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• Being 'early' has a big effect on your reputation.
  • Here's an example of a user with only seven questions and three answers, who hasn't posted since 2009, who has a reputation of 19,000+ because he happened to post some very-general questions that have gotten a lot of up-votes since then.
• It seems some people are overly-eager to downvote.
  • A possible way to solve this problem: have an appeals process that goes to someone who is trusted specifically for this issue, and if the downvote was incorrect, have some kind of penalty for the downvoter.

Interesting features

• Review tests / audits
  • Basically the problem was that 2k+-rep users were spamming the "Approve edit" and "Edit post" features to gain badges.
  • https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/157121/what-are-review-tests-audits-and-how-do-they-work
  • https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/276681/are-you-notified-when-you-fail-a-review-audit
  • https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/356505/why-does-the-review-queue-have-fake-questions/
  • https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/256489/is-it-really-necessary-to-test-the-attention-of-users-reviewing-edits

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