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The website features the ability for users to ask and answer questions, and, through membership and active participation, to vote questions and answers up or down and edit questions and answers in a [[wiki]] fashion. Users of Stack Overflow can earn reputation points and “badges”; for example, a person is awarded 10 reputation points for receiving an “up” vote on an answer given to a question, and can receive badges for their valued contributions.<ref name="soFAQ">[http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation Stack Overflow FAQ, “What is Reputation?”] (last viewed: [[2009-02-26]])</ref>

As of May 2009, Stack Overflow has about 64,000 registered users, and 169,000 questions. Based on [[tag (metadata)|tags]] assigned to the questions, the most common topics on the site are [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[.NET Framework|.NET]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[ASP.NET]], [[C++]], [[JavaScript]], [[PHP]], [[CSS]], [[HTML]], [[JavaScript]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[SQL]], and [[Microsoft SQL Server|SQL Server]].<ref name="tags">{{cite web | title = Stack Overflow: Tags | url= http://stackoverflow.com/tags | accessdate = 2009-05-26}}</ref>

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