I used to have 91 rep on Area 51, 51 start rep + 40. This is what's shown in the /reputations
page, and the items in my profile also add up to 40. But Area 51 now shows I have only 27 rep (which means I can't even comment).
1 Answer
Your account was the target of malicious down-voting. A single user used 3 accounts to issue 63 "not a good example" votes against you over a 2-day span. The unusual votes were automatically detected and deleted, so your reputation has returned to normal. The two sock puppet accounts were merged into the original one.
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Thanks for the clarification. But isn't it still strange that area51.stackexchange.com/reputations showed such a grossly different number than my profile? I mean, the calculation in my profile was correct, but the total number as used everywhere on the site wasn't. Jan 26, 2011 at 20:21
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@Felix that might be down to caching I think. Or has that been ruled out?– PekkaJan 26, 2011 at 20:26
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That makes sense ... not sure how I could rule it out -- I understood the comment by benny above in a way that the /reputations page kind of circumvents the cache and does a recalc to immediate effect, but as I read it now again, it doesn't say that this is the case at all. Jan 26, 2011 at 20:27
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1@Felix The discrepancy was caused by a bug (which we're fixing now). The bug was that if multiple accounts maliciously targeted a single account in one day, the rep recalc was only performed after deleting votes cast by the first account, instead of after all the malicious votes were deleted. In your case, since your account endured a second day of malicious down-voting (by just one user this time), another rep recalc was performed, so your reputation happened to correct itself on its own.– EmmettJan 26, 2011 at 21:02
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@Emmett: while you're fixing bugs, I have another one for you: The check mark under my original answer does not disapper (I simply clicked the checkmark of your post without removing my checkmark first) and now I see both as "accepted". Clicking on the checkmark of my answer, however, reveals a "Found no accepted answers to undo" message, while trying to delete my answer results in a "You cannot delete this accepted answer" message. Jan 26, 2011 at 21:17
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1@Felix Yup I noticed that too. To facilitate better indexing for changes to search that we're rolling out soon, we changed the way that accepted answers are saved. Clearly this caused some bugs.. this'll be fixed shortly.– EmmettJan 26, 2011 at 21:27
http://sitename.com/reputation
- area51.stackexchange.com/reputation