I'd like to better understand 1) Github pull requests for document editing/collab, the examples seem very interesting - and 2) what it takes to get more rep on SO.

Not "write good answers".. Everybody knows that. I'm talking about the unwritten rules that maximize the time spent in gaining points. Max the time spent helping others, if you must look at it that way. SO points is very interesting to me as a currency, they do have value and alot of expensive devs time is spent in earning them.

If you have any really smart, helpful tips please join this experiment via pull request to https://github.com/dpweb/Getting-Reputation-on-Stack-Overflow

They should be white hat, in that they don't break terms of service or game the system directly, such as create a bunch of fake acocunts and upvote your own stuff, etc..

Thx,