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This has been an exact summary of my experience with SO. Extremely useful when searching for things. Difficult to get started contributing to.

• kevin_thibedeau 9y ago
  The thresholds for unlocking privileges are there to filter out offensive trolls and other drains on the community. This can be a bit annoying since it applies separately to every subdomain and I can't be bothered to build up rep in every place that I might want to make an occasional comment.
  • shagie 9y ago
    Once you have sufficient rep on one site, you get 100 rep on all sites which is enough to comment everywhere.
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  • mark-r 9y ago
    The +100 that you get for signing up on a new subdomain is supposed to get you over that hump. But I don't remember how much rep you need to get the signup bonus.