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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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Determine a user's reputation on a given day

You can see any users reputation on specific days (from all of their accounts) on the network profile reputation graph. …
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Why is there rep on Meta?

From Help Center > What is reputation? Reputation is a rough measurement of how much the community trusts you; it is earned by convincing your peers that you know what you’re talking about. … Basic use of the site, including asking questions, answering, and suggesting edits, does not require any reputation at all. But the more reputation you earn, the more privileges you gain. …
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Is the process of accumulating reputation on this site exponential?

You can see the graph of any user's reputation over time by clicking their name/avatar and looking at their profile (on the activity tab)... … The problem with reputation: does high reputation attract too many upvotes? …
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Is there an option to close your own questions regardless of reputation?

Only questions that aren't a good fit for the site should be closed, it isn't the equivalent of saying "this question is solved" but rather "this question doesn't meet the quality standards of this si …
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Why does the same privilege unlock at different reputation levels on different sites?

Seems that Anime & Manga graduated and began the design-independent graduation process almost a year ago. But if you read through the meta discussion on Design-Independent Graduation you will see that …
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When was the 200 rep per day limit added?

This post from October 2008 says: ...the current "200 reputation points per day through voting" limit So it existed a very short time after Stack Overflow was publicly launched. …
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Can an experienced SE user somehow submit an answer to a Protected question on a network he ...

10 reputation (which is how much you need to answer a protected question) really isn't that much. … If you havn't earned 10 reputation on the site there's a good chance you don't know the site well enough to post a good, high quality quality answer, and that's exactly what protecting a question is for …
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What does the green background behind numbers mean in the "reputation" section of profiles?

The green highlighting fill doesn't mean the answer itself is accepted, it (usually) means that specific reputation gain was from an acceptance. Much the same as it shows in the full reputation tab. … Basically, anything that has the filled background in the reputation tab also gets it in the summary. …
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8 votes

Why is no reputation gained for approved edits on Community Wiki questions/answers?

the reputation needed to unilaterally edit a community wiki post is 100, rather than the 2000 for normal posts. …
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Down-vote reputation penalty is too big

If you're getting enough of a penalty for it to significantly affect your reputation then you're doing something wrong. …
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Cannot comment or ask on Area 51 due to insufficient reputation

Looks like you only have 1 reputation on Area 51. Reputation is earned on a per-site basis and does not carry over, so you need to earn enough reputation on Area 51 itself. … You can read more about how reputation works here: How does "Reputation" work? …
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Method to get answers accepted if OP is unregistered

Accepting an answer is not mandatory. There is no obligation to accept an answer, and the accepted answer simply means "this helped OP the most". It isn't necessarily the correct answer, a correct ans …
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Are reputation points really needed to edit Community Wiki posts?

Anyone can suggest an edit to a post (even anonymous users), but without sufficient reputation that edit is put in to a queue to be peer reviewed before it is approved (or rejected). … You can see from the suggested edit review that your suggested edit was approved by the original poster, who can always approve edits regardless of reputation. …
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Does a downvoter receive a notification on a post edit?

No. Voters are not notified when your post is edited. If you are going to notify downvoters then you need to do the opposite too, it's completely possible to edit a good question to a worse state and …
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