> And the reason is simple, look at the people who answer these questions! Some have a reputation in the hundreds. Rep farming at work! I was confused by this

> And the reason is simple, look at the people who answer these questions! Some have a reputation in the hundreds. Rep farming at work! I was confused by this statement. Doesn't a reputation in the hundreds put you distinctively in the lower end of reasonably active users? You'll need to go page 1300 or so before you see users with three-digit rep: http://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all http://stackoverflow.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all