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Discussion on: I asked my first StackOverflow question

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Martin Davies

Once you reach a certain level on Stack Overflow you get points for reviewing the posts of newcomers - there's a dedicated section on the site for it. The result is that people come across as overly critical and nit-picky. In fact, they just want the extra points

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Jakob Christensen

You do not get SO points for reviewing. You may get badges though but it takes a lot of work to earn badges for edits and usually two or more reviews are needed for an edit to go through.