When your fellow users vote up your questions and answers on a Stack Exchange site, you generatereputation. Reputation is a rough measure of:

• how much the community trusts you
• your communication skills
• the quality and relevancy of your questions and answers

These friendlyreputation leagues are an informal way of tracking your reputation within the community on a particular Stack Exchange.

Reputation is capped at200 per day, but remember that bounty awards and accepted answers are immune to this daily reputation cap.