Getting unexpected bonus for accepting self-answered answers on MSO

Question

I had a number of questions on MSO without an answer. I added an answer to two of them and got awarded 2 points reputation. The blog entry Accept your own answers says that won't happen. So does the answer to Do you get reputation for self-answered questions?

Is it a bug or a change of policy?

(I can't test SO; I don't have questions there without answers over there.)

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I goofed — it was too early in the morning. Ignore this question. Those who answered get their rep, though.

Answer 1

You accepted 4 answers today; 2 were self-answers and gave you 0 points:

• SO broke a working URL by mapping parentheses () to %28%29
• Other duplicates of 'What should main() return in C and C++'?

It was the other two answers that you also accepted that gave you +2 points each:

• https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/202746/merge-tags-timestamp-and-timestamps/202751#202751 by Lance Roberts
• Should the 'close as off-topic' menu provide a write-in option for the alternative site? by jonsca

You can easily see this on your reputation tab:

Answer 2

Looking at your reputation you got 2 rep for accepting the answer to https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/202746/merge-tags-timestamp-and-timestamps/202751#202751 and Should the 'close as off-topic' menu provide a write-in option for the alternative site?

You didn't get it for accepting your own answer, which shows up as giving you 0 reputation:

Your cached reputation on the User Reputation Leagues, from yesterday, is 5,525, which implies that the reputation tab in your profile is correct.