How do I audit my reputation?

Question

If I am concerned that my reputation score is incorrect, how can I audit it, or get a report of a detailed breakdown of my reputation?

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Answer 1

Make sure you are logged in, and visit:

https://sitename.com/reputation

For example:

• https://stackoverflow.com/reputation
• https://cooking.stackexchange.com/reputation
• https://serverfault.com/reputation
• https://gaming.stackexchange.com/reputation
• https://superuser.com/reputation
• https://meta.stackexchange.com/reputation

This will give you a detailed audit / report of your reputation over time, reflecting the current voting values. It will look something like this:

 2     29812 (2)
-- 2009-11-15 rep +245  = 28647     
 2     29877 (10)
 3     29886 (-2)
 1     29877 (15)
 2     29886 (10)
 2     27958 (7)
 2     29905 [0]
 1     29905 (15)
 3     29884 (-2)
 2     29521 (2)
 2     31021 (5)
 2     29878 [0]
 9     28065 (550)
-- 2009-11-16 rep +275  = 28922     
 1     29915 (15)
 3     29882 (-2)

_{note that this is not an actual, valid report, just an example that I kind of cut and pasted into}

The first number is the vote type, where common vote types are:

• 1 = accepted answer (to or from you)
• 2 = upvote (to you)
• 3 = downvote (to or from you)
• 4 = penalty for post flagged as offensive
• 8 = bounty grant (from you)
• 9 = bounty award (to you)
• 12 = penalty for post flagged as spam
• 16 = edit suggestion approved

The second number is the post ID that the vote was on. Remember that votes on community wiki posts do not generate rep, so those votes will not appear here. (Note that some vote types like offensive, spam, and bounties apply to any post regardless of its community wiki status)

The third number is the value of the vote. Note that the value may be capped if you reach the daily upvote reputation limit. If the value is capped, it will appear in brackets like [3] so.

The date boundaries are printed whenever your reputation changed in a given day(s). It contains the current date, the amount your rep changed (up or down) since the last time, and the total amount of rep you have earned to date.

At the bottom of the page, there is a button that says Trigger Reputation Recalc. This will force the reputation value stored in the system to be recalculated based on the audit, correcting any errors. Your reputation may change significantly if you have many posts that have been deleted or if many upvotes have been reverted after reaching the +200 cap. Since this can be demanding on the servers, and recalcs are normally reserved for gross errors or reputation scoring changes, a recalc can only be performed once every 24 hours; for more information, see Self-instigated rep recalc. Note that this is no longer required as the system now accurately keeps track of reputation changes caused by events such as deletion of posts or users.

As of December 2013, there is no "Trigger Reputation Recalc" button anymore. Recalc is performed automatically only, in case of reputation inconsistency that does not resolve itself please file a new bug report.

Answer 2

I've seen a few people confused about the new rep-reports, so I will try to give an example of both question-vote changes and daily-cap changes in one fell swoop:

-- 2009-06-29 rep +129  = 986  
 2   1061283 (5)    # question upvote, used to be +10, now +5
 2   1061283 (5)
 1   1061350 (2)    # I accepted an answer
 2   1061283 (5)
 2   1061283 (5)
 2   1061380 (10)   # upvote on my answer
 2   1061660 (10)
 2   1061660 (10)
 2   1061660 (10)
 2   1060244 (10)
 2   1061380 (10)
 1   1061660 (15)   # someone accepted my answer
 2   1061660 (10)
 1   1061380 (15)   # someone accepted my answer
 2   1061660 (10)
 2   1061660 (10)
 3           (-1)   # I will never tell you who I downvoted!
 2   1062027 (10)
 2   1061660 (10)
 2   1062860 (10)
 3           (-1)
 2   1062894 (10)
 2   1062894 (10)
 2   1060376 (10)
 2   1062860 (10)
 2   1062996 (10)
 1   1062996 (15)   # someone accepted my answer
 2   1060376 (10)
 2   1046207 [2]    # upvote on my answer, 2 points "fill" daily cap
 2   1061283 [0]    # upvote on my answer, after hitting the daily cap :(((
 2   1060376 [0]
 2   1062860 [0]
 2   1047514 [0]
 2   1047514 [0]
 2   1062860 [0]
-- 2009-06-30 rep +247  = 1233

Involved in daily rep-cap:
Question upvotes   4x  5 =  20
Answer upvotes    25x 10 = 250
They downvoted     0x -2 =   0
I downvoted        2x -1 =  -2
                           ---
                           268
Apply rep cap:             200

Not involved in daily rep-cap:
I accepted         1x  2 =   2
They accepted      3x 15 =  45
Arr, bounty        0x  _ =   0
                           ---
                            47

Total rep gained that day: 247

I don't know if all of this is intended or will be how it is in the end, but that's how I interpret my whole rep-report now. It makes sense of the numbers I've seen. In particular, the real rep is counted in a linear fashion, and I've stripped that away in my table.

Answer 3

Usually, the reputation tab on your profile is good enough for audits, just that a few things are hidden by default. Here's how to show them:

1. Go to the reputation tab on your profile

2. Click the "show removed posts" checkbox at the bottom

You should see an account of wherever you lost rep due to deleted posts, etc (i.e, non-public stuff).

Answer 4

In response to dmckee's post:

#!/usr/bin/perl -nw
use strict;
our ($caps, $capped);
++$caps if /\[/ && !$capped++;
$capped = 0 if /^--/;
END {print "Days capped = $caps\n"}

If that script is correct, then after the new metrics come in, I only need to cap my rep twice more to get my Epic badge. :-D (On SO, not on meta. :-P)

Answer 5

In response to tvan's comment, I whipped up a really-weird-audit-format to JSON converter in PHP. Right now it will output something like this:

[
   {
      "date":"bonuses ",
      "rep":""
   },
   {
      "date":"2009-05-18",
      "rep":"10"
   },
   {
      "date":"2009-05-26",
      "rep":"25"
   },
   {
      "date":"blahblahblah",
      "rep":"youcannotseethisblah"
   }
]

I might update it to include more detailed information (poke me enough and I'll do it, I promise :D)

You can find the source code here on gist.github. Put that in a directory, then take your audit and put it in a file called audit.txt in the same directory. Run the script and you have your JSON. (If you look at the script, it can also be EASILY changed to output XML :D)

PS: Run the script and pass in debug as a GET parameter will get you debug info.