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I downvoted an answer, and it was deleted.

Why don't (or shouldn't) I get the reputation back?

If I don't get it back right away, then how come the Community User owns that many downvotes?

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  • I think it is restored with rep recalcs, but can't recall for sure.
    – Ian Elliott
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 16:38
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    Hey, if you are talking about my answer...I'll undelete it, you can remove the downvote, and I'll re delete. Everybody wins.
    – jjnguy
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 16:41
  • In this question: stackoverflow.com/questions/1166135/…
    – jjnguy
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 16:42
  • P.S. My answer wasn't that bad...I was just mistaken.
    – jjnguy
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 16:42
  • Yes, I am.
    – SLaks
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 16:43
  • Well, it is back. :P I kinda feel like this is cheating, but I'm ok with it.
    – jjnguy
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 16:44
  • Now we can pretend that that disaster of an answer never happened.
    – jjnguy
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 16:45
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    Glad we got to the bottom of that one!
    – Ian Elliott
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 16:52
  • How far will some of you go for 1 point of reputation! There is something distinctly pavlovian about it. I have an image of dog biscuits in my mind for some reason..
    – user131831
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 17:09
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    @polyglot: Ah, sorry 'bout that - you probably don't remember, but when you were a kid i'd give you a biscuit every time someone mentioned "rep".
    – Shog9
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 17:26
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    I want a round number of reputation (looks better)
    – SLaks
    Commented Jul 22, 2009 at 19:00
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    @SLaks: Just downvote another random answer!
    – Georg Schölly
    Commented Nov 30, 2009 at 7:51

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You will when your reputation is recalculated. But note, almost everyone loses rep overall when their rep is recalced because you also lose reputation gained from answers to now deleted questions.

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You will now get the reputation back within 5 minutes of the deletion. In this case we update the rep of those affected as part of a background job, this is part of the recent reputation changes.

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