Questions tagged [reputation]
Reputation is a 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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Users with more than 1,000,000 reputation make scrollbars in UI
On Linux, superfluous scrollbars may be visible in the UI at:
https://stackexchange.com/leagues/1/alltime/stackoverflow/
I imagine we didn't have any 1M+ rep users when the stylesheets for this page ...
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When is reputation actually regained from deleting a downvoted answer/question?
According to many posts here (like this accepted answer) you will regain reputation when you delete your downvoted answer to a question.
I just deleted a downvoted answer to test and the score I have ...
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What does "not currently ranked" mean?
When viewing a user in the reputation leagues, what does it mean when the user is noted as "Not currently ranked"?
Note that the not currently ranked message is being seen on stackoverflow....
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Is it time to end the allure of acquiring SO "rep points"?
Context:
This page directs any who would answer a low-quality question with (abridged):
Not all questions can or should be answered here ... avoid trying to answer questions which...
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Reason for lost rep where multiple posts were removed in short timeframe
I just lost rep for these seven posts that were removed:
My initial assumption was that these were edits I made when I was a <2k rep user, and they were all associated with a single deleted ...
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What is the distribution of voting fraud over user rep and account age?
Since voting fraud is a big focus of the discussion of the 1-rep voting experiment, I'm curious to get some more informed estimates of how much more voting fraud would occur if users could vote at 1-...
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Why is the Half Bounty awarded on Post Answer but not showing in Reputation Score?
This just seems like strange behavior on SO. Can someone explain?
If an answer gets awarded the half bounty (automatically) when the OP neglects to award the bounty after the grace period ends, ...
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Reputation changes after +100 site bonus displayed wrong. Upvotes temporarily displayed with 120 too much rep
I recently achieved more than 200 rep. This triggered the +100 site bonus for stackoverflow, meta, and superuser. When I checked my stackoverflow reputation activity I saw my latest upvote rep gain to ...
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Why doesn't the OP earn any reputation when their discussion becomes upvoted?
People on SE earn reputation when their answer gets upvoted/accepted. But why doesn't the OP earn any reputation when their discussion becomes upvoted?
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Only honor reputation earned on open pages when calculating Collection Leaderboard scores
In recent months, I've observed a revitalized energy to answer new low-hanging fruit duplicate (and otherwise closable) questions tagged with php.
I am a Recognized Member of the PHP Collective and I ...
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How could dealing with bad tag wikis be improved for <20k user?
Sometimes, I find tag information that is marketing talk, or in other ways, problematic. I usually try to fix it. But, being a below 2k user, I frequently cannot make an edit suggestion, and as there ...
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How can a voting correction reach -6060 points?
Yesterday, a vote correction was applied to my account, and I don't understand how a vote correction could reach -6060 points.
Does it mean only one person votes for me (without serial voting)? The ...
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Should we prioritize in-review suggest-edits?
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Reviewing for a lower-reputation user is frustrating. When reviewing with less than 2000 reputation, one has to do a suggest-edit, when trying to improve a post.
This leads to several issues:
I ...
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Explain why "voting corrected" may only include one vote in the Help Center article
Today I asked question Serial Voting Bug? which was correctly closed as a duplicate of -10 Serial voting was reversed.
I consider myself a guy who reads documentation before asking a question. ...
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Why didn't I receive the association bonus for Stack Overflow?
I read this question who seems to have a problem similar to mine, but the answer just points to the fact that the problem didn't exist in the first place.
It seems to me that, in my case, the problem ...
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