I agree with many of the answers provided, mostly with TheTXI.

However, what I see right now is users gaming the system, and it's a bit worrying. The typical listing questions/community wikis are insanely popular (because you merely say what you already use, not necessarily why you use it) and it doesn't take a lot of effort to answer, creating these horrible lists of answers that are short, yet so many of them that it doesn't matter.

This is really a shame, as I think many users believe this is all fair and square due to SU being labeled as the "anything computer related goes", without considering the part where you ask a question and get hopefully one good answer that satisfied you.

That's not the case with the majority of questions, and it's a darn shame, as SU can do a whole lot better than this, especially the users, instead of gaming this and getting reps at speeds comparable to this.

while ( $rep < 500 ) {
    $rep++;
}