As you use Programmers - Stack Exchange to ask and answer questions, you’ll earn badges, which appear on your user page and in your user card.
| Altruist × 30 | First bounty you manually awarded on another person's question | |
| Analytical × 544 | Visited every section of the FAQ | |
| Announcer × 567 | Shared a link to a question that was visited by 25 unique IP addresses | |
| Archaeologist | Edited 100 posts that were inactive for 6 months | |
| Autobiographer × 14096 | Completed all user profile fields | |
| Benefactor × 135 | First bounty you manually awarded on your own question | |
| Beta × 96 | Actively participated in the private beta | |
| Booster × 74 | Shared a link to a question that was visited by 300 unique IP addresses | |
| Citizen Patrol × 1650 | First flagged post | |
| Civic Duty × 447 | Voted 300 or more times | |
| Cleanup × 145 | First rollback | |
| Commentator × 3231 | Left 10 comments | |
| Convention × 36 | 10 posts with score of 2 on meta | |
| Copy Editor × 5 | Edited 500 posts | |
| Critic × 3055 | First down vote | |
| Deputy × 41 | Raised 80 helpful flags | |
| Disciplined × 66 | Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher | |
| Editor × 6453 | First edit | |
| Electorate × 41 | Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions | |
| Enlightened × 1244 | First to answer and accepted with at least 10 upvotes | |
| Enthusiast × 897 | Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days | |
| Epic × 2 | Earned 200 daily reputation 50 times | |
| Excavator × 254 | Edited first post that was inactive for 6 months | |
| Famous Question × 69 | Asked a question with 10,000 views | |
| Fanatic × 174 | Visited the site each day for 100 consecutive days | |
| Favorite Question × 157 | Question favorited by 25 users | |
| Generalist × 38 | Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags | |
| Good Answer × 3214 | Answer score of 25 or more | |
| Good Question × 1001 | Question score of 25 or more | |
| Great Answer × 307 | Answer score of 100 or more | |
| Great Question × 79 | Question score of 100 or more | |
| Guru × 505 | Accepted answer and score of 40 or more | |
| Investor × 41 | First bounty you offered on another person's question | |
| Legendary | Earned 200 daily reputation 150 times | |
| Marshal × 3 | Raised 500 helpful flags | |
| Mortarboard × 807 | Earned at least 200 reputation in a single day | |
| Necromancer × 578 | Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more | |
| Nice Answer × 11955 | Answer score of 10 or more | |
| Nice Question × 4119 | Question score of 10 or more | |
| Notable Question × 521 | Asked a question with 2,500 views | |
| Organizer × 551 | First retag | |
| Outspoken × 6 | Posted 10 messages in chat that were starred by 10 different users | |
| Peer Pressure × 229 | Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower | |
| Popular Question × 2239 | Asked a question with 1,000 views | |
| Populist × 118 | Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x | |
| Precognitive × 69 | Followed the Area 51 proposal for this site before it entered the commitment phase | |
| Promoter × 191 | First bounty you offered on your own question | |
| Proofreader × 11 | Approved or rejected 100 suggested edits | |
| Publicist × 47 | Shared a link to a question that was visited by 1000 unique IP addresses | |
| Pundit × 314 | Left 10 comments with score of 5 or more | |
| Quorum × 454 | One post with score of 2 on meta | |
| Research Assistant | Edited 50 tag wikis | |
| Reversal × 3 | Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score | |
| Reviewer × 4 | 1000 reviews, over 200 actioned | |
| Revival × 131 | Answered more than 30 days later as first answer scoring 2 or more | |
| Scholar × 5304 | Asked a question and accepted an answer | |
| Self-Learner × 105 | Answered your own question with score of 3 or more | |
| Sportsmanship × 46 | Up voted 100 competing answers | |
| Stellar Question × 12 | Question favorited by 100 users | |
| Strunk & White × 26 | Edited 80 posts | |
| Student × 8385 | Asked first question with score of 1 or more | |
| Suffrage × 385 | Used 30 votes in a day | |
| Supporter × 19204 | First up vote | |
| Synonymizer × 21 | First approved tag synonym | |
| Tag Editor × 112 | First Tag Wiki Edit | |
| Talkative × 66 | Posted 10 messages, with 1 or more starred, in chat | |
| Taxonomist × 94 | Created a tag used by 50 questions | |
| Teacher × 11964 | Answered first question with score of 1 or more | |
| Tenacious | Zero score accepted answers: more than 5 and 20% of total | |
| Tumbleweed × 103 | Asked a question with no votes, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week | |
| Unsung Hero | Zero score accepted answers: more than 10 and 25% of total | |
| Vox Populi × 79 | Used the maximum 40 votes in a day | |
| Yearling × 3547 | Active member for a year, earning at least 200 reputation |
