@dbliss You seem to think that the purpose of Ask Ubuntu is to reward people with reputation points in the most fair manner possible. Please review the
tour. This site exists to actually help people in the real world by building "a library of detailed answers to every question about Ubuntu." Please notice the prominent presence of "answers" and how rep is not mentioned
until the second half of the tour. The reputation system exists to support the quality and usefulness of actual content, not the other way around. (I also disagree that "don't post a duplicate question" is "SE rule #1.")