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So I logged into SO this morning and noticed my rep score was a few points higher than yesterday, but I could find no indication of why, so naturally I went to /reputation. and there noticed that my rep score was this.

 3   3286270 (-2)
 2   3291010 (5)
 2   3291010 (5)
 2   3291010 (5)
 1   3291027 (2)
 2   3291010 (5)
-- 2010-07-20 rep +20   = 698       
 2   3286270 (10)
-- 2010-07-23 rep +10   = 708       

** total rep 708 :)

Yet when I look on SO it is this. 689 != 708 http://michaelsarchet.com/images/repscore.png

So my question is am I misunderstanding something here or is something up?

*Question that I got rep on today

Set linq return property to null, but no votes, interesting.

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  • It's by design :( There are different ways where/how the score is saved/calculated/cached. Likely with performance in mind. You can flag a moderator to request for a "recalc". This is likely never going to be solved. See also: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43609/…
    – user138231
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:46
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    BTW: you have one upvote and one downvote on that answer. So net score is 0.
    – user138231
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:48
  • Interesting, so they are all correct and none of them correct then, eh?
    – msarchet
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:49
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    Do you want a recalc right now or would you like to keep it this way for a little while for observation?
    – mmyers
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:50
  • @BalusC and @Grace Note, see now that makes sense, I wish I could see up and down votes on my own answers.
    – msarchet
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:50
  • @msarchet Your displayed score is cached, since it's shown constantly all over the site, but the /reputation score should be accurate
    – Michael Mrozek
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:51
  • @mmyers, I'd like to watch it for a bit and see what happens
    – msarchet
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:51
  • @Michael Mrozek, right makes the most sense
    – msarchet
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:51
  • @msarchet: you can instantly see up/downvote totals when you've at least 1000 reputation.
    – user138231
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:53
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    You can always see the upvotes and downvotes, albeit requiring manual calculation but regardless of reputation, using the time machine!
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:53
  • @Grace: wow, how did you know about that hidden feature? Is it somewhere linked on the question itself?
    – user138231
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:56
  • @BalusC Jeff had a big announcement for its testing a month ago. I don't recall when it ever got pushed to the other sites, but it certainly was. It isn't linked anywhere, you still need to manually enter it.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 16:00
  • @Grace Note, that may be the best thing I've ever seen on SO. @BalusC, I know I'm getting there only 292 more rep to go!
    – msarchet
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 16:00
  • @Grace: thanks! I should peek a bit more often on Meta than only once a day or two ;)
    – user138231
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 16:07
  • @Grace, BalusC, msarchet: There's a greasemonkey script if you use timeline enough to want a link for it
    – Michael Mrozek
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 17:05

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The /reputation page was created so that you could see what reputation you should have. Sometimes that and your actual reputation don't match due to things like deleted questions, answers and other things in the system that aren't automatically reflected in your current reputation.

If you feel that your /reputation number is significantly far off from your actual number, flag one of your posts for moderator attention requesting a reputation recalc. They would be happy to bring those two numbers in line.

Personally, I'm fine if the numbers are off by a little, but when they are off by over 100, I like to get my rep recalculated.

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  • @Chahca102 these are my sentiments, I just wondered what was going on.
    – msarchet
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:52
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    While email works as suggested here, flagging one of your posts for moderator attention works well (provided you haven't expired all of your posts, at any rate).
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:54
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    Actually, I'd say flagging is the preferred method. Much quicker and you don't bother the developers unnecessarily.
    – mmyers
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 15:57
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    don't forget deleted users whose votes are also all deleted.
    – Jeff Atwood
    Commented Jul 23, 2010 at 17:13
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This is typically due to votes on deleted questions and answers, which are accurately reflected on /reputation but not on the cached score. A rep-recalc will fix the discrepancy.

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