This community seems distrustful of, uhm, aliens. It can be seen the forum's statistics: there are two distinct groups of users, those who come here for quite short time and never come back, and everyone else. The latter eventually become hero and legendary users, and the former remain foreigners forever.

Is there any way for newbies to build reputation besides spending months to become a regular? Maybe some kind of a guarantee given by an already reputable user?