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How do I earn reputation points on Superuser?
I am new here.
I am trying to thank (ie: vote up) or comment on existing questions/answers. But those activities all seem to require points.
Ok - I need points... but all the activities to get ...
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How was the guy granted 1k+ rep?
This guy has 1031 rep.
1 answer of score 0.
1 badge.
Member for 3 days.
How?
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Reputation is not updated
I have some daily records of approved edits, which should continuously increase the reputation.
Suggestions as of 18th January:
However, the last successful reputation update was 3 days back:
I ...
DavidPostillMod
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Upvotes not counted
On July the 7th I gave a well received answer, at this time 85 upvotes but when I look at my reputation I see many upvotes not counted, only 35 are considered.
Here is a capture of my reputation page:...
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Where is Hall of Fame of this site?
Where is Hall of Fame of this site and of the entire group of 174 sites?
Hall of Fame, showing things like who are top 10 or 100 highest rep members, who all have most badges, who all crossed rep or ...
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Why not make it a level playing field? Downvotes of 125+ rep persons on 125- rep persons should not be recorded [closed]
So, downvotes of persons with <75 (or is it <125) reps are not recorded.
May I know Why of this yet another discriminatory rule?
Do less reps take away any fundamental rights of a person ...
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So, we "have nots" can't give 5 reputation bounty to some one as a thank you?
yesterday, one person gave answer in great details to one of my question and that made several things clear to me and satisfied.
I wanted to say thank you to him, so I thought to give 5 points bounty ...
MokubaiMod
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Migrated Posts gets downvote cleared but reputation not restored?
I posted a slightly off-topic post in Super User, got downvoted, then admin migrated my post to Stack Overflow, although the downvote has been cleared, but my deducted reputation wasn't restored. is ...
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Why did I have all but one reputation point removed and get accused of spamming?
I was browsing through questions and all of a sudden my reputation on Super User dropped from 16 to 1, this I am sure of, and I can't seem to find a reason why.
On the other hand, I think my ...
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Suggestion of a measure to avoid abandoned bounties
I see too many posts with bounties being abandoned on our site.
Bounties are an efficient attention-getter device which does well to attract answers to the post.
If the post is abandoned, this seems ...
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A removed user and their correlated Q&A Votes
Okay, so I noticed a -10 a few hours earlier and did some reading up on it and everything makes sense and seems pretty clear with regard to what happened, why it affected my rep, etc.
What I saw
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discussion in number of views and tags
I have a question about my Super User post: SNMP : I HAVE 2 community name?
I post this question from three deys , and until now the views number it's just 12 views so how we can increase the number ...
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Low-Reputation Comment Editing
I understand that users with less than 50 reputation can't comment, but sometimes answers from such low-reputation users get converted to comments by moderators, so it's possible that such comments ...
CommunityBot
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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 ...
CommunityBot
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Perfect reason for ban to ask more query?
Yesterday, I have asked a question Difference between `Tracert` and `Traceroute` that was treading.
But, I am unable to ask more queries since "You have reached your question limit", before my above ...
CommunityBot
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Electrostatic Discharge got deleted and reputation from the answers disappeared
A question about electrostatic discharge that I had answered was removed today, and with it I lost 592 reputation. The question is available via cache. I don't agree with the rationale for closing it ...
CommunityBot
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What is wrong in my reputation calculation?
See my reputation history first:
So, the reputation calculation is:
Cause Reputation Increase
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1. Basic reputation ...
CommunityBot
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Why don't up-votes on comments give reputation?
I've recently seen a few up-votes on my comments on some answers/posts/questions. However, I've noticed that I never received any reputation from them.
Why is it that we don't receive reputation from ...
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How to ask better questions and give better answers
Rarely can I ask a question or provide some kind of input without someone having a problem with it and it’s getting on my nerves. To me, they all seem like great questions and answers, so I figured ...
CommunityBot
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New OPs answering their own questions
Edit: Nevermind. This was a newbie question based on misunderstanding how the site works. Skip to the last edit at the bottom for clarification.
Much of the time, new OPs leave a question, get a ...
CommunityBot
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Shouldn't 'mark favorite' give the same reputation as an up vote? Or even more?
I suggest that marking a question as favorite should give at least as much reputation to the writer than upvoting the question... After all, if the user intends to come back to the question later, it ...
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Why do I lose reputation for questions that I accept as duplicate?
I had a question and apparently it was a duplicate. So I decided to delete it but could not delete it since it had an answer. So I accepted it as duplicate. So now why do I lose rep for something I ...
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How do you use Super User and Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I have come across several questions/answers that I would like to vote up or contribute to. However, I am not cool enough with reputation points.
Anyone know how you can be cool without asking ...
CommunityBot
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Would You IT Managers Out There Consider SU Rep Points Valid Resumè Candy? [closed]
If you were hiring for an IT position and one of your applicants included his SuperUser Reputation score in his resumè or cover letter [in addition to/definitely not in lieu of an actual resumè, of ...
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Effect of downvote on reputation
Should downvotes result into bigger reputation loss than -2 ? I believe that compared to +10 for an upvote, -2 is negligible and it would be fair to increase it.
Also, since the community is ...
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Reputation point system is ridiculous
The reputation point system is useless. Why would i need reputation points to answer a question or to create a tag? People should have the freedom to use just about any tag they want and should be ...
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Downvoting questions and answers
It appears that some are upset about the reputation people earn. I have received several downvotes without any feedback, so I don't think there is a problem with my answer. This answer has received 2 ...
CommunityBot
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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?
CommunityBot
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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 ...
CommunityBot
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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 ...
CommunityBot
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Does the bonus rep for associating accounts across different SE sites go against daily rep cap?
Does the +100 bonus rep for associating accounts across different Stack Exchange sites go against the +200 daily rep count?
CommunityBot
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What is the thinking behind the daily reputation cap?
What is the thinking behind the daily reputation cap? What harm is thus prevented?
If my answer gets 20 upvotes today and 20 tomorrow, why is that twice as good as getting 40 upvotes today?
CommunityBot
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Why do high-reputation users tend to have lots of answers but very few or no questions, and am I asking too many questions for my reputation?
After looking through the user profiles of very high-reputation users, it seems that most such users have lots and lots of answers, but very few or even no questions at all. Why?
On the other hand, ...
CommunityBot
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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 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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Wouldn't it be better to reverse the reputation used by superuser.com?
Situation:
1) I am an expert software professional
2) I recently found superuser.com from a search engine, because I found a particular Q&A useful
Desire:
1) Vote the two answers as useful
...
CommunityBot
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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 on ...
CommunityBot
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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 ...
CommunityBot
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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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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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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 ...
CommunityBot
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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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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, ...
CommunityBot
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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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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 ...
CommunityBot
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What happens to bounties when a question is moved to another Stack Exchange site?
Just wondering what happens to the reputation.
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Why isn't reputation passed between Stack Exchange sites?
I don't understand it, why do we have to make our reputation separately on Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User even if the accounts are linked?
randomMod
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Is it possible to have 0 rep?
Can you have 0 rep?
If not, what am I going to do with all these counting from 0 jokes I found under my bed?
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How does one get 996 reputation points with no questions and no answers recorded?
Or, why is my Meta reputation being accounted for so ... weirdly? Did something break?
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