Questions tagged [badges]

Would allowing specific Gold Stack Overflow badges to be exported as verifiable certificates improve user motivation and retention? I’m not referring to simply linking a profile or displaying badges ...

The lifejacket badge used to be awarded every day or two. Then on September 4, 2025, there was silence until October 24, 2025, when there was a sudden burst of over 20 being awarded. Then silence ...

As of today we are rolling out four new custom badges for Challenges on Stack Overflow (made possible by the last Community Asks Sprint), three for challenge winners, and one for challenge authors. ...

I believe we are missing a badge. Although the basic usage of this website is about asking questions and giving answers, there is one other feature which is sometimes extremely useful: writing ...

I was normally asking questions and after making progress, the badge showed as 5/5. But it didn't give it to me. I thought it was normal and it would take a little bit. After some amount of days I ...

The Daily Practice badge description sets its 50 questions reviewed threshold as being the "daily goal" in staging ground. I find that even earnestly reviewing questions for multiple hours a ...

I get on Stack Overflow kicks from time to time. Recently, the Lifeboat badge caught my eye. 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. ...

This issue came up for me recently after reviewing questions in the Staging Ground for seven consecutive days. I was tracking the Steadfast Reviewer badge in my profile, and was slightly mystified to ...

I've been doing quite a few edits over the past couple of years, and when I last checked the progress bar for the Copy Editor badge I had over 350 qualifying edits to my name. I've just checked today, ...

The Staging Ground Badge help center article claims active askers can earn gold badges when they can't actually do so, saying "gold badges are given to the most active and committed reviewers and ...

The Staging Ground Badge help center article claims reviewers can earn 9 badges when only 7 are listed. Could this be fixed?

The Staging Ground Badge Help Center article claims that the Graduate badge is a gold badge which you can get if you "Ask two questions successfully on the main site from Staging Ground." ...

Today, I got a notification about receiving the Graduate badge: This badge is supposed to be awarded to users who asked two questions in the Staging Ground that are then published. And while I did ...

I just earned the gold java badge twice. I first noticed it in my achievements: I thought it would just be a fluke of the notification being sent out twice. However, if I check my profile, I see that ...

It's good to see that the new Staging Ground badges have been added. That being said, I got some weird notifications: Apparently, I got 32 "Variety Reviewer" badges: Does that mean I ...