Well the most obvious way is to contribute to topics that most of the industry seems to work on, which is the frustrating truth. For every ten thousand JavaScr

Well the most obvious way is to contribute to topics that most of the industry seems to work on, which is the frustrating truth. For every ten thousand JavaScript questions worth 200 points each, there is a single well-thought-out answer on an obscure topic requiring a lot of knowledge and experience with a score of about 2. What the system needs is a "difficulty" measure of some kind to encourage people to contribute across the board.