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Re:Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impos... by kylec on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @11:45AM (#2166138)
If you have more than 200 rep on SE site A, you can associate that account with your account on SE site B and get a 100 rep bonus on site B. This lets users that are already familiar with the system comment and vote up on any site without having to have gained rep first.
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Re:Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impos... by bherms on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @12:36PM (#2166376)
Oh cool.. I didn't realize that! I have about 250 now, but haven't ventured out of SO in a while. Thanks for the tip!
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Re:Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impos... by myhf on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @02:24AM (#2169445)
Do you have to do something to enable this? I have over 200 rep on Stack Overflow, and my profile page there and on Super User both show each other under "related accounts", but on Super User I am still at 1 reputation.

Edit: I created an account on Cooking, and it gave me the linking bonus everywhere. I guess I hadn't created accounts on any Stack Exchange sites since reaching 200 rep on one of them.

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Re:Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impos... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @11:53AM (#2166187)
I just finished writing "the only milestone that matters on StackOverflow is 50 Karma", and then you point out that 200 is useful, too. Oh well it won't take long to get 30 more karma if I want it.
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