Questions tagged [reputation]
Measurement of a user's contributions to the site, and the extent to which the community "trusts" that user with extra privileges.
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Why does my reputation go down after a user self-deleted the question I posted an answer to? [duplicate]
I'm relatively new to Stack Overflow and managed to earn some reputation in little over a week by posting good answers. Today, I found that my reputation was lowered by 45 points (almost one-third of ...
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New User Barriers: The Reputation System's Impact on Participation [duplicate]
I'm new to StackOverflow and would like to use it more, but I'm a little confused about the reputation system. Why do you need reputation to do things like comment or vote? It seems like a barrier to ...
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Why did my reputation only increase by 2 for an upvoted answer? (reputation cap is not a factor)
Today, an answer I wrote to the question 'Why did Joseph Goebbels allow an all-Jewish Orchestra to exist and perform in Berlin from 1938 to 1941?' on History SE received an upvote. My reputation page ...
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dispute -100 rep decision [migrated]
I was given -100 reputation for this sound mathematical post https://mathoverflow.net/questions/473947?noredirect=1#comment1231454_473947
This is excessive and I want to dispute this decision, how do ...
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Does downvoting reputation loss get regained when an answer is deleted? [duplicate]
Obviously, reputation is regained when a question or answer is deleted. And reputation is subtracted (-1) on my downvote- as in when I downvote a post.
But what happens if I downvoted a answer, lost 2 ...
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The alignment of rep and badges is off on the top bar
I'm not sure if this has been raised elsewhere, but on the user awards in the top bar, the alignment of text for the reputation and badges is off, and it's a bit annoying:
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Why is a user's reputation re-calculated when one of their posts is deleted?
When a user's question or answer gets deleted, their reputation gets re-calculated.
Like if my answer gets an upvote, and then gets deleted, I lose my ten rep that I gained from the upvote. I guess I ...
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Why doesn't reputation show under usernames on MathOverflow? [closed]
I landed on a MathOverflow page from the Hot Network Questions (HNQ) section and I noticed that user reputation doesn't show under their username. why is that?
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What happens to a user's pending edits when they subsequently gain enough reputation for their edits to be applied without peer review? [duplicate]
For example, on the Law stack 1,000 reputation earns one a privilege so that
Edits to other users’ posts are applied immediately
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In addition, users with this privilege level can also begin ...
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Is it allowed to give all of one's reputation points away via bounty? [duplicate]
If a person wants to leave, would they be able to give away loads or all of their points through bounties (reward existing answer mainly), or would that be flagged as some sort of offense and shut ...
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Not getting reputation for deleted-then-revised answer? [closed]
One of my answers was deleted for not having enough context around a provided link. After revising and posting an answer with more explanation, I still have not received the reputation for the answer.
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Protected questions should have a higher reputation requirement for editing and approving edits
When a question is protected it requires a certain minimum reputation to answer it. At least on politics SE this is mostly used for questions that are highly politized or opioniated. And it works in ...
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User activity reputation graph missing on Cross Validated
Typically there was a user reputation cumulative graph on the activity page.
For example, mine for Meta Stack Exchange looks like this on Feb. 28, 2024 https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/341152/carl:...
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Long loading time on reputation page
When I open my Stack Overflow profile page (when logged in) it takes a long time for the page to load. The first request takes at least 7 seconds. This is easily reproducible. It happens in all ...
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Downvoted migrated question still affecting reputation [duplicate]
I asked this question on Ask Different. It was admittedly off-topic and appropriately migrated to Stack Overflow. However, the downvote I received before it was migrated remains as does the hit to ...
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