On my Math.SE account, it says "user was removed" and 5 reputation was deducted. What does this mean?
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1Questions on the operation of any site should be referred to the site Meta. In this case you should ask on meta.math.se– user226287Commented Feb 9, 2014 at 9:42
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appreciated for the support!– TerminalCommented Feb 9, 2014 at 9:43
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1A user who upvoted one of your questions got removed, thus the upvote and the reputation you received for it got removed as well.– l4mpiCommented Feb 9, 2014 at 9:43
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This in no way is a slight to you (although I understand it is irritating for you), it is just an effect of what happens when annother user is deleted (for whatever reason). It is as if they never existed– Richard TingleCommented Feb 9, 2014 at 11:11
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@RichardTingle there are exceptions, e.g. if user who voted a lot is removed, the dev team manually transfer his votes to Community account so they're not lost... but in most cases there's no point to bother.– Shadow WizardCommented Feb 9, 2014 at 12:15
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A user who upvoted for one of your posts had their account deleted (this could happen due to several reasons, such as violating TOS, abusive voting behavior etc.). As a result, all the votes they cast were undone, and the reputation you got from them (or lost because of them) was revoked. This question discusses this in more detail.