How to Gain Reputation on Stack Exchange- WikiHow 

Five Methods:Understand ReputationWrite a Well-Researched Question or AnswerReceive Reputation through BountiesReputation through EditsGain Network Bonuses

Stack Exchange is a network of 130 sites that was started in 2008. These sites use a point system (reputation) to gauge what answers or questions are the best. Reputation is gained from other users voting on your question or answer or from you getting a bounty. While there are a few other ways of getting reputation, they are not the main methods. This article will show you how to gain reputation on Stack Exchange. The Stack Exchange site Stack Overflow will be used as a example.

Reputation is not very hard to understand, because it is basically the point system used on Stack Exchange. Reputation can only be received 200 per day, unless you get bounties, Association Bonuses or you gave the "Best Answer".

Understand what reputation is. Reputation is the level of trust that you gain from the community.

Reputation is based on you and how well-written your posts are post. If you write a bad post, you are likely to be down-voted and lose reputation. On the good side, you can never lose all reputation. You can delete posts and regain reputation, and you will always have at least one reputation point.

Reputation is a stepping stone. Without reputation, you don\'t have access to a lot of privileges.

If you gain 200 reputation points from a Stack Exchange site, you automatically receive 100 points in all of the other Stack Exchange Sites that you are on. Thus, you will have access to more privileges since you are now an experienced user.

Understand how to regain reputation if you lose it. Reputation can be gained back if a question is un-downvoted, or if you were a victim of voting fraud. Also, if you delete a post, you get the reputation back. However, be warned that you cannot always delete a post.

Accepting your own answer does not give you reputation. However, accepting someone else\'s answer gives you 2+ reputation.

Ask around! There is also a question and answer link on every site. Check it out.

Reputation is tricky, but if you are an active user, you will learn the basics fairly quickly. In addition, you will retain reputation points since you will use them frequently.

Understand that writing a well-researched post on Stack Exchange is key to receiving reputation, as most reputation comes from answers or questions. For a more in-depth explanation, see How to Write a Well Received Question or Answer on Stack Exchange.

Find a question that you can answer, or a question you can ask. The question that you answer should be something that you have experience in, or have researched.

Never ask or answer blindly on a topic. When asking, make sure that the question is well researched and something that you genuinely know about. If you are answering your own question, make sure that you can answer the question with a good, well-researched response.

Do your research and attribute your sources. Your post should have research. Make the post look tidy link by hyperlinking all external or internal links.

Even if it takes you several days or hours, a well-researched post will do better than a non-researched post.

Make your post. Make sure that it contains good punctuation and spelling. When in doubt of the quality, ask a proofreader to help out. You may even find someone on the site that you can trust to do this task.

Bounties are awards set out for users " searching" down a acceptable answer.

Know what a Bounty is on Stack Exchange. It is a reputation award that gives some of your reputation to another user to answer the question.

This involves writing a well-researched post. Otherwise. the person won\'t even consider your answer.

Bounties are between 50 and 500 reputation points and are non-refundable. So, once you win them, they are yours.

All Bounties are exempt from the limit of reputation that you are allowed to gain in one day.

Know how the bounty will be awarded. The bounty that you answer will be open for the questioner to manually give a user the bounty within seven days. After a week, the bounty will be given to the highest voted answer, may the best user win.

Find yourself a Bounty and answer it. Bounties can be found under the "Featured Questions" link on the main page. You have to be logged in to see it.

The red bubbles with numbers will tell you how much the bounty is for.

Answer the Bounty. The bounty will be like any normal post, do your best and don\'t write a duplicate. Use the steps for writing a good question.

There are a lot of things that you can edit and they are worth 2+ rep each. This section will show you how to access them and benefit the most from them.

Know what an edit is. An edit involves editing someone\'s post or editing a tag.

Finding edits are easy. If you know where to look, new users will usually make more mistakes, so check their post first. You can identify new users because they will have very low reputation (usually about one reputation point). This will help both of you, since you can show the user how to fix the mistake, and you can gain some reputation.

Edit a tag. This step will focus on editing a tag, because posts are easy just click on "edit" and your halfway there.

Do a good edit. Don\'t plagiarize or write with bad grammar or punctuation. Use well-defined words, and, if in doubt, look at how other people\'s tags are done. Never use Wikipedia; make your own edit.

Realize that other users will have to check your edit before you get reputation. If they "throw it out", then you gain no rep.

Once you gain Tag Wiki Editing or Editing Questions and Answers Privileges, you no longer gain rep.

Any user can that has 200+ rep can get these bonuses. They are hard to get initially, but are easier and provide a lot of help if you are a active user. They will give you immediate privileges, if you are a new user on one of the Stack Exchange Sites.

Try your hardest. Be a active user and utilize answering post and asking your own questions. Write good questions and make good edits.

Your basic task to do now is gain 200 rep. Utilize the things that you learned in other steps.

You should obtain your bonus. A green 100 will pop up, in the left hand corner of the screen that records all of your rep changes.

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You gain reputation through writing well-researched questions, by getting up votes.

After you gain a certain amount of rep, you stop gaining rep from edits.

But this doesn\'t mean stop, your edits still go toward badges you may earn

Edits for Stack Exchange tags cannot be taken from Wikipedia. Make them up yourself, or edit an existing tag.

Going to your user page after you gain some reputation or lose reputation can show you the details of the rep change. Just click the tab that says Reputation.

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