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In a first instance, reputation doesn't measure how much you do for the broad community (in a sense of cleanup, or whatever you deem necessary). … However, we somehow need to find a way to quantify how much we can trust a user, and unless there's a better alternative, we have to do it through reputation. …

Hold answers for review if the user has less than 50 reputation? … If you're really desperate to say something, you'll try to get 50 reputation and then do it. If you manage to phrase an additional answer on that post where you wanted to comment, even better. …

Have you looked at the median reputation score yet? … Please don't take this the wrong way, but concluding this from a mere 16 reputation per post seems a little presumptuous. …

From our help center: You can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day. So this is not a bug. Only reputation from accepted answers (+15) does not count towards the daily limit. … You will not get any more reputation for today (based on UTC time). Any upvotes (or other means of getting reputation) will not count today. You'll have to wait until tomorrow. …

Yes, your reputation will be restored. If not immediately, then at least within a few minutes. …

From: How does “Reputation” work? You can earn a maximum of +200 reputation from upvotes and suggested edits in any given day. Accepted answers and bounties are counted separately. …

Also note that even though new users can participate, you need at least 15 reputation to vote up posts (and consequently 125 for voting down). … Also, why not actively encourage voting more on the voter's side and let reputation gain for others be a result of this, rather than having the system automatically award reputation without even knowing …

Moderators are those people you call when there's nothing else you can do given your current reputation, and thus, privileges. Mostly, when there's something wrong. … You're generating extra work that could have possibly been avoided if a) the comment would have been more profound and could have stood as an answer or b) you had taken the time to focus on getting 50 reputation …

Jeff initially proposed this in May 2011: Should downvotes on questions be “free”? Since the community agreed, the proposal was implemented soon thereafter. The rationale behind it is that a questio …

Your answer does not explain anything; it's just two sentences. There's more valuable information in the comments to your answer than in the post itself. By all means, I see no reason it should not b …

Do the up-votes I already gave other Q&As disappear, lowering back that user's reputation in the process […]? No. The votes you once cast can not be removed like that. …

Right now, I have the same reputation on both Meta and Super User, but that wasn't the case like 10 minutes ago, when I asked the question. The reputation syncs on an hourly basis. …

High reputation users know how the site works. They know they cannot ask a bad question that doesn't show research effort, because it would be downvoted or closed. … High reputation users ask their questions on other sites. I sometimes post my Apple-specific questions on Ask Different. …

And please, do not choose questions to answer based on the reputation of the user. …