > 0, and visited the site on 3 separate days during the private beta
44 awarded
 Quorum
One post with score of 2 on meta
115 awarded
 Convention
10 posts with score of 2 on meta
20 awarded
 Talkative
Post 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat
78 awarded
 Outspoken
Post 10 messages in chat starred by 10 different users
24 awarded
 Yearling
Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation
762 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.
26 awarded
 Silver Badge
You must have a total score of 400 in at least 80 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.
3 awarded
 Gold Badge
You must have a total score of 1000 in at least 200 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.

Moderation Badges

 Citizen Patrol
First flagged post
202 awarded
 Deputy
Raise 80 helpful flags
4 awarded
 Marshal
Raise 500 helpful flags
1 awarded
 Civic Duty
Vote 300 or more times
45 awarded
 Cleanup
First rollback
31 awarded
 Constable
Served as a pro-tem moderator for at least 1 year or through site graduation
5 awarded
 Sheriff
Served as an elected moderator for at least 1 year
 Critic
First down vote
207 awarded
 Custodian
Complete at least one review task. This badge is awarded once per review type
423 awarded
 Reviewer
Complete at least 250 review tasks. This badge is awarded once per review type
9 awarded
 Steward
Complete at least 1,000 review tasks. This badge is awarded multiple times per review type
1 awarded
 Disciplined
Delete own post with score of 3 or higher
14 awarded
 Editor
First edit
981 awarded
 Strunk & White
Edit 80 posts
12 awarded
 Copy Editor
Edit 500 posts (excluding own or deleted posts and tag edits)
3 awarded
 Electorate
Vote on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions
10 awarded
 Excavator
Edit first post that was inactive for 6 months
43 awarded
 Archaeologist
Edit 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months
1 awarded
 Organizer
First retag
86 awarded
 Peer Pressure
Delete own post with score of -3 or lower
41 awarded
 Proofreader
Approve or reject 100 suggested edits
9 awarded
 Sportsmanship
Up vote 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a positive score
1 awarded
 Suffrage
Use 30 votes in a day
42 awarded
 Supporter
First up vote
2.3k awarded
 Synonymizer
First approved tag synonym
5 awarded
 Tag Editor
First tag wiki edit
70 awarded
 Research Assistant
Edit 50 tag wikis
4 awarded
 Taxonomist
Create a tag used by 50 questions
16 awarded
 Vox Populi
Use the maximum 40 votes in a day
37 awarded

Other Badges

 Announcer
Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses
28 awarded
 Booster
Share a link to a post later visited by 300 unique IP addresses
2 awarded
 Publicist
Share a link to a post later visited by 1000 unique IP addresses
2 awarded
 Informed
Read the entire tour page
786 awarded

Retired Badges

 Analytical
Visited every section of the FAQ
 Reversal
Provide an answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score
 Tumbleweed
Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week
43 awarded

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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