Just look at some of the [Top Users][1]. I notice that [Bill the Lizard][2] and [Cletus][3] seem to do fine on rep. :)

And [Cletus][4] has 145K rep on the *main* site, too...


  [1]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
  [2]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/1288/bill-the-lizard
  [3]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/18393/cletus
  [4]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/18393/cletus