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I'm not a high rep user on SF (yet!) but I am on SU. And the answer, quite simply is, you don't need to answer all that many questions to be a high rep user. On SU, I went for one good answer a day, m …

On superuser we tended to delete April fools day questions right after april fools day. We did it for two years (we forgot this year :/). Last year we decided the questions had historic value, if not …

Product recommendations have pretty much always been off topic on all of the stack-exchange network - there's some notable exceptions recently with software recommendations (which I was a mod-pro-tem …

One of my answers to this question got deleted by community. Now, as I understand it, community handles automatic tasks, and so this might have not been done by an admin. Now, it isn't about the rep, …

Firstly, a lot of us use the front page first. If the front page is full of broken window type questions, we'll end up attracting more of those. If the answer is obviously in the manual, and the perso …

Eh. Don't just see that he's a mod, check out his overall reputation too. That said, as a long time user of the site, I agree. That said, "How to hide/mask visited url/ip from monitoring software in …

Editing it with new information will bump it up. Also consider adding a bounty if necessary. Editing is preferable to asking a new, identical question

SE will be doing this on the smaller sites eventually. And well, some of the issues people have with it feel feels a bit like source:xkcd It also actually takes up less vertical space and uses hor …

Contests are not necessarily stupid PR events - and I dare say that @SvW is utterly unfamiliar with the contests that have happened in the SE ecosystem in the past. It was a SU T Shirt that got me ho …

There needs to be design and architecture discussions to keep people at a high-level interested, but we all know that discussion is not allowed on main. …

I think there's a right way to answer a question like that Make sure you're representing yourself correctly - A lot of these spammers tend to use fake identities and countries to make themselves see …

Simply cause its often not needed. In some cases, it makes things more difficult. image files (and I suppose animated gifs) have their place in gui based environments that are reasonably standard. Y …

Hypothetically speaking, there's no way this is an actual question, and if someone asked a question like this, with the current level of context on SU it would be closed. Such a question wouldn't be m …

In this situation - the edit was sufficient. I do admit to sometimes asking a higher rep user to fix things like this when they bother me. In practice, you can always find more to edit. In this case …

Someone downvoted you. Now your reputation is 664. Now make sure you do not get exactly 2 reputation points more.