Vote undo shouldn't subtract 10 if you've exceeded number of votes for rep limit

Question

Just noticed this, and I'm filing it as a bug although feel free to change it to feature-request rather than status-bydesign.

I was nearing my reputation gain limit for the day, posted an answer and received enough votes to take me "above" the reputation cap. My summary showed 7 upvotes for that answer, with 50 reputation earned. I refreshed the page and it dropped to 6 upvotes with 40 reputation earned and I'm now 10 points away from the daily reputation limit.

Clearly, someone who's vote counted towards my limit retracted said vote and their 10 points were taken away. I think a recalc would make more sense - I've clearly gained enough votes to hit the limit, wouldn't it be smarter for the system to figure out that I've still got at least 2 votes left to count towards my rep?

Answer 1

As part of the recent reputation changes, your reputation will be adjusted within 5 minutes in this case. If a vote cast on the same day that affected you hitting the reputation cap (i.e. which actually gave you rep that day) is deleted, your rep will be queued for an adjustment so you'll get back to the cap if that's what needs to happen.

Note that if a vote that was cast on a previous day was removed, the subtraction will still continue to persist, as it's as if you never received the vote on the day it was originally cast.

Answer 2

You can achieve this by flagging one of your posts and requesting a recalc to a moderator.

That would regenerate your reputation from scratch and would take you back to 200 for the day.

Keep in mind that you could lose reputation from deleted posts from other days, you can check your reputation here: https://stackoverflow.com/reputation (replace stackoverflow for the trilogy site you want)

Answer 3

This seems to have been a different problem than I'd originally thought, so it's been posted as a new bug. The remainder of this answer can probably be ignored, but is left here for reference.

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The adjustement described in Nick Craver's answer does not seem to be working displaying correctly:

This should sum to 215, but it sums only to 205, or 190 without the accept points.

That said, it's hard to debug what's going on here and be totally sure that the issue was that downvote. It look as if +10 was latter added for the upvote just after the downvote but 10 was somehow removed from the scores before the downvote; previously the scores had looked like this:

Note that in the first image above we have a total of 190 points for upvotes before the downvote, but in the second we have a total of 200 points before the downvote.

Is there any way to get the vote-by-vote timeline back again? I saw it once for part of the day, as you see in the second image, but I cannot get it back again. (Had I known this information would vanish forever I would have captured part of the titles in the screenshot.)

The log for the day from /reputation shows:

 2     22183 (10)
 2     22183 (10)
 2     22204 (10)
 2     22183 (10)
 2     22204 (10)
 2     14016 (10)
 2     22210 (10)
 2     22210 (10)
 2     22183 (10)
 2     22183 (10)
 2     22197 (10)
 2     22200 (10)
 2     22210 (10)
 2     22210 (10)
 2     22210 (10)
 2     22210 (10)
 2     22204 (10)
 2     22183 (10)
 2     22210 (10)
 2     22183 [10]
 2     22210 [0]
 2     22210 [0]
 2     22207 [0]
 2     22210 [0]
 2     22197 [0]
 2     22210 [0]
 2     22200 [0]
 1     22200 [15]
 2     22183 [0]
 2     22200 [0]
 2     22204 [0]
 2     14016 [0]
-- 2021-11-09 rep +215  = 18790  

I'm not entirely sure how to interpret the above data (the meaning of parentheses vs. square brackets is particularly mysterious), but this properly shows 215, my reputation total as displayed in the header is currently 18,790, and 18790 - 18575 = 215. So perhaps the problem on my user page is a display issue?