Stack Overflow - 100k rep reached!

Yes, I finally did it. After 6 years, I have reached 100,000 reputation on Stack Overflow!

I received a nice, unexpected email from Robert Cartaino, Community Manager at Stack Exchange Inc., titled "Stack Overflow - You're killing it.":

It's not often we get to reach out and thank someone individually for their contribution to a site, but we wanted to take this time to congratulate you for reaching 100,000 reputation on Stack Overflow! To be in the top, top rankings among the millions of Stack Exchange users puts you in some really elite company.

Hitting a milestone like this is a great opportunity to take a step back and remember what the points are really about. It's not just the tens of thousands of community members who took the time to up-vote your posts; it's the uncounted millions of people - yes millions - who have also learned (and will continue to learn) from what you've given so selflessly.

Words cannot express how much we appreciate what you've done for this community. You've worked hard, and you deserve a lot of credit for what you accomplished. We hope you've found the experience rewarding in your own way. But getting a big ole box of cool stuff from our sites is also a fun way to mark the occasion, so we put together a collection of swag for you. It's just a small token of our appreciation for everything you've done.

Click here to tell us where to send stuff.

Once again, thank you for generously contributing your time, your passion, and your knowledge. You've made the Internet better for all of us.

And for that, you should feel incredibly proud.

Robert Cartaino
Community Manager
Stack Exchange Inc.

I'm looking forward to my box of swag! :)

The following table shows some stats about my long, but rewarding, journey on Stack Overflow:

	0-10k	10-20k	20-30k	30-40k	40-50k	50-60k	60-70k	70-80k	80-90k	90-100k	Total
Date achieved	01/2011	05/2011	01/2012	09/2012	02/2013	07/2013	12/2013	05/2014	10/2014	04/2015
Questions answered	546	376	253	139	192	145	66	58	32	0	1807
Questions asked	46	1	6	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	56
Tags covered	609	202	83	10	42	14	11	14	4	0	989
Badges (gold, silver, bronze)	35 (2, 10, 23)	14 (0, 4, 10)	33 (2, 8, 23)	59 (3, 20, 36)	49 (0, 19, 30)	65 (2, 26, 37)	60 (5, 22, 33)	50 (2, 24, 24)	50 (7, 21, 25)	42 (3, 20, 19)	460 (26, 174, 260)

As the table above shows, I haven't been able to answer any questions over the last few months. This is because work has been keeping me so busy!

For me, Stack Overflow has not simply been a quest for reputation, but more about learning and helping fellow programmers in need.

Right, time to celebrate!