I appear to have lost around 200 reputation sometime today. It looked like someone had systematically up-voted a bunch of my questions and answers from what I saw before it went; it could be a big recalc, but I don'think I'd be affected much by losing rept from deleted content.
I'm assuming this is what's happened, but only because I remember being really pleased that I'd finally become an established user and now I'm not again. But no message was shown me, nor does anything show up in my rept list. It's just gone.
Now I totally understand that the value of my investments may go down as well as up, it's just quite jarring to discover it by chance and without any record of it. So I'd like to echo the feature-request made by animuson in reply to #123319: Upcoming Reputation History Changes on Thursday:
Currently, when things get deleted, they just disappear from your history. That's not very helpful, especially concerning reputation. When my reputation randomly drops by 40, it would be nice to be able to see that in my history. Would it be possible to make this change show up in the history?
Edit: I can see that highlighting which irregular votes have been spotted and removed (and, thus, tacitly pointing out any irregular votes that had not been spotted) causes some concern. But it still means users suffer some confusion with having seen they'd gained a load of reputation and then just having it vanish.
Removing the serial-upvotes lines from the rept history, then adding a single line reading something like
0 Reputation readjustment after irregular votes removed
would have clarified that, even if which votes had been removed were not specified. Just some indication in the UX is all I'm looking for really.
That's part of this change, when a post is deleted you'll see that in your reputation history tab.
- There's no need for a feature request, it's already being implemented. As for the serial upvotes, you'll just have to ignore them. Usually it's pretty easy to tell when it happens. It happened to me just yesterday and I figured out that I was going to lose 80 reputation coming up. Those votes actually get reversed, like they never happened.