user53509: I've recently joined Arduino.SE but am a 7K+ reputation member of both SO and U&L.
Every community has its different mores, and I'm guessing that I've not yet grokked this one's.
My reputation page shows -12 reputation over the last 6 days on both questions and answers.
Can someone explain what I may be missing? Or have I just had a bad run of luck?

user4143: Bad luck, mainly.  Answers that don't quite pertain to the question, questions that you answer yourself where the question has been asked before, or questions that aren't on topic (note: we have questions on Arduino hardware and other systems that use the Arduino API. Generic microcontroller hardware questions, even if they are for a microcontroller that happens to be used on an Arduino, are not really our sphere).
We are a fairly narrow site. For more general questions on electronics and microcontrollers the Electrical Engineering SE is usually a better fit.

user10794: This site doesn't tend to up or down-vote much which therefore skews the votes you do get. As an example, I got 77 votes for an answer on Cooking Stack Exchange where I basically posted a photo of a kitchen strainer which took me a couple of minutes to take. On the other hand, I've spent hours on posts which only got a handful of votes. For example this one about interrupts which only got 11 upvotes (maybe I didn't spend hours on that particular one, but I still get a very low upvote rate).
I had down-votes when I initially joined this site, and now I am a moderator. I suggest you ignore the implied criticism and just do your best to post interesting questions, and also interesting answers and let your work speak for itself.
To a certain extent people will downvote a question if it looks like you haven't tried all that hard to research before posting, or if there is a similar question already with an answer. I'm not saying this applies in your case, but that tends to be what happens.

53509: <p>I've recently joined Arduino.SE but am a 7K+ reputation member of both SO and U&amp;L.</p>

<p>Every community has its different mores, and I'm guessing that I've not yet grokked this one's.</p>

<p>My <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/users/53509/tom-hale?tab=reputation">reputation page</a> shows -12 reputation over the last 6 days on both questions and answers.</p>

<p>Can someone explain what I may be missing? Or have I just had a bad run of luck?</p>
 4143: <p>Bad luck, mainly.  Answers that don't quite pertain to the question, questions that you answer yourself where the question has been asked before, or questions that aren't on topic (note: we have questions on Arduino hardware and other systems that use the Arduino API. Generic microcontroller hardware questions, even if they are for a microcontroller that happens to be used on an Arduino, are not really our sphere).</p>

<p>We are a fairly narrow site. For more general questions on electronics and microcontrollers the Electrical Engineering SE is usually a better fit.</p>
 10794: <p>This site doesn't tend to up or down-vote much which therefore skews the votes you do get. As an example, I got 77 votes for <a href="https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/88504/43247">an answer on Cooking Stack Exchange</a> where I basically posted a photo of a kitchen strainer which took me a couple of minutes to take. On the other hand, I've spent hours on posts which only got a handful of votes. For example <a href="https://arduino.stackexchange.com/a/22237/10794">this one about interrupts</a> which only got 11 upvotes (maybe I didn't spend hours on that particular one, but I still get a very low upvote rate).</p>

<p>I had down-votes when I initially joined this site, and now I am a moderator. I suggest you ignore the implied criticism and just do your best to post interesting questions, and also interesting answers and let your work speak for itself.</p>

<p>To a certain extent people will downvote a question if it looks like you haven't tried all that hard to research before posting, or if there is a similar question already with an answer. I'm not saying this applies in your case, but that tends to be what happens.</p>
