<p>Are there reputation effects in SE communities and to what extent are reputation effects contingent on various variables such as size of the community, number of views per day, no of questions per day etc?</p>

<p>Reputation effect: Everything else being equal questions/answers of high rep users are voted up much more relative to questions/answers of low rep users.</p>

<p>Data source: See Shane's <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/2512/what-should-be-our-first-polystats-project/2514#2514">answer</a>.</p>
