I am in no way affiliated with Stack Overflow - I've just been a user for the past few weeks so please don't lecture me about satisfying the "customer". During

I am in no way affiliated with Stack Overflow - I've just been a user for the past few weeks so please don't lecture me about satisfying the "customer". During my time on the site I've seen the creators attempt to walk the delicate line between ease of access and attempting to curb the abuse that comes hand-in-hand with that. Personally, I think that they've made an incredibly open system that anyone can contribute to if they want. You may have been confused about the scoring system using to calculate reputation. It's a little more fine-grained than a traditional up/down karma system. Since voting up gives you +10 rep, getting 15 rep is as easy as getting two people to vote up your submission.