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How do you use Super User and Stack Overflow?
Thanks for your interest in participating! The reputation system can be a little bit confusing at first, but rest assured - it's not that we think you aren't cool.
Start out by taking the tour. It ...
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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
Cause people who have earned a privilege have shown some ability to understand how things work. People with lower rep have not yet. SE fundamentally runs as a meritocracy
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Why don't up-votes on comments give reputation?
Comments serve an auxiliary function; they exist to support the all-important questions and answers. The goal is not to generate more comments, but better Q&A.
As such, you should assume that ...
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Somebody wants to buy my account on SuperUser.com
ooh. This is a strange one.
IANAL but I suppose the terms of service would be the thing to look at here. I don't see anything explicitly talking about transferring an account but
Subscriber is ...
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Why did I have all but one reputation point removed and get accused of spamming?
You posted an answer recommending a website which has been previously spammed by multiple users.
Apart from that your answer:
Check that your F2 and F4 keys work!!
does not actually answer the ...
DavidPostillMod
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Migrated Posts gets downvote cleared but reputation not restored?
It is normal. The original question (now a migration stub) is still here.
While the question exists here it has a downvote on it. That downvote counts. Downvotes on questions do not get migrated, ...
MokubaiMod
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Somebody wants to buy my account on SuperUser.com
Given that:
You login into Super User (and by extension the wider Stack Exchange network) via 3rd party authorisation tools
Your Super User account is linked to other accounts you may have on the ...
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Why do I lose reputation for questions that I accept as duplicate?
You don't lose reputation for posting a question that ended up being closed as a duplicate. That doesn't happen.
What happens is other users may have seen your question and decided that yes, a ...
randomMod
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Reputation is not updated
I have some approved edits, which should increase my reputation.
The reputation from approved edits is capped at 1000:
You gain reputation when:
...
suggested edit is accepted: +2 (up ...
DavidPostillMod
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Allow rep from ALL Stack-Exchanges sites to be considered for rep-required functions
Might it be useful to somehow consider other Stack-Exchange sub-site rep when determining restrictions?
It kind of is already. Once any of your accounts on the Stack* network reach 200 rep, the other ...
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How can someone have only 1 reputation?
User that have been suspended by moderators will have their reputation set to 1 for the duration of a suspension.
Alternatively the user could have given away all their reputation on bounties.
MokubaiMod
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So, we "have nots" can't give 5 reputation bounty to some one as a thank you?
I wanted to say thank you to him, so I thought to give 5 points bounty to him.
A bounty isn't intended as a way to say "thank you" for an answer. So the bounty system is designed to prevent small ...
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Where is Hall of Fame of this site?
You'll find them on the Stack Exchange website https://stackexchange.com/leagues
Site specific stuff (edits/votes etc) can be found on the /users route. Ex: https://superuser.com/users
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Suggestion of a measure to avoid abandoned bounties
I don't think the collection of fake internet points is the main driver here.
A lot of questions with reasonably good answers are abandoned without being accepted, regardless if a bounty is set or ...
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So, we "have nots" can't give 5 reputation bounty to some one as a thank you?
A single up vote on an answer is worth 10 reputation to the receiver, and on a question it is worth 5 reputation.
Giving an up vote is completely free to you, and is more of a bonus than a single ...
MokubaiMod
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A removed user and their correlated Q&A Votes
Yes, when a user is removed without their votes being retained, the votes are nullified, hence your rep change. (If the votes were to be kept, the Community user would take ownership of them.) ...
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How can i get reputation if i am not permitted to answer and participate in superuser network?
They say I need firstly to reach 50 reputation points
50 rep is required to comment not to answer questions.
You can always answer questions (as long as you haven't been answer banned for poor ...
DavidPostillMod
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Upvotes not counted
“I see many upvotes not counted, only 35 are considered.”
You have been repcapped:
You can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day from the combination of upvotes, downvotes and suggested edits. ...
DavidPostillMod
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What is wrong in my reputation calculation?
Looks like the downvote here was reversed, and that isn't reflected in the events for some reason. Not sure if its a bug.
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How to ask better questions and give better answers
It seems like you are mixing up comments from other users asking or clarification with feedback in the form of up votes or down votes.
Rarely can I ask a question or provide some kind of input ...
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Electrostatic Discharge got deleted and reputation from the answers disappeared
I've undeleted the question tho I would leave it to the community to decide if it should be on hold.
That said, it's an unexceptional question, bordering on terrible, with exceptional answers. It ...
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"This looks like spam"
A proven solution to having your question blocked by spam filter is:
make a post on meta and have meta regulars help you.
However, if you don't have enough reputation to do that, you can do the ...
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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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Can't answer a highly active question even though I meet the reputation requirement
From the FAQ:
Who can answer a protected question?
Users with 10 or more reputation can answer a protected question. However, the +100 account association bonus is ignored for this check2, so users ...
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Make badges be worth reputation
Most badges reward behavior that's not directly reflected in the reputation system. Reputation points are gained by contributing via posts (mostly by creating posts, but sometimes by editing them), ...
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No more reps for editing posts after 2000 reps?
Right, once you hit 2K, all edits you make are applied immediately. It wouldn't make sense to let people just create infinite rep by making thousands of unilateral edits. You can still make suggested ...
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How can i get reputation if i am not permitted to answer and participate in superuser network?
Note that you may have encountered a protected question. Some questions that have been observed to attract multiple poor answers by very new users can be protected, either automatically or by a >15K ...
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Perfect reason for ban to ask more query?
You have asked a total of 14 questions on this site, of which only 6 have remained open or not been deleted. Many of your deleted questions were downvoted, ignored or otherwise off-topic
Your current ...
MokubaiMod
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How was the guy granted 1k+ rep?
Looks like an account merge with a much older account.
I'm too sleepy to actually do more digging, but the rep seems to be from an old question from waaaaaay back, deleted but around enough to keep ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible