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Re:Looking for a new CEO by fabian2k on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:37PM (#19513864)
The restriction on upvoting is necessary to have any chance of handling vote fraud like users upvoting themselves with socks. If any new account could vote it would be far easier to cheat the system.

15 rep is also a very small barrier. Asking good questions or editing are probably the best ways to start. Editing is certainly something a new user can do, simply fixing the formatting, grammar and typos in new questions will give you 15 rep in no time.

Re:Looking for a new CEO by netok on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:48PM (#19513981)
All low hanging fruit were taken. You can ask good questions, but it would be too niche and nobody sees it.

People see your low reputation and will automatically reject your edits with generic reason, even when I gave very detailed explanation in the note.

Re:Looking for a new CEO by fabian2k on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:58PM (#19514119)
There are some non-obvious customs when editing answers, that's unlikely to go well as a very new user. But editing questions mostly for formatting and language is certainly doable without any reputation.

I'm assuming the edits are reasonable itself, there are some odd patterns that you see regularly like people using code formatting (monospace font) for emphasis. That kind of edit will get stopped.

Another option to get the basic SO privileges is to ask or answer on any other SE sites. There are many of them, and almost all are much, much easier to participate in.

Re:Looking for a new CEO by bhandziuk on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:23PM (#19514389)
If people are rejecting legitimately good edits that's a problem. People looking through the review queue should be doing so with an open mind and an eye for the edits, not the person making the edits.
Re:Looking for a new CEO by viraptor on Thursday March 28, 2019 @08:48PM (#19518143)
Search for "teh": 7306 results.

And that's only a typo. There's so much stuff that could be fixed...

Re:Looking for a new CEO by bostonvaulter2 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:17PM (#19518311)
I believe that's too small of a typo to fix, isn't there a minimum length required when editing?
Re:Looking for a new CEO by viraptor on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:07PM (#19518825)
Yes. I was pointing out that there's still lots of low hanging fruit, rather than this specific typo. But just checking out those questions shows lots of low quality stuff that could be corrected.