When I downvote an answer, it costs me 1 reputation point. When that answer is deleted, the reputation cost due to downvoting is refunded. When that happens, every once in a while I get a ‘+1’ badge appear on top of the ‘Achievements’ icon:
However, when I click the icon, I don’t see anything telling me how I earned that point back: no specific notification item appears in the Achievements menu. I have to scour through the ‘reputation’ tab on each site I am registered on to even take a guess, since there usually isn’t a reputation change item in there either (I can usually see one on Retrocomputing, but not on Stack Overflow; I don’t know what it depends on). I have to infer that from what I remember having downvoted before. Which often doesn’t work either; if I cast the downvote long enough ago, I may have already forgotten it. Since I am left no wiser than before, the whole notification seems like pointless distraction.
Can something be done about this? Either:
- Tell me which answer was deleted, or at least on which site it was, or
- Suppress the notification altogether.
javascript:(n => { n.textContent = '+\u221e'; n.classList.remove('d-none') })(document.querySelector('.js-achievements-button > span.js-unread-count'))Oh, that was easy.