Quote from wiki     Bronze Badge - You must have a total score of 100 in at least 20 non-community wiki answers to achieve this badge.    Question  Does this mean you have to have a total score of 100 at each of these questions or is it about the score alltogether?  Quote from wiki     Popular Question - Asked a question with 1,000 views. This badge can be awarded multiple times.   Question  Does this mean that you receive this badge for every 1000 views on a question or for every question that has a 1000 views or more?
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Formerly List of all badges with full descriptions.  What are badge name's requirements? Why didn't I get badge name ? Which badges can I earn multiple times?    Jump to:                    Note: Some badges are awarded based on score. The term score means the total number of upvotes minus the total number of downvotes.  Any badge with a *** next to it is one of 20 badges that count towards the  displayed on a moderator candidate in an election. The candidate score is a total of 40 points: the first 20 are awarded based on the user's rep divided by 1000 and rounded down; the second 20 represents the total number of unique badges earned of the 20 that count. Note that if the same badge is earned multiple times, it will only count once towards the candidate score.  Any badge with a &quot;(retired)&quot; next to it is no longer awarded, but is retained by users who previously earned them. See  for more info on what it means for a badge to be retired.       Visit the  of the  on any site to see a complete list of badges that you can filter by earned, unearned, or type.
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The  on the StackOverflow blog says that badges are there &quot;to encourage positive behavior&quot;. So, why not giving each user some reputation points for each badge? Maybe with differences: a &quot;woot&quot; badge would mean 100 points, while a &quot;scholar&quot; badge would give 10 points to the user. -- Edit: someone pointed out that you already gain some reputation implicitly when you get a Badge. That's false for 90% of badges: Woot -&gt; no rep earned Autobiographer -&gt; no rep earned Beta -&gt; no rep earned Citizen Patrol -&gt; no rep earned Civic Duty -&gt; no rep earned Cleanup -&gt; no rep earned Commentator -&gt; no rep earned Critic -&gt; no rep earned Disciplined -&gt; no rep earned Editor -&gt; no rep earned Fanatic -&gt; no rep earned ...
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Someone's asked  the answer being that it's intended to help people learn about the site's functionality. Answering your own question  and there's a feature to .   The number of unanswered questions, on Stack Overflow at least, , so why not encourage people to fill in the blanks by answering their own questions more regularly?  I'm of two minds about the route to go down. I initially though of something like a silver self-learner badge with some conditions as follows: answer your own +3 scored question with an answer with a score of +5 but as there are only  open, unanswered questions with a score of 3 or more it seems fairly pointless.  A better way would be to allow people to earn a "self-learner" type badge multiple times but to stop people from getting it solely for self-answering. You could have a bronze badge (, or whatever) for people who:   Self-answer a positively scored question - This should not be open to negatively scored questions and I'd be wary of 0 scored to stop a deluge of people wanting the badge. That has not received an answer with a score of more than 1 since it was posted - Not completely sure about this but the goal is to answer the questions without answers More than 24 hours after the question was posted - Otherwise FGITW etc; the point is to get all the old questions answered. With a score of 2 or more - Otherwise you could answer it with anything, which is useless for the internet. Maybe +3 might be more appropriate?   There are  positively scored, unclosed questions with 0 answers so getting some of these answered is a worthy cause.
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Bronze/Silver/Gold badges awarded for having 10/50/200 questions which have not had any edits.  Includes questions at least a week old that are still open.  Encourages people to review their questions before submitting (some people like to submit, then review, but by the time they've submitted the edited version it's halfway down the main page and gets a bump, even within the 5 minute edit window).
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I was just awarded +100 reputation on all of my Stack Exchange accounts.  What is this bonus for? It simply says "Association Bonus" on my reputation overview.  Also:   What privileges does the association bonus grant users? Can I lose the association bonus? Does it make my reputation 101 everywhere? Can I earn the association bonus on sites I haven't joined yet? Does it matter which site I earn the 200 reputation on? Will I get an association bonus every time my reputation on a site crosses 200 points? Does the association bonus allow me to answer protected questions? Does the association bonus count towards the reputation cap? Can I get the association bonus if I only have a profile on one site? What else is there to know about the association bonus?
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I very recently earned the below badge. But I am sorry, I do not understand it.    It says      Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 answers in the java tag.   But I have answered 140 questions under Java tag and pretty sure would have earned more than 100 points. Then why did I receive it so late. Currently I have 3.3K points on SO.  Secondly if so, I have answered about 41 questions under Scala tag, then why didn't I receive this badge for Scala?
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The description of the new  badge currently reads:     Asked a good question on 5 separate days, and maintains a positive question record.   The term "good question" seems to be defined by the badge :     Question score of 25 or more.   Curious seems to use another criterion, though, as witnessed by  (no Good Question but Curious).  Please clarify the description.
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There is a badge named Electorate which is going to be awarded on "Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions". Can somebody explain this to me?  Voted on 600 Question and 25% are on Question? is this  means   Voted on 600 Posts and 25% are on Question  Can't SO place some easy text or Definitions for average users?
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Some hours ago I was awarded the Good Question badge on Meta Stack Overflow:   It's a silver badge, but I didn't receive the      earn a silver badge     Seems a bug, or is it because meta badges are ignored for hats?
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"Voted on 600 questions and has better than 3:1 answer/question vote ratio" is the current text.  "Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions" is my proposed text.  (Or should it read "or less"?  I'm still not completely sure what is intended.)  "Better" in the original doesn't indicate which way is preferred (and it's not clear to me one way or the other is better, merely that a certain threshold is the requirement for this badge).  This is even slightly shorter, in both characters and as displayed for me in a proportional font, which should help for a badge with one of the longest current descriptions.
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I just ran into this while writing .  [I originally wrote:     you need a minimum of X reputation to comment on questions that are not your own, and on answers that are not to your own questions   But had to shorten it to:     you need a minimum of X reputation to comment]   First, it didn't tell me that I'd gone over the character limit for the title until after I had already tabbed out of the title field.  Second, it didn't tell me how much I'd gone over or anything. I had to copy-paste the text I'd written into my text editor in order to get some real-time feedback on the exact character count, to help figure out how to best shorten it.
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Jawa asked me this  and I didn't know the answer. So I present it to the meta SO community:     [To get the Yearling badge] Do you need to earn the 200 rep within that one year or is it enough to get 200 at some point after being a member for a year? And does 'a year' mean the very first 12 months or the last (sliding window of) 12 months?    I would assume that if you hit 200 reputation after you've already been around for a year, then you would get the Yearling badge. But I don't know.
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On the "Next tag badge" panel of  for C# tag, I see:      92/100 score   88/20 answers     But, when I open the "Select your next badge" panel, there's:     97/100 score   90/20 answers       I'm not sure which one is correct. But I believe that both displays should show the same counts.  The discrepancy is not due to a caching, I've noticed it the first time many weeks ago.  For these particular current counts: I have a single C# answer with 3 votes only in the last 5 days, last upvoted 13 hours ago (2015-10-12 19:30:05Z). So it should not cause the 5 votes and 2 answers difference.  I believe that the counters on the "Select your next badge" are correct and the counters on the "Next tag badge" are wrong, as I have:     Asked 1 non-wiki question with a total score of 6. Gave 90 non-wiki answers with a total score of 97.       Today (2015-10-16), the "Next tag badge" got bumped to 97/100. But "Select your next badge" shows 98/100 already.
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The description states:     earn 150 reputation points on three different sites (not including Stack Overflow) within 15 days.     I have 3 questions:   Does this mean that if I earn 150 reputation combined on 3 sites, eg. 100 rep on Meta Stack Exchange and 50 rep on Ask Different, I would get this badge? Does Meta Stack Exchange count? Is this being awarded now since it states 'within 15 days'?
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I noted a fact on Stack Overflow badges.  ● Nice Answer  × 39355 ● Nice Question × 7601   (5.2:1 rate)  ● Good Answer  × 6433 ● Good Question × 1199   (5.3:1 rate)  ● Great Answer  × 712 ● Great Question × 105   (6.8:1 rate)  All in all, since the badges are awarded for the same amount of accumulated votes in each category, it appears that people tend to vote more for the answers than the questions...  Just a thought...
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Due to my reputation on Stack Overflow, I have access to different review queues. I want to know if it will change my score/reputation or if it will only provide me some badges?  Maybe this part seems a bit odd, but I want to know why some users spend so much time in the review queues? Is it something about their passion about Stack Overflow or their passion to help others inside the community or does it have some other reasons which I've missed?  P.S. I have read some information like  and  but I will be grateful to have your answer about this.
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I gave an answer and got a score of more than 40 but still have not got silver badge called "Good Answer". Will it take time to get it? I have read somewhere that some jobs are run after certain interval but I have still not received the badge.   Here is the screenshot where you can see that I got 65 points.