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29 questions linked to/from Revisiting the rep cap (yes, again)
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The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working? What's not?
Update
Thank you everyone for the feedback you have provided. At this time, we will work through the feedback we have received to help us determine where to take our research on reputation next.
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What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap?
There has been a lot of talk about the daily reputation cap and what counts and what doesn't count and so on. But why is there a cap at all? I've seen lots of questions about whether the cap number ...
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Diminishing returns / non-linear reputation from “great” answers
Over time I realized a very annoying property of the Stack Overflow reputation system: Easy answers to popular question are rewarded with a lot more reputation points than actually great answers. In ...
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I think I have too much reputation: nearly all of it comes from one quickly-fired-off answer
About a year ago, I answered this question.
And lots of people seem to like it. But it seems strange to me that so much of my reputation comes from just this one answer. I get 10-30 reputation per ...
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Allow rep lost to the repcap to be used for bounties
This was prompted by this chat message:
@PearsonArtPhoto We're each losing at least 140 rep today due to rep cap ... we should put in motion idea to be able to spend excess rep on bounties, maybe ...
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Does it make sense to have a negative rep cap for Meta posts?
I've been thinking (and posting) a lot about voting and one issue that's come up over and over is the chilling effect that downvoting can have on Meta discussions and feature-requests.
Downvoting is ...
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Shouldn't rep gains from old questions & answers eventually stop (or at least reduce)?
I see profiles of Jon Skeet, BalusC, Mysticial, etc. and realize that even if they were to go inactive, it'll take years to beat them in terms of total reputation points, because they'll hit the ...
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What should I do if my accepted answer is not the best one?
If you look at this question, my answer is the accepted one because it was the first to be posted, but the most upvoted one is clearly better than mine (and has been consequently upvoted)
What should ...
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Should there be an upper rep gain limit for answers?
Here is an interesting list of questions:
All top voted answers on non Wiki questions:
select top 20 '[' + q.Title + '](' + 'https://stackoverflow.com/questions/' + cast(q.Id as varchar(max)) + ' "...
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How much of a high-rep user's rep comes from previously answered questions? [closed]
When a user has been on SO (or any SE site) for a long time and has a large bank of good questions and answers, he might get old questions and answers upvoted when they are found by users via a search,...
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Clarifying the criteria for when rep from deleted posts is maintained
According to the blog post "Reputation and Historical Archives":
[I]f you’ve contributed something worthwhile to the site, you should keep the reputation for that even if it eventually gets ...
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Isn't Stack Overflow a bit like the Stonecutter's club? [closed]
Behind the scenes there appears to be a great hierarchy of highly educated individuals. To enter this secret club you require great scores of reputation. Once entered you are coveted by other members ...
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How to relate a comment to a specific comment?
How to relate a comment to a specific comment in case of multiple comments by a single SO user or when you are commenting on a specific comment which is not recent but which is down below (older) then ...
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Should we have a new "Trending Users" reputation league that is weighted towards recent content?
The reputation league is a good motivator to keep people participating. I think it would be interesting to see a new feature which showed a further split for 'trending users: reputation earned only ...
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Making over-the-cap reputation useful
Assuming that continuing to earn votes after hitting the daily reputation cap is considered a "Good Thing" (i.e. a behavior that the site would like to promote), I think it would be nice to think of ...
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Limiting rep per post
My apologies if I ask this wrongly. There are so many related topics to this and I tried to read through the biggest ones.
The discussion that caught my attention the most and what I would like to ...
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How would an answering days badge set work?
Recently, we rolled out a badge set for asking questions habitually. Naturally, I wondered if we could do something similar for answering. If you take the same criteria and simply change PostTypeId to ...
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StackOverflow helps regulating the addicted users. Really?
There's an simplified Chinese article at June 4 this year (not April 1 !) said :
StackOverflow会对上瘾的人关闭特定功能，以限制他们的使用
which means
StackOverflow regulates addicted users by restricting their actions
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Bounty cannot be awarded on a locked answer
I wanted to award a bounty of 50 rep to this answer because it's great. However, while I could start the bounty I was not able to award it since that answer is locked.
It would be great if a ...
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Reputation based on value of topic
As I've read this Value of reputation and people ask about suggestions so I bring one.
I think myself that Q/A reputation should be calculation based of value of its topic. Topic could be defined by ...
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Should reputation points expire? [duplicate]
While looking at the SO question How can I make a redirect page in jQuery/JavaScript? It occurred to me that this was an extremely simple question with an extremely simple answer. And yet, it has ...
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Another possible reputation cap algorithm?
I don't want to beat a dead horse. It's been discussed and I fully understand why the reputation cap exists. It's really not any different than placing a salary cap on sports organizations. But I ...
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Diminishing Returns for Reputation from Upvoting
I consistently come across questions wherein the top answer has, say, 1k+ upvotes. These are usually for basic questions that many, many people need the answer to. What this means is that over time ...
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Refund a close vote if a question is closed
Currently, I get around 50 close votes per day. However, once I've used them all, even if 40 of those questions ended up getting closed, I'm still left with 0 close votes.
In my opinion, if the ...
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Why is my reputation not getting counted? [duplicate]
Can any one help me out? I am receiving upvotes on my answers and questions but reputation is not getting added.
Please have a look at the below imags:
Is there any limitation that I am not aware of?...
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New League Biased Towards Recent Content
Summary
This proposal is for a new league that would track current posting activity, rather than historical posts or necro-rep. There would be no changes to the current system; it would just be ...
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Why do we have a 200 reputation/day limit? [duplicate]
Why do we have a 200 reputation/day limit?
Is 200 any magical number? Why do we limit it at all?
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Increase daily voting limits depending on reputation
I'm facing an issue, quite often debated (like in Why are there voting limits? and like the 4 firs page I found about vote up limit) : I am feeling really restricted by vote up limit.
Please, read ...
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