On all meta sites except this one, the meta reputation is the same as on the main site.
However being the "super meta" site, reputation here is independent. All good.
Since many times the questions here are closely related to the asker's profile on the main site and/or his reputation there seeing the reputation on the main site is a very common action.
For example in this question here on Meta I want to know the OP reputation on the main site to know whether he means full edits, or suggested edits.
Currently to do this I have to go to the OP meta profile, and look for his Stack Overflow account data in there. Not the end of the world, but would be lot better if we got such thing:
Design might need a little tweak, maybe give bit more height to the whole box but hope you can see the point.
Users without account on Stack Overflow will have only one line of course.
2,387 / 292
? I don't think anyone cares about the badges a poster has, and I don't think it'd be that hard to do as it wouldn't require resizing the template. Also, I'd like to see someone's MSO rep separate from their SO rep, so don't like the idea of showing a combined reputation score as long as MSO represents both StackExchange in general and SO – Rachel Nov 1 '12 at 15:23