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Possible Duplicate: What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap? Hi I am just curious about why reputation has been limited to 200 per day.I know up to some extent it does not matter, But ...

Possible Duplicate: What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap? It seems having a limit on reputation encourages people to not try and earn as much reputation as possible per day. Is there ...

Possible Duplicate: What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap? Had a good day yesterday reputation-wise. But after a while the reputation count halted, although my answers got awarded. ...

Why do we have a 200 reputation/day limit? Is 200 any magical number? Why do we limit it at all?

I'm looking for Chuck Norris Facts style answers. In case anyone is curious, this question was inspired by Jon's own comment to this question. EDIT: If you're into cryptography, you may enjoy these ...

In short, the bikeshed problem: If you go before the Board of Directors and ask for 1.5 billion dollars to build a nuclear reactor, no one will review or discuss the details of the plant. ...

TL;DR: The rep cap system isn't as effective or fair as it might be. I'm proposing one alternative for comment, and would welcome other suggestions too. Disclaimers I'm pretty sure the rep cap hits me ...

Once in a while I stumble on some question or answer with HUGE amount of upvotes (thousands for a question and multiple hundreds for an answer). Here is the perfect example: How to modify existing, ...

I see questions like How can I make a redirect page in jQuery/JavaScript?. This is an old question that has got more than 1000 up-votes now. But what would happened if the same question was asked now?...

I mean, I know that it shouldn't, if you're just doing things for the fun of it. That's how I was too, until I answered one question in the morning in a way that caused many people to upvote it for ...

I've noticed (linked on in other closed threads) that people have been saying this. In fact, to quote one post I'd like to pick apart: It allows for others that won't gain reputation as quickly ...

It's quite well documented that SO has a daily reputation cap of 200. Canonical and duplicate questions abound on the subject, and I understand the various aspects of the answers provided. However, I'...

I know there was another question about removing the reputation limit (also tagged as declined)... It seemed like there was some backing of the idea of actually increasing it here on the meta site. ...

For an answer I received 10 votes and 1 negative vote but my rep is 90. I remember Upvote means +10 Downvote means -2 In my case it Upvote means +10 and Downvote means -10, is this a new ...

I am receiving upvotes, but my reputation is not increasing. Why does that happen? Take a look at this answer and this question for example.