A general remark that I always had and wanted to share is how easy it was to boost your reputation in the early days of SO. For instance, questions like "Best practices" for something, or what is a git stash, etc..Some questions are rather very simple and wont get you that much these days, but because somebody was the first to ask them, they got lots of points. My point is, it should have been harder to get points for asking relatively simple questions, and then gradually make it easier for people to get more points for asking questions as they dont have a choice but ask a more challenging question, thus contributing more to SO. PS: I wanted to link to some questions but they are in abundance. just think of a simple question and watch the spectacle of points.