Rep cap kicking in a little too early?

Question

I know there are a ton of existing questions about this, but they were all from before the March 2010 Recalc when the rules were changed, so I'm wondering if this might be a new bug.

Currently my rep history for today on Stack Overflow shows 21 votes and 3 acceptances, but only +235 rep, which means only +190 for upvotes and therefore only 19 were counted.

The top question also shows +40 rep for +5 votes, so the rep cap definitely kicked in somewhere. I didn't issue any downvotes or do anything else that would have artificially lowered the cap.

Accepted answers are immune to rep cap now and downvotes/revoked upvotes are supposed to be compensated for by newer upvotes, so this looks like a bug to me.

Yes or yes?

Proof http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/3622/repcap.png

Addendum: I actually did check the rep report, and Jeff's answer actually demonstrates quite clearly that this actually is reproducible - the total rep on the rep report adds up to 245, not 235. There's definitely a bug somewhere.

Answer 1

This case will be handled as part of the new reputation changes, when a upvote is reversed that affected you rep cap, it will be adjusted accordingly within 5 minutes.

Answer 2

I was going to post this as a comment on Jeff's answer but it got too long...

By comparing the reputation audit with the screenshot, it would appear that the 'recent activity' list is cached in some way, and not refreshed with newer data. One possible cause of the discrepancy in this case is that the OP received an upvote that was then retracted within the window, and then a subsequent upvote put him over the rep cap (but with the earlier vote retracted, he's back below it again.)

I can point to another example, that only developers would be able to see: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/recent/132636?StartDate=2010-03-12&EndDate=2010-03-12.

What happened here is a huge number of serial upvotes that were later removed -- however, the recent activity screen shows the state of the system before the recalculation.

Reputation audit for 2010-03-12:

 2     37495 (10)
 2     37495 (10)
 2     29855 (10)
 2     42089 (10)
 2     42098 (10)
 2     42099 (10)
 1     42099 (15)
 2     42092 (10)
 2     42099 (10)
 2     42098 (10)
 2     42099 (10)
 2     42098 (10)
 2     42099 (10)
 2     42098 (10)
 2     42099 (10)
 2     42092 (10)
 2     42092 (10)
 2     42089 (10)
 2     42089 (10)
 3     42089 (-2)
-- 2010-03-12 rep +193  = 10005     

Answer 3

Have you determined whether some of the upvoted questions are CW?

Are you sure all the votes are for "today"?

Answer 4

Use https://stackoverflow.com/reputation to validate.

I just did (developers, but not diamond moderators, have access to this per user) and it is showing me this for 4-14, for you:

 2   2619185 (10)
 2   2571516 (10)
 2   2520324 (10)
 1   2630271 (15)
 2   1911327 (10)
 2   2638692 (10)
 2   2638692 (10)
 2   2638692 (10)
 2   2638790 (10)
 2   2638919 (10)
 1   2604652 (15)
 2   2639564 (10)
 1   2639499 (15)
 2   2639499 (10)
 2   2639564 (10)
 2   2638919 (10)
 2   2639499 (10)
 2   2204535 (10)
 2   2640503 (10)
 2   2640503 (10)
 2   2640503 (10)
 2   2640503 (10)
 2   2640503 (10)

Answer 5

Have you deleted one of your answers with one upvote?