Questions regarding reputation, see also [voting] and [privileges]
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What should you do when you're not receiving any reputation for your answers?
I have posted several answers on Super User where my answers are the only ones posted for the questions, and they have never been accepted, nor have they been voted on. What should I do to ensure that ...
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Reputation cost of downvoting
Why does downvoting an answer costs 2 reputation points while doing the same on a question not?
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Why I gained 245 reputation points today?
If reputation points are capped at 200 per day, why I gained 245 today?
http://superuser.com/users/170331/sekhemty?tab=reputation
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Can someone explain how I got +2 rep points for editing this question
Can someone explain how I got +2 rep points for editing this question:
Excel Document Size is at 0KB, can't be opened
This is someone else's question.
I did not post an answer to the ...
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Where does a users rep on meta.superuser.com come from? [duplicate]
It's not associated with any other stackexchange account and my current rep doesn't match what it should be given my history.
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How does rep carry over from Super User to Meta Super User?
I do not quite understand how this works. My Meta user here has 509 rep, and my main user has 513 rep. Why is there that difference? It would seem to me that, since I have not answered/asked any ...
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Inconsistent reputation history for days without reputation changes
My recent SU reputation history:
There is an entry for Jan 3, on which There were no net reputation changes on this day. No posts are listed for this day.
There is no entry for Dec 29.
It is ...
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Reputation Leagues ignore daily reputation cap and reputation loss due to deletion
The reputation leagues seem to ignore reputation loss due to post deletion. The reputation earned for the same post is counted though, in fact, it seems to ignore reputation capping.
Oliver has an ...
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Reputation transaction history is incomplete (missing today’s paired transactions)
This answer, which I posted 2012–12–11 21:27:14Z, got accepted and unaccepted within the following 26 hours. The following screen shots were taken 2012–12–12, approximately 16:40Z and 22:40Z:
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Reputation vs. value
There was recently a question about why people lose abilities when paying a bounty. I'd like to ask a related question.
My Super User reputation score is 2,576 (as of this writing). I have answered ...
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Do not take away earned privileges
So I guess this has probably been discussed before on other meta SE sites, sorry if I re-ignite an old and long-decided discussion here.
The thing is, I'm not a very active user on SU, more on SO. I ...
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Unclear flag policy for low-reputation users
I've been notified by a mod at Android Enthusiasts of my abuse of the flag system.
I'm sorry, but we're not going to keep converting [your non-answers] to comments for
you. Earn 50 rep and you ...
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Question and suggestion on Votes and Rep
I am curious about voting or maybe the lack there of. I am an enthusiast, no expert, but I love computers and love seeing the problems and solutions in the Stack Exchange. I learn something new ...
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Lost reputation, but can't figure why
Yesterday I lost 10 rep. I can't figure why.
-3 yesterday
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+5 10:46 upvote How does formatting works with a PowerShell function that returns a set of elements?
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Rep-mining / Using the site as a blog
I’ve noticed recently that numerous users (including high-rep users and even moderators) have been posting generic, hypothetical questions, followed immediately by an answer and accepting it.
I don’t ...
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Is it possible to receive rep awarded from bounty after hitting mortarboard on the same day?
I came pretty close to this situation not long ago, except I received my mortarboard as result of getting a bounty. Also, I have received a mortarboard from a good question without receiving bounty ...
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Serial Upvoting reversed
I just had 110 rep removed from me today, for "Serial Upvoting Reversed". I assume a spammer was upvoting just to make me upset tonight? My meta rep is still higher then my site rep, but I'm sure that ...
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Super User is not displaying my correct reputation?
My stats as seen on stackoverflow
Super User 98 rep 5
Stack Overflow 90 rep 10
Programmers 1 rep 2
stats as seen on SuperUser
Super User 98 rep 5
Stack Overflow 80 rep 10
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I lost 2 reputation, but there's no reason given… Why?
Why does it show that? I don't believe that I posted or did anything on that day, so I should not have lost any reputation.
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Possible bug with dropdown user menu
I noticed a discrepancy with the way the pulldown menu (I don't know what it's officially called, the sub-window that appears when you mouse-over your name at the top) displays reputation changes, and ...
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Do association bonuses stack?
If a user gets 200 rep on one stack receives their bonus on a second stack and they then get 200 rep on a third stack, Does the user receive another rep bonus or does it only happen once?
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What happened with some users reputation today? [closed]
Today something weird happened to my account, I got 4 downvotes on questions in less than 2 minutes.
I thought it had just happened to me, but, when requesting for moderator help on chat, I saw that ...
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Users with less than 50 reputation and “answers”
Here's the deal-io: users under 50 reputation cannot comment everywhere, they can only comment on their own answers and questions.
If you are one of these users and you really need to say something ...
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Reputation summary badge is not calculated correctly
The "badge" number appearing next to the "reputation" tab title on a user's profile is not calculated correctly. It ignores the removed category of reputation gains and losses.
From May 6, 25 ...
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upvoting and reputation
I was under the impression that upvotes on an answer would yield reputation; However, I have noticed that I have received two upvotes on an answer, but I did not receive reputation. Also, I noticed ...
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Why do deleted questions remove the reputation?
On a question on SU, I noticed I lost 80 rep because a good question was deleted. Why do the good answerers suffer if a question gets deleted? Is the information not pertinent?
I think it is, and so ...
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Reputation points from Silver Yearling Badge
Why have the +200 reputation points for my Silver Yearling Badge not been added to my superuser account, but they have been added to all my other linked accounts?
Edit: After checking more carefully, ...
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How do I have 199 reputation on Meta if I haven't asked questions on here before?
I haven't asked a question on here before, but yet my meta reputation is 199. How?
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Rep history shows +25 points today, but total only incremented by 10
Today I received an upvote and best answer for an answer I posted 3 days ago. (link) However, my rep was only incremented by 10 points (from 1376 to 1386). Here's my rep history with the two ...
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If I lose the privilege of voting up, will the votes I already cast be removed?
What if people vote down my question(s)/answer(s) and then I lose some rep points (below the level required to vote up), and the privilege of voting up goes down the toilet with it (until I regain the ...
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Why aren't reputation points the same for Super User and Super User Meta?
Why aren't reputation points the same for Super User and Super User Meta?
What is the reason for this difference?
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Reputation related badges exist and are attainable on MSU
Quoting any child meta site's /reputation:
Reputation on this per-site meta is derived entirely from the main site; nothing to show.
Which is consistent with what's shown as part of the user ...
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Is it possible to give reputation points to another user?
I was in the process of editing what was a good and eventually accepted suggestion when it was deleted for being just a link. That was why I was editing it, because it was the right link it just ...
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Inconsistent handling of downvotes for reputation cap between site and /reputation page [closed]
From my reputation development yesterday, I believe there is an inconsistency between how the site treats downvote reputation loss, and how it's treated in /reputation.
Because of migrated and ...
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/privileges/trusted-user does not explain the additional privileges [closed]
/privileges/trusted-user does not explain how to best apply the delete answers privilege.
Here's a little comparison. First, I quote access to moderator tools privileges explanation for deleting ...
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can't post answer on community blocked question, have enough points
This is more of a bug report:
No option to hibernate/shutdown in GNOME 3?
text under the message says:
protected by Community♦ Oct 22 at 14:12
This question is protected to prevent ...
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Why do we start off with one rep?
Shouldn't users start with zero rep? Shouldn't every single point be earned?
What is the reasoning behind starting off every user with a little rep, then making sure that they can't ever go below ...
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Will awarding bounties remove privileges?
If I award a bounty, and my rep therefore goes lower, do I lose the privileges I've earned? For example, if I was just at 1001 Rep, and put up a bounty for 50 Rep and awarded it, do I lose my ...
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Users with less than 2k rep cannot edit meta posts
I've edited a number of posts this week, using suggested edits because I don't have 2k on SU yet. It just occurred to me that MSU might also have some posts in need of cleanup, so I came by to check.
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Question downvote miscalculation?
I recently downvoted a poorly written question. The downvote was registered on the question, the change in reputation was documented on the user's page, the downvote count on my profile incremented, ...
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Why should high rep users get privileges?
It seems to me (from reading this like this excellent post by random, and looking at the current high rep users for the quarter and the top editors for the quarter and seeing how little they overlap, ...
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Why does the Chat show so much reputation?
I wish that I had 5.9k rep, but I dont, not even combined... (and the badge count only has my superuser badges, not even meta).
What does the 5.9k mean?
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If I have 580 REP, shouldn't I be 58% on my way to viewing vote counts?
Just look at this:
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I did the math, 580 = .58 of 1000. I also refreshed the page, clicked on "view vote counts...." I haven't received any rep for a while...
Is it an update issue?
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If I delete an old valid or closed post, will I lose the reputation gained from it?
If I delete an old valid or closed post (including question and answers), will I lose the reputation gained from it?
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Does having edit privileges allow me to approve edits from others?
Pre-2000 reputation - Every time I edited a post I needed to await attention before it could be approved. I 100% agree with this rule.
Post-2000 reputation - I can edit any post without waiting for ...
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Doesn't limiting voting points to 200 potentially discourage activity?
Doesn't limiting voting points to 200 potentially discourage activity by your most active members?
I have enjoyed answering questions lately, and I would by lying if I did not say that I didn't have ...
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Mysterious +5 reputation
After perusing SuperUser I came over here to Meta and checked my profile. I noticed I had mysteriously gained +5 reputation putting me up to 106. This is strange because I haven't asked any questions ...
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Do comment upvotes affect your rep?
When your comment is upvoted, does it increase your reputation or does it not have any effect on it?
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Why is my reputation on SU/meta.SU different from the one in SO/meta.SO?
I've been here for quite some time, but I haven't really yet understood the following situation:
A few weeks ago, I had ~2000 rep on SU, maybe a bit more
When I then visited meta.SU, I received ...
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Why don't people upvote when browsing the site?
I've been on the StackExchange boards for quite some time now and it seems that people don't upvote other's answers anymore when browsing the site. At least from my experience.
Let's take this ...
