[plt-dev] Stackoverflow ad

I just added both accounts and didn't get any bonus 100 points. I
guess maybe I did it in the wrong order or maybe my stackoverflow
account was too new?

Robby

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:26 AM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> On May 25, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>
>> On 05/25/2010 09:23 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
>>> 2010/5/25 Guillaume Marceau<gmarceau at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>>> but since this is on *meta*stackoverflow, perhaps it requires people
>>>>> with reputation there instead.  (And if this is the case, then it'll
>>>>> be hard to get upvoted enough.)
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, it need reputation points on meta.
>>>>
>>>> I wasn't able to vote despite having 71 points on stackoverflow.com
>>>>
>>> I got 100 reputation points just by creating a new account.
>>> This was enough to vote on the ad. If I understand the FAQ correctly
>>> no more than 15 points is needed. Whether or not it helped that
>>> I already had points on stackoverflow, I don't know.
>>>
>>>
>> I already had an account on stackoverflow with my google openid and I used that same id to create an account on meta stackoverflow, but I only started out with 1 reputation point. They also gave me some made up username of 'user23842' or something.
>>
>> Maybe you were the 1000th user or something?
>
> I also got 100 reputation points.  Used the same ID to create the account, saw this banner at the top:
>
> "You've associated your Stack Overflow Meta and Stack Overflow accounts: +100 reputation"
>
> Was it a Google OpenID?
>
> John
>
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