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Users may only earn a certain amount of reputation each day, with the exception of reputation coming from accepted answers and bounties.

69 votes

Revisiting the rep cap (yes, again)

a user who dives straight into the community and contributes left, right and centre will still be forced to wait for privileges (and general recognition via rep) This is intentional, and by desig …
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17 votes
Accepted

Does a Rep Cap discourage participation?

See Podcast #72 The daily reputation cap is partly there to encourage programmers to take a break. The goal isn’t to be on Stack Overflow, but to generally do things that make you a better programmer …
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7 votes

Add number of days you hit the daily rep cap to your profile somewhere

This is available via the /reputation route.
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6 votes

Should there be an upper rep gain limit for answers?

See https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/12/daily-dose-of-daily-reputation-ca/ Based on my analysis of Stack Overflow voting patterns in 2008: Implementing a logarithmic decline in the value of upvote …
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2 votes

Capped at 175 Rep?

Did someone unaccept an answer of yours? That'd be -15.
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1 vote
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Daily reputation cap: points subtracted

I agree with ChrisF -- I think you had some votes that were invalidated as statistically anomalous. We have a process that runs every 24 hours and checks for voting anomalies, and removes any votes t …
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7 votes

Award bounties at the end of the day

This is completed because bounties and accepts are fully immune to rep cap now. https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/03/the-great-reputation-recalc-begins/
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1 vote
Accepted

Different reputation for same time frame

Try now; we clarified the dates and ranges and fixed a really nasty accidental localization of time bug.
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1 vote

How many rep for an accepted answer?

The tooltip on the accept arrow will tell you what's going on. Also, if the accept arrow is "glowing" that's a bounty accept.
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1 vote

Observation about downvotes and epic/legendary badge

I am not a huge fan of the approach, but It is probably fine in the aggregate, since it's such an edge condition anyway It's your account and you are entitled to behave in any manner you see fit (t …
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0 votes

Rep cap kicking in a little too early?

Use https://stackoverflow.com/reputation to validate. I just did (developers, but not diamond moderators, have access to this per user) and it is showing me this for 4-14, for you: 2 2619185 (10 …
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5 votes

Doesn't upvotes received after getting voted down the rep-cap yield any reputation?

Now that accepted answers and bounties are truly immune from the rep cap, not just occasionally chronologically immune depending on when they arrive, this should be fixed.
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4 votes

Total reputation, average reputation, or rolling reputation: leveling the playing field?

Reputation leagues are now rolled out: https://stackexchange.com/leagues Blog entry: https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/network-central-stackexchange-com/
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
3 votes

Is there a bug in Epic badge calculation?

Rarely awarded badges aren't calculated very often for performance reasons. Wait 2 full days, and if you don't have it by then let us know.
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