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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What does "user was removed" mean and why did my reputation change because of it?
Message appearing when a user was removed.
It seems I lost 1765 reputation points on Stack Overflow yesterday. The reason given in my history is "removed", with the description of
User was ...
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Six simple tips to get Stack Overflow reputation fast
From "6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast" at codexon.com:
Be the First to Answer. Even at the cost of quality.
Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically
Use obnoxious in-...
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How does "Reputation" work?
On Stack Exchange, users may gain a certain level of reputation.
What does reputation do?
How can a user gain or lose reputation?
See also:
What is reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it? in the ...
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What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
I just noticed that I lost a bunch of points from my reputation score, and I used the "reputation" tab on my user profile page to try and track down the cause.
During my investigation, I noticed ...
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Recent Reputation History Changes
Update (March, 2012): This has been rolled out to all sites in the network except Area 51.
Behind the scenes we've been hard at work making some changes to how we track reputation. Here are some of ...
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Why do you lose reputation for downvoting answers?
It is incredibly rare that I downvote on this or any other community site. I would rather just ignore the item. However, occasionally some very bad advice is given that is worthy of a downvote. Why ...
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How do I audit my reputation?
If I am concerned that my reputation score is incorrect, how can I audit it, or get a report of a detailed breakdown of my reputation?
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Should the weight of downvotes be increased?
When we started Stack Overflow, we wanted to make sure that downvotes were more of a visual and psychological motivator than a punitive action. That's why
upvotes are +10
downvotes are -2, and cost ...
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More descriptive "User was removed" explanation
Currently, when rep is changed due to the removal of another user account (to undo the rep gain/loss that happened when they up-/down-voted/accepted/were downvoted by you), the associated message is ...
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The problem with extrinsic motivation
TL;DR: Stack Exchange favors standard, fast, and complete answers at the expense of novel, creative, and excellent answers. This bias results directly from reputation ratings, badges and other ...
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Reputation for comments?
I have seen many good comments that really improve the quality of questions and answers, and I think they deserve a bit of reputation (maybe just 1 point) for a upvote.
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Wiping votes on deletion of highly active accounts (-865 points on "User was removed")
Update: As MadScientist quite aptly pointed out this is also highly relevant:
Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted at +523 votes, feature-request
I was greeted by this screen just ...
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Please charge rep for questions after threshold
There was a suggestion on uservoice - now down, that really illustrate the need to stop users from gaming the system by simply asking meaningless, ridiculous question after question to gain rep. We ...
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Change rep required to downvote on MSE
To make your opinion known on MSE you need both up and downvotes. Given at the moment you need 125 rep to downvote on this site, the voting patterns will be skewed positive because not everyone is ...
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New Reputation Calculation - was the community asked?
Stack Exchange is recalculating everyone's reputation to award more reputation for receiving an upvote on a question. To my knowledge, the community wasn't asked for input on whether this was a good ...
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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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How to get over 200 reputation points every day [duplicate]
I was watching the top users and saw the honourable Jon Skeet profile with his 136k+ 558k+ 1M reputation. This man has a lot of quality posts and I respect him a lot. He deserves the reputation he has,...
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Display lost/negative reputation in topbar achievements
When you get reputation, you get a +X green spot on your reputation feed telling you that you gained reputation and if you drop down the menu, you get more detail.
How about we make it that when you ...
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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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Sudden sharp reputation drop problem: points disappeared and score lost (recalc?)
I just experienced a drop in rep. Maybe that's due to a rep recalc, but then I'd really like to see that in my recent activity, which shows no clue as to what happened. How do I find out exactly what ...
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The surest way to gain lots of reputation on Stack Overflow- ask questions [duplicate]
Gaining reputation from answering on Stack Overflow is getting
increasingly difficult. There are many talented users to
answer most questions within minutes, providing good enough
answers immediately ...
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What are the reputation requirements for privileges on sites, and how do they differ per site?
Formerly Reputation requirements compared.
What are the reputation requirements for privileges on the various sites in the network?
Also, how do reputation requirements for various privileges compare ...
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Allow bounty to be set with reputation from another site?
Here's one to get shot down: How about letting bounties to be set using the reputation gained through the use of another site? So, for instance, I'm a programmer with a high Stack Overflow rep who ...
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SE is breaking the reputation privilege system
For the new genAI site, SE is planning to dramatically lower certain privileges to 1 reputation. This includes allowing every user with 1 rep to up- and downvote as well as comment everywhere. Here (...
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Propose a new 20k reputation privilege [closed]
Right now, the maximum privilege "unlock" is at 10k reputation:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges
We're considering adding a new 20k reputation privilege, but having a hard time figuring out ...
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At what point do you put your SO reputation in your resume? [closed]
While this is half tongue in cheek, this website and community may end up being the premier site that over half the world's programmers regularly attend - especially if Jeff and Joel create localized ...
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Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment
This question is a great example of people coming from Google and using answers as comments.
I understand the reputation threshold is there to prevent spam, but Answers are just as prone to spam as ...
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It’s time to retire the term “rep-whore”
Going forward, “rep-whore” (and its derivatives) will be treated like any other term that’s inconsistent with the community’s “be nice” policy: it will be removed.
It’s totally okay if you’ve used ...
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Eeeek! Where did the reputation graph go? [closed]
The reputation graph no longer shows up on my profile when I click on the reputation tab. Is it gone now (like the mail icon)? Or has it been moved somewhere else?
I do like the more detailed ...
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Bounty-like facility for rewarding excellent questions
Amongst the reasons for starting a bounty, one can select:
Reward existing answer
One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.
Why not enable one to reward ...
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How does a lurker gain reputation to receive privilege for commenting? [duplicate]
I have been reading Stack Exchange for years - mostly not logged in, and have never posted (this is my first). I'm simply not very talkative, and very good at googling.
Recently a few occasions have ...
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Self-instigated rep recalc [closed]
In a few situations, it's nice to be able to get a rep recalc "on demand." In the past, I've simply pinged Marc Gravell about this, but it would be good not to have to bother him.
As an example, this ...
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Show 3 significant figures for rep over a million [closed]
With "reputation to the max" I now have 6,621,210 reputation. Unfortunately, this only shows as 6.6m:
Other reputation levels are shown with three or more significant digits - e.g. 508k as Darin's ...
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What is the daily reputation cap and how can I hit it?
I've found some questions and those two badges "Epic" and "Legendary" regarding the "daily reputation cap". What is it and how can I hit it?
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Having a bad start. Is that normal?
I'm sorry to bother you with my thoughts but since I'm quite new here, I am not familiar with this.
Stack Overflow was my first choice for help for a long time. I decided, now that I'm a bit better in ...
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Let me reward a good edit on my question/answer
Often an edit to one of my questions or answers will make it a lot better. The edit can constitute more to the site than someone posting another answer or comment.
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Has there been any discussion regarding the original stated reasons for the question up votes being set at +5 from +10 earlier?
Jeff Atwood's Mar. 19, 2010 SE post Should the weight of question upvotes be reduced? asked about reducing the question upvote reputation changes from +10 to +5, with some discussions there both for &...
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Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?
This might sound a bit crazy, but hear me out...
There's a certain behavior among voters on SO that, while understandable, makes down-voting incorrect or unhelpful answers somewhat counter-productive:...
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Is losing privileges after placing bounty OK?
My rep went over 2,000 today which meant I could edit other people's posts. Great! Then I added a bounty to a previous question, which brought me back down to 1,984...and I can no longer edit other ...
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Does Jon Skeet ever have to answer another question to remain the #1 user on Stack Overflow?
Looking at Jon Skeet's profile he has an enormous lead in reputation over number 2.
Given the huge amount of rep that he gets from up votes on existing answers and that he either hits or exceeds the ...
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The problem with reputation: does high reputation attract too many upvotes? [duplicate]
It's not that I feel bitter when somebody else's answer is upvoted above my own, but it's when a user with a high rep answers a question and their answer seems to attract an immediate barrage of ...
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Should the weight of question upvotes be increased network-wide?
Stack Exchange has expressed an interest in increasing the reputation earned from question upvotes from 5 to 10 on all sites.
Do you think this is a good idea?
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Changes to bounty rules: removal of double rep-retention, blocking of owner deletion
Adam Lear has been digging into the circumstances behind this feature request, and determined that the behavior described there is likely an oversight: it should not be possible for a bounty to remain ...
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Propose a privilege to sit in the 500 reputation mark
As determined from earlier discussions, the retag privilege serves a lot more confusion and a lot less of its benefit due to the suggested edit system. It must be done away with. It will be done away ...
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If downvoting is so important, why does it cost reputation?
I've just read that downvoting is used to ban poor askers. However, there are many, many members who will never dare downvote anything because of that little 1 rep. (Besides, I think downvoting is not ...
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Should there be anonymous answers (and questions)?
The question by Joel on Logo got me thinking. This has been raised on UserVoice, but has been declined.
Would someone with lesser rep or a less famous name have received the same number of votes/...
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Should we cap reputation gained from questions at +2000?
Please disregard. This proposal has been abandoned in favor of a new proposal.
Please disregard. The new proposal has been abandoned in favor of just plain not doing it.
Based on:
Could we put a ...
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Would it be possible to have a "community accepted" feature?
Recently, I have answered a few questions that were upvoted by factors more than the accepted answer, but not accepted. This one, at the time of my writing, has an accepted answer that the asker said ...
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The global reputation recalc of March 2010 [closed]
I lost a ton of reputation in March of 2010! Why did this happen?
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What happened on Aug 7? Massive unaccepts
I was looking through my reputation history on Stack Overflow and was surprised to see that I lost a whopping 558 points on August 7th! Expanding the view I see a whole bunch of questions apparently ...
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