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How to gain reputation
- Monitor certain tags that you're more familiar with, and try to jump on any new question before someone else does.
- Improve question titles
- In my experience, a lot of new SO users are bad at titling their questions.
- It's relatively quick to improve a question's title.
- You get +2 reputation for an approved change.
- You'll probably only want to do this with questions about tech you're familiar with.
- Be among the first to use a new technology that is becoming more popular, and answer questions as you learn how to use it. As more people use the new technology, your answers will get a lot of upvotes.
- Write in-depth answers to major problems rather than one-off problems.
- Rewrite the question's title to be more descriptive, which will help more people arrive at your answer.
- Both the questions and answers can get upvotes that increase your reputation, and so you have an incentive to not wait for questions, but instead to ask questions that you already know the answer to and that you think lots of other people will also have.
- Also. if you come across someone who has a question contains a bunch of different issues, one of which would make a good general question, then edit the title of that question to steer that person's question away from the 'goldmine' of the more-general question, and ask that question yourself.
- Most answers get very few upvotes, and so it's honestly a bit of a waste of time if you're going for a high reputation to answer those very-specific questions.