Add a place to view the total reputation a user would have achieved if there was no rep cap (daily-reputation-limit). It would be a good measure to see who are the ones that answer even if they have reached the rep cap.
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8Why would we care about that? What would you do with the information? How would this improve the site?– BartCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 11:59
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It would encourage people to answe even if they have reached the rep cap, I suggest to put it a place (Not in the profile directly)– SawCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:01
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We already have top-20 user lists per tag, where you users ranked by total score for both questions and answers for that tag. That's plenty of info to compare users that give the best answers in an area.– Martijn PietersCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:01
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I won't add any meta question ever, you have nothing to do except downvoting :(– SawCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:01
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4You just happen to ask for things that are not really needed. Please don't take it personally and don't let it stop you from suggesting new ideas.– Shadow WizardCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:03
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1@MohammadSakherSawan Most users I know who regularly hit the rep cap are not stopped by that to begin with. They tend to be fairly active far beyond the cap. And on the rare occasions that I hit the cap here on Meta, I keep on answering regardless. I don't think this proposal adds all that much. And what's with this "I won't add any Meta question ever"? If you make a feature request, you can't expect it to go without any questions or discussion.– BartCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:04
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Your question isn't very constructive, it doesn't identify a real need for your feature request. Is there an actual lack of answers from people reaching the rep cap? When reaching the rep cap, you still get points from your answer being accepted. Looking at the reputation ranks on SO I see plenty of people going well over 200 points, so they are clearly not demotivated by the rep cap.– Martijn PietersCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:04
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1@MohammadSakherSawan: See the FAQ; votes on MSO are different from the regular Stack Exchange websites. People are not (just) voting on the quality of your question, they are also voting on the proposal itself. Thus a downvote could mean: "I don't think this feature request should be implemented".– Martijn PietersCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:05
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Thank you all, I am sorry, I will keep trying to make stackoverflow better, but I am very disappointed, yesterday I have got 20+ down votes for a feature request is not very useful.– SawCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:07
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Thanx @MartijnPieters, I see the point– SawCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:08
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Meta rep means nothing. I've got 18k+ at the moment and it doesn't buy me anything. (I keep trying to get Starbucks to accept it, but they won't) Don't get too worked up over it. You win some, you lose some. Especially with downvotes sometimes being used to indicate disagreement here on Meta.– BartCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:09
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2Don't worry about your reputation on Meta, it's largely useless here anyway. :-)– Martijn PietersCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:09
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@Bart, You mean that you won't block me if I have big downvotes for some question :)– SawCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:10
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3@MohammadSakherSawan I can guarantee you that I won't block you. Because I as a user don't have that power. (Nor would I want to block you at all). But the automatic post-ban rules here on Meta seem to be far more relaxed than on the main site. If you don't have a significant number of highly downvoted questions/proposals, you won't be in any danger.– BartCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:11
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7That said, next time you make a feature request, think of a couple of things. "How does it improve the site?", "Is the effort it will take the developers worth it?", "Is there a real need for this?", "What problem does it solve?", "Has this been proposed before in any form?". Etc. Once you can convincingly answer these questions for yourself, you have a far better idea of whether or not it's worth the request and how it might go over.– BartCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 12:14
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You can see this leaderboard already on SE Data Explorer ranked by uncapped reputation and ranked by lost reputation potential.
You can use this if you want to check the stat for any given person.
Apparently, Jon Skeet would have above 1,742,966.
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1Just one note, the data there is not live. Looking in the results they appear to be about three days old according to the reputation, however according to the Data Explorer faq page: "How frequently is Stack Exchange Data Explorer updated? Data is updated monthly." Commented Dec 25, 2012 at 13:48
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1@ShaWizDowArd Actually, perhaps that FAQ is out of date. I think it is updated weekly.– BartCommented Dec 25, 2012 at 15:07
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@Bart yep good point, I left comment for Nick to fix this. Commented Dec 25, 2012 at 15:12
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Here's a userscript for calculating what I call "waffle" rep (the rep you don't get because of the cap).
Try it!
answered Dec 25, 2012 at 14:04
