# Community Wiki answers to avoid reputation

Sometimes, one comes across questions on the main site that facilitate very easy answers. For example, "Is this solution correct?" or "Is my understanding of definition X correct?", but also questions facilitating obvious, easy hints ("What if you differentiate $f(x)$?"). An example.

Some people dislike the reputation gain that these answers can generate for them, or fear coming off to other users as (overly) focussed on gaining reputation.

I always thought that it was accepted to use the Community Wiki feature for answers as a means to accommodate for these preferences. But as @GitGud just pointed out here, there seems to be no "official" information on this (I've searched for it, but to no avail).

Hence (TL;DR) : Is it acceptable to post "trivial" answers as CW?

Also, are there other options available? (I don't consider answering in a comment a solution, because it can keep the question bumping up, and comments are simply not intended for answering.)

• With over 1000 accepted CW answers I'm inclined to think the practice is acceptable. :) – 75064 May 8 '13 at 21:35
• So am I. But I figured it's still good to have that explicitly stated somewhere. – Lord_Farin May 8 '13 at 21:37
• Yes, this is acceptable. Somebody here (Henning?) aptly called this "Credit Waived". – Jyrki Lahtonen May 9 '13 at 4:59
• @Jyrki, indeed, it was Henning. – J. M. is a poor mathematician May 9 '13 at 5:51