Questions tagged [reputation]
Measurement of a user's contributions to the site, and the extent to which the community "trusts" that user with extra privileges.
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Is reputation harder to earn today?
I recall seeing on another, non SE website:
Most reputation that will ever been earned on this website has already been earned. For new users, it's a slog to the top.
That is, older users with a few ...
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What is the reason for gaining 2 reputation points on accepting someone else's answer? [duplicate]
This question has been bothering my mind for quite some days now. When a user accepts an answer to their question, they gain 2 reputation points unless it is a self-answer. What is the reason for this?...
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How does downvote feedback work? [duplicate]
If you don't have the necessary reputation to downvote something on a given site, it'll say:
Thanks for the feedback! You need at least 125 reputation to cast a vote, but your feedback has been ...
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Give the edit posts privilege to users with a history of good suggested edits [duplicate]
Currently, the only way to unilaterally edit posts is to have 2,000 rep (1,000 on beta sites).
Many users, for one reason or another, have experience editing but don't post very often, and hence take ...
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Why does the community bot only have 1 reputation? [duplicate]
I recently edited my post from an unlogged browser, and the edit goes to the community bot, as its profile also says:
I do things like
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Own suggested edits from anonymous users
So why can't it ...
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Show to what site the reputation belongs when hovering over the reputation counter on the top bar
I recently had a sinking feeling in my gut: my reputation had dropped by 1/3! Serves me right for posting crappy questions.
But wait, it turns out that number is referring to
each individual Stack ...
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What will happen if a user who initially have the bounty privilege but lost it during the duration of the bounty? [duplicate]
There's nothing in particular about this, just that I'm curious. Let's suppose a scenario: A user gains reputation, and got the "offer a bounty" privilege (awarded upon reaching 75 rep ...
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Let answerers keep their rep for deleted questions that they had invested time and effort in
In the last month or so, an abnormally and extremely large number of my answers got deleted. There was no reason for deletion, it happened just because the question(s) with which my answer(s) were ...
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What can I do if originally accepted and upvoted answers suddenly got a large number of downvotes? [duplicate]
The last two weeks saw an exceptionally (and to some extent, abnormally, since I'm new to SO and don't have much posts) large number of downvotes to my answers. Most of those answers originally got at ...
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Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange points system exploit discovered [duplicate]
There are a number of users who are gaining points by either creating posts and having their friends upvote, or else they are copying another (often accepted) answer, and then rephrasing it. Although ...
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API returns reputation history events for deleted posts, yet no post_deleted events are included. Why? Bug? What do I do?
This SE API request for user 30382 of Mathematics site returns the following items:
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{"reputation_history_type":"post_downvoted","reputation_change":-2,"post_id&...
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Allowing Moderators/high rep users to accept answers on behalf of askers [duplicate]
Relates to Asking users to accept answer when they comment that it answers their question.
Has there been any discussion of allowing users with high levels of rep to accept answers on behalf of ...
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The moderator blocked user accounts due to voting violations [duplicate]
The situation occurred with two accounts: self SVBazuev and my daughter's AnnaBazueva.
When she sees a question that she can answer, she does it.
We often use one device, it happens like this:
I look ...
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New User Barriers: The Reputation System's Impact on Participation [duplicate]
I'm new to StackOverflow and would like to use it more, but I'm a little confused about the reputation system. Why do you need reputation to do things like comment or vote? It seems like a barrier to ...
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Why did my reputation only increase by 2 for an upvoted answer? (reputation cap is not a factor)
Today, an answer I wrote to the question 'Why did Joseph Goebbels allow an all-Jewish Orchestra to exist and perform in Berlin from 1938 to 1941?' on History SE received an upvote. My reputation page ...
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Does downvoting reputation loss get regained when an answer is deleted? [duplicate]
Obviously, reputation is regained when a question or answer is deleted. And reputation is subtracted (-1) on my downvote- as in when I downvote a post.
But what happens if I downvoted a answer, lost 2 ...
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The alignment of rep and badges is off on the top bar
I'm not sure if this has been raised elsewhere, but on the user awards in the top bar, the alignment of text for the reputation and badges is off, and it's a bit annoying:
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Why is a user's reputation re-calculated when one of their posts is deleted?
When a user's question or answer gets deleted, their reputation gets re-calculated.
Like if my answer gets an upvote, and then gets deleted, I lose my ten rep that I gained from the upvote. I guess I ...
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Why doesn't reputation show under usernames on MathOverflow? [closed]
I landed on a MathOverflow page from the Hot Network Questions (HNQ) section and I noticed that user reputation doesn't show under their username. why is that?
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What happens to a user's pending edits when they subsequently gain enough reputation for their edits to be applied without peer review? [duplicate]
For example, on the Law stack 1,000 reputation earns one a privilege so that
Edits to other users’ posts are applied immediately
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In addition, users with this privilege level can also begin ...
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Is it allowed to give all of one's reputation points away via bounty? [duplicate]
If a person wants to leave, would they be able to give away loads or all of their points through bounties (reward existing answer mainly), or would that be flagged as some sort of offense and shut ...
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Not getting reputation for deleted-then-revised answer? [closed]
One of my answers was deleted for not having enough context around a provided link. After revising and posting an answer with more explanation, I still have not received the reputation for the answer.
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Protected questions should have a higher reputation requirement for editing and approving edits
When a question is protected it requires a certain minimum reputation to answer it. At least on politics SE this is mostly used for questions that are highly politized or opioniated. And it works in ...
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User activity reputation graph missing on Cross Validated
Typically there was a user reputation cumulative graph on the activity page.
For example, mine for Meta Stack Exchange looks like this on Feb. 28, 2024 https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/341152/carl:...
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Long loading time on reputation page
When I open my Stack Overflow profile page (when logged in) it takes a long time for the page to load. The first request takes at least 7 seconds. This is easily reproducible. It happens in all ...
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Is my reputation and reach on my Stack Exchange linked to my Stack Overflow profile? [closed]
I just linked my Stack Overflow profile to my meta.stackexchange profile. Is the platform going to link both reputations and reach together?
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How can I assign a bounty and the "accepted answer" checkmark to more than two equally good answers?
I posted a question and added a 100 point bounty.
I got (so far) three equally great answers. Each of the answers approached the problem from a different angle. All three answers are independent. All ...
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Incorrect displayed reputation difference after suspension/unsuspension [duplicate]
Bug: the displayed reputation difference on a user profile page is sometimes (always?) incorrect after an account suspension/unsuspension, e.g.:
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Why have I been able to access the Suggested Edits queues when I have <2K rep? [duplicate]
Back when I had around 850 reputation on the Mathematics Stack Exchange, I got a review task in the Suggested Edits queue for this question of mine. The thing is, this was back when I had way less ...
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Question downvotes issues in regards to the points system [closed]
I noticed that recently I am losing reputation points due to a question that gets downvotes. I don't understand how I got the points in the first place, but that's a different story.
I don't want to ...
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Could altering the level of reputation required to view and comment on deleted answers improve people's trust in the impartiality of the site?
I believe that trust in this platform and the quality and impartiality of the information it provides is very important. For this question, my assumption is that one of the things we want to do is to ...
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It appears that people are making simple edits and answers just for reputation points
I hesitate to ask questions on Stack Exchange as usually I will get lots of edits and answers, but usually the edits are formatting and spelling, and the answers are simplistic (e.g., read the ...
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Feature of posting a question as an anonymous guest user (without having an account) is not useful and it leads to incorrect answers / comments
Posting a question as an anonymous guest user (without having an account) is allowed but for commenting 50 reputations are required.
A guest user (who doesn't have an account) can't accrue any ...
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