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Questions regarding reputation, see also [voting] and [privileges]

25 votes

Doesn't limiting voting points to 200 potentially discourage activity?

Lemme play devil's advocate here... Is it so terrible if it does discourage activity? If someone wakes up in the morning, posts some great answers, hits the rep cap, and takes the rest of the day off …
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Why don't up-votes on comments give reputation?

Granting reputation for comment votes would create a perverse incentive to post more of them and keep them around longer, potentially resulting in situations where questions and answers are buried under …
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8 votes

Raise the minimum rep needed to create new tags

The following 133 tags have been created by users with < 1500 reputation at the time of creation during the past 365 days and are currently in-use on at least 2 questions: Name Used … 497 centos-7 2 Rob 7/10/2014 373 google-chrome-canary 2 Shimmy 5/6/2014 433 For contrast, users with >= 1500 reputation
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2 votes

I don't understand the reputation limit

Bounties and "accept" bonuses will still be applied to your reputation after you've hit the cap, but 'till then they're just normal reputation as far as that cap is concerned. … The bonuses awarded to users for an accepted answer (normally 15, additional when there's a bounty on the question) are immune to the daily reputation cap... however, the cap is not immune to them: you'll …
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How did a user with no actions and only 101 rep get the Mortarboard badge?

Meta sites still track reputation internally - it's just never displayed anywhere. For example, your "meta rep" right now is 23. … So you can still earn badges related to reputation, as odd as that may seem. See also: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/251249/mortarboard-continues-to-be-awarded-on-meta-stack-overflow …
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