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Today I see an user's reputation tab, where the user received +201 reputation from upvote.
Regarding reputation cap, as I aware we can still earn rep beyond the cap by winning a bounty, accepting an answer, or having one of your answers accepted.
But the user already received 20 upvotes and what was the possible way for the last +1 reputation?
Is that, any of the answer downvoted by the user was deleted or something else? I want to understand the scenario behind the +1 reputation.
What you see is the result of a downvote given on an answer. That is a private reputation event and it doesn't show up except for the user themselves; the downvote costs one reputation which is compensated by an upvote; a public event which does show up for everybody.
You can see a similar thing happening in my reputation history on December 4th, 2019. For you all, there's a peculiar +1:
but when I view my own profile, I can see it's compensating a -1:
(There's something else going on here with the daily totals, the 203 is 'right' but the 204 is not: Wrong daily reputation total on profile page)
