I’m top .55%, come at me bro. Anyway… yeah, I got there by using it daily, looking for challenging questions that not only helped a lot of people (I hope) but a

I’m top .55%, come at me bro. Anyway… yeah, I got there by using it daily, looking for challenging questions that not only helped a lot of people (I hope) but also taught me or reinforced a lot of things along the way. That’s the way you should use it; to be helpful and share knowledge, engage with lots of interesting and often very impressive devs out there, and help mod the site. The gamification part is an added bonus but I found that it fostered a bad attitude when I looked at it strictly as a competition, and I think answer quality suffered as well. Eventually your body of work will start accumulating points without having to put much into the site. Personally, I don’t have much time to research answers anymore. Help first, everything else later. Just be aware it’s a tedious and labor intensive endeavor that ultimately has little value outside of feeling good about sharing knowledge and helping someone who’s going through something you’ve suffered through as well.