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?
Someone finally have the courage to make this post, something that usually happen to all newbies... the confusion and the feeling of being overwhelmed by the forum. I will simply tell you that you are not alone, my people felt the same way when we first joined the forum but the good news is that it is only for a while and you will fully understand how to enjoy all the forum has to offer. Keep being active and you will will earn merits and activities to grow. But as for reputation, it is a different thing that is earned from people whom you have earned their trust.