If you really want to, you can trick the system. But doing that correctly, with close-to-zero risk does not worth the price. Note, SE, while it is funny, it is also a psychological hack. If you trick the system - with a lot of work - to get to a high rep easily, then you violate its written rules, but you can not do it without producing also worthy content. With this, you still do what the creators of the SE do want from you.

@realtebo The answer to your apache error log question is probably that you get https or ajp traffic on a http port, or some similar. The most typical reason is misconfigured apache (if you don't set up the keys and SSLEngine On, apache listens as http on :443 without any problem or even a warning), if you are in hardcore java environment, then also AJP is possible. But that binary traffic looks more https than ajp on the first spot.

@realtebo Collect many rep, by writing many answers. There are a big topical overlap between the SE sites, while their community standards and voting customs may hugely different; I am not sure that the SF is the best starting site for you, with its particularly strict entry requirements.