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Jun 3, 2010 at 3:46 comment added Gnome Creating a site is a much more involved and has much longer until payoff than just spamming example questions. The vast majority of users will continue generating questions, if they are motivated by rep, instead of proposing sites.
Jun 2, 2010 at 22:13 history made wiki Post Made Community Wiki by Jeff Atwood
Jun 2, 2010 at 1:50 comment added Joel Spolsky Five TRILLION. Just kidding. I don't think we've figured that out, but I think it has to do with the volume of the site, possibly on some kind of logarithmic scale... The bigger your site gets, the more reputation you deserve for thinking it up.
Jun 2, 2010 at 1:47 comment added Kyle Cronin How much rep does getting a site created produce?
Jun 2, 2010 at 1:43 comment added Joel Spolsky The best way to get rep on area51 BY FAR is to propose a site that gets created.
Jun 2, 2010 at 1:41 comment added Kyle Cronin This. Unfortunately, generating tons of questions is the only way to get decent rep on area51, so people will continue to do it.
Jun 2, 2010 at 1:27 history answered Joel Spolsky CC BY-SA 2.5