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Background Where reputation is shown in shortened form it is rounded conventionally. … reputation you actually have the privilege. …

This would be a nightmare to implement: It would take a long time to assess your work, without the motivation from helping many other people (rather than just you). I'm not sure many people would vo …

How is reputation earned For a detailed explanation see How does "Reputation" work? but broadly reputation is earned for receiving upvotes on questions/answers and for approved suggested edits. … (although my true reputation is 15,503). …

Automatically close voting on questions after a certain time period. This will not create the utopia you hope for. There are two kinds of common questions: Easy, highly specific to the OP, questions. …

Answers in comments Comments are not supposed to contain answers, in any form. If you feel you have an answer to contribute then post it as an answer; in which case it will have all the usual voting y …

Reputation is trust Ultimately reputation is an indication of how much the community trusts you, not that guy you owe a favour to. …

Background 2 days ago (10/1/2014)(9/1/2014) I answered assorted questions and went over the repcap(+215). After that a question I answered was deleted by Community♦ when the user was deleted (no huge …

not answered the original OPs problem If the existing question does not appear to be fully answered I would normally suggest offering a bounty to draw attention to it, however you do not yet have the reputation …

While I agree with the problem, I'm not sure I agree with the solution. If implemented this would give a person free reign to downvote every negatively voted post a person has ever made for reasons co …

If reputation points only reflect a user's knowledge in an area, why is it used as the sole basis to grant such privileges? … People with high reputation have at least used the site extensively, so they know how things work to a high degree. So assuming no malice they'll probably have competence and do a job. …

Introduction My argument against this would be an economic one, in a world where you can both have your cake and give it away there is very quickly infinite cake. Scenario If I have 3000 rep and have …

The low reputation privileges are all about using the site (commenting etc) rather than content level (eg voting to close) so if you've learnt to use them on one site you can be trusted to use them on … You can see this shown in your reputation history here; https://stackoverflow.com/users/1339950/philologon?tab=reputation And you will see the same entry in all your other accounts. …

This is to prevent spam/offensive images being posted (very few bots get reputation above 15). If you need to post a screen shot just upload it and include a link in your question. … I recommend using that until you get your 15 reputation …

Introduction I would like to propose that whenever a badge is awarded an additional rep reward is also given (bear with me this isn't just an attempt to get more rep for my badges). Context of rep In …

Because negative and positive scores receive different amount of reputation this actually gives the original poster considerable positive reputation, in the linked example at the time of posting the OP … had -2 score for the question but a net +11 reputation from it. …