I don't have enough "karma" to do anything useful on Stackoverflow. Apparently I have to do, as I said, a bunch of piddly bullshit things to earn enough to act

I don't have enough "karma" to do anything useful on Stackoverflow. Apparently I have to do, as I said, a bunch of piddly bullshit things to earn enough to actually add useful content to the site. I understand why, it's a spam prevention method, but it also keeps me from contributing.