I came across this page. Why does every user on this page have a negative weekly change?
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7Bounties. You can see their reputation history on their profile.– Andrew Barber ModCommented May 21, 2013 at 4:53
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Thanks for your prompt reply! @AndrewBarber– MingyuCommented May 21, 2013 at 4:54
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Also, there can be some serial upvoting reversed.– acdcjuniorCommented May 21, 2013 at 5:37
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1And on occasion, a user gets deleted and has all up-votes (and all down-votes I expect) reversed.– Pieter GeerkensCommented May 21, 2013 at 5:44
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1@AndrewBarber think it's better to post this as answer, maybe adding some more possible causes for negative reputation change.– Shadow WizardCommented May 21, 2013 at 9:18
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1You have an answer here.. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7237/how-does-reputation-work– Raghu Srikanth ReddyCommented May 21, 2013 at 11:16
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First, in your specific case, the only reputation activity those users had so far this week was setting a 100 point bounty. You probably could also find many with -50 for the week (probably even more than the -100's) Of course, two 50 point bounties would also add up to -100.
There are other reasons users could have negative net changes, and it's possible these could total -100, or any other value. But the -100 is 'special' due to what I noted above.
Other possibilties (which could of course occur in combination)
- The user was down voted for more points than up voted.
- Another user who had up voted numerous posts of theirs was deleted, or the votes were invalidated.
- Posts the user edited for 2 points each were deleted.
- Posts the user had recently had up voted were deleted.
- Votes were reversed through the automatic serial vote detection tool.
- A user that had upvoted their posts was deleted, thus undoing their votes.
answered May 21, 2013 at 17:12
