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But then you lose the ability to participate in the community because of your "reputation".

• BeetleB 4y ago
  From https://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation https://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation: > Reputation is entirely optional > The three most important activities on Stack Overflow are Asking, Answering and Editing - none of which require any reputation at all! Looking at what reputation brings, the highest one that matters to me is downvoting questions, which requires 125. My reputation is over 400, and I didn't have to deal with any trauma to get there. Sure, if you want to do more things (edit wikis, etc) you need a higher reputation, but 99% of SO users don't care for anything above 125. Put another way: Most of them will not benefit if you do have the high reputation. At a certain level, this is a complaint out of a desire to gamify points.
  • stuff4ben 4y ago
    That's basically what I'm saying. Lack of reputation inhibits your ability to participate in the site (beyond asking, answering, and editing questions).
    • BeetleB 4y ago
      And what I'm saying is ... that's OK for 99% of users. I'm not sure it's a problem that it is hard to participate beyond voting, commenting and asking/answering.