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{{As of|2012|8}}, 443,000 of the 1.3 million registered users had answered at least one question, and of those, approximately 6,000 (0.46% of the total user count) had earned a reputation score greater than 5000.<ref name="Bosu et al.">{{cite web|last=Bosu|first=Amiangshu|title=Building Reputation in StackOverflow: An Empirical Investigation|url=https://amiangshu.com/papers/msr-challenge-preprint-bosu.pdf|publisher=Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama|author2=Christopher S. Corley|author3=Dustin Heaton|author4=Debarshi Chatterji|author5=Jeffrey C. Carver|author6=Nicholas A. Kraft|___location=Tuscaloosa, USA|year=2013|access-date=11 February 2015|archive-date=11 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211235444/http://amiangshu.com/papers/msr-challenge-preprint-bosu.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Reputation can be gained fastest by answering questions related to tags with lower expertise density, doing so promptly (in particular being the first one to answer a question), being active during off-peak hours, and contributing to diverse areas.<ref name="Bosu et al."/>
 
As of 2025 the number of questions asked by users is declining. <ref> https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/are-llms-making-stackoverflow-irrelevant/</ref>
 
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