I just added both accounts and didn't get any bonus 100 points. I guess maybe I did it in the wrong order or maybe my stackoverflow account was too new?
Robby On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:26 AM, John Clements <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote: > > On May 25, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Jon Rafkind wrote: > >> On 05/25/2010 09:23 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: >>> 2010/5/25 Guillaume Marceau<gmarc...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>>> but since this is on *meta*stackoverflow, perhaps it requires people >>>>> with reputation there instead. (And if this is the case, then it'll >>>>> be hard to get upvoted enough.) >>>>> >>>> Yes, it need reputation points on meta. >>>> >>>> I wasn't able to vote despite having 71 points on stackoverflow.com >>>> >>> I got 100 reputation points just by creating a new account. >>> This was enough to vote on the ad. If I understand the FAQ correctly >>> no more than 15 points is needed. Whether or not it helped that >>> I already had points on stackoverflow, I don't know. >>> >>> >> I already had an account on stackoverflow with my google openid and I used >> that same id to create an account on meta stackoverflow, but I only started >> out with 1 reputation point. They also gave me some made up username of >> 'user23842' or something. >> >> Maybe you were the 1000th user or something? > > I also got 100 reputation points. Used the same ID to create the account, > saw this banner at the top: > > "You've associated your Stack Overflow Meta and Stack Overflow accounts: +100 > reputation" > > Was it a Google OpenID? > > John > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev > > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
