I disagree on your idea. Get out of leecher status and you get yourself an avatar. It's only 10 rep, not that hard, help people out, post something useful, answer questions and you'll be good. Don't post useless things or repost things, some people will give you -rep for that. Anyways, I was a leecher once too, but then I contributed one thing, got 50 rep for it, and I just kept contributing, now I'm an elite member and also a news correspondent

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