The phrase 'earn reputation' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the action of gaining respect or notoriety by the things you do. For example, "He worked hard to earn reputation as a reliable employee."
Within the genres of participation framework, creating tutorials can be seen as a way to earn reputation and demonstrate expertise within the alternative status economy of a specific interest-driven community.
On the collaborative blog MathOverflow, mathematicians earn reputation points for contributing to solutions; in another math experiment dubbed the Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on the Fields medalist Timothy Gower's blog in 2009 found a new proof for a particularly complicated theorem in just six weeks.
Members also earn reputation points, and can level up as their reputation grows.
Users earn reputation points and badges for filling out a profile and answering questions.
Users can vote up or down questions and answers and earn reputation points and badges in return for their active participation.
Developers want to earn course credits and not only earn reputation among other developers, contribute to a bigger cause or "scratch a personal itch" [31].
But those who time and again pass through its velvet ropes earn reputations for being as dependable as sunrise.
In business, these people earn reputations as thought leaders.
A heard earned reputation for economic competence disappeared under the rubble of collapsing banks.
The commercial graph's ability to depict each party's earned reputation is its main source of value.
Long before it was made open source, the platform had a well earned reputation for being hard to program.
