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What is the association bonus, and how does it work?
Congratulations! One of your linked accounts has reached 200 reputation points, and as a result, all associated accounts are given a 100 point bonus.
What is the "association bonus"?
The ...
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Prevent questions on the Hot List from being upvoted by casual visitors (only rep is from association bonus)
I support this. I've been on the receiving end of this a lot on The Workplace.
Sometimes I write a super innocuous and not that spectacular answer, and it ends up somewhere insane like +200 within a ...
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Can a user make two accounts that both get the site reputation bonus at 200 rep then merge the two accounts, getting the association bonus twice?
Merging doesn't work the way you are thinking it does.
As part of the merge, everything is combined together. All the posts end up on a single profile, and your network account only has a single "...
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Increase trusted user rep bonus on a new site to 125 from 100
125 is also the reputation required for downvoting; it's a Bad Idea™ to give that privilege for free. Upvoting already causes enough problems (mainly due to the HNQ).
In between those 40 ...
GlorfindelMod
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User signing up to many stackexchange sites and offering the association bonus as a bounty
Note: this specific user turned out to cause harm on purpose by starting bounties on downvoted questions and awarding it to bad answers. The below applies to a more general case.
This is fine, in my ...
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Remove "be nice new user" message from users who are active in other sites on the network
I've been on SE for nearly a decade - am a moderator on two sites, and occationally mess up badly on a new site.
As an experienced user - I know my sites well but that doesn't give me expertise on ...
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I just earned the association bonus without reaching 200 reputation on any account
A user accepted your answer and then shortly after unaccepted it. But the acceptance put you at 200 reputation for a brief moment so you were given the association bonus. Once given, the association ...
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What would happen if I earned 200 reputation on multiple sites at the same time?
Whether or not you have the association bonus is simply a setting on your network account that is basically set to true or false. It is awarded once per site the first time that is flipped to true. So ...
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Users with only the association bonus can answer protected questions on per-site metas
So, when you have the association bonus, we create this user history event called "association bonus granted" that is attached to your profile. The system determines you have the association bonus by ...
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The association bonus does not persist as advertised and "Altruistic" users are penalized
There is no such thing "association bonus privileges" or privileges provided by association bonus. The privileges are indirect result, since the association bonus gives reputation.
It's explained in ...
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Is showing the +100 in the top bar on joining a new site with the association bonus considered intentional today?
That request was never completed in the way you are interpreting it. At the time, association bonuses triggered a notification but did not show in the achievements dialog - it was phantom reputation.
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Association bonus (+100 rep) and site disconnection bug?
People get to keep their association bonus, because that isn't tied to the profile you gain 200 reputation on but to the network account:
Even if you delete every single profile and the one on ...
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Why do some users have an association bonus even if they are not in any other Stack Exchange sites?
They may have deleted an older account which qualified them for the association bonus. Deleting such an account does not remove the association bonus on your remaining accounts, and it's even the case ...
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Is there any way to remove restrictions from StackExchange sites manually?
Moderators don't have the ability to do that.
Some of the staff do, but the only way they would do that is if they make you a moderator on a site - which won't happen if you don't have any site ...
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Prevent questions on the Hot List from being upvoted by casual visitors (only rep is from association bonus)
Although I support the idea here, I'd like to add a point of caution. At least on PPCG, we often see someone find a trivial (and often ill-fitting) question via Hot Network Questions, post an answer (...
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Proposing multiple association bonuses
The main reason you get 100 reputation is because the privileges at that level are universal across the network, the main ones being comment everywhere, upvoting, and flagging.
Anything above that ...
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Am I trusted or not?
Yes, we trust you.
This is a technical issue which others already asked to change/fix.
For future readers: better ways to ask for unprotecting a question (when justified) are:
Comment on the ...
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Association bonus after deleting the network profile
Yes, you would. Even if you delete every single profile and the one on stackexchange.com, your underlying network account still exists, and that is where the association bonus is stored. That ...
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Why do some users have an association bonus even if they are not in any other Stack Exchange sites?
You can choose to show/hide some of your communities on your profile. To do so, visit your profile, and then under your communities list, click on "Edit list":
Alternatively, you may visit ...
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Should we prevent "Improve this Question" from appearing when a user has 200 reputation on another site?
Missing the edit button is a very useful prompt and warning that any edit you make will not be attributed to your profile, but to the Community user. In other words: It is the first and most obvious ...
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I did not receive the association bonus
As the page you linked to says:
If you are an experienced Stack Exchange network user with 200 or more reputation on at least one site, you will receive a starting +100 reputation bonus to get you ...
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Where do people's reputation bonuses come from? What impact do these reputation bonuses have on site development?
You do not need to understand personal finance, or farming, or vehicle maintenance, in order to be granted privileges such as commenting or voting. You do need to understand the difference between an ...
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Why do we use [bonus-reputation] instead of [association-bonus]? Let's not!
#SeemsLegit
Merged and synonymized bonus-reputation -> association-bonus.
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The association bonus does not persist as advertised and "Altruistic" users are penalized
There is no bug that I can see, and the wording is consistent.
Once you have an account with >200 reputation on one site, you gain irrevocable association bonus rights, meaning any new community you ...
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Association bonus for combined reputation across multiple Stack Exchange sites
Well... That could have been a good suggestion...... But you missed one point (or mistook it): It really, really isn't that hard to acquire 200 rep on a single site...... Even if you spread your ...
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Association bonus conflicts with 'Trusted User' privilege
The message is:
You've earned a bonus 100 reputation because we trust you on other sites in the network.
Nowhere in there does it say that you're a Trusted User. It just says you're trusted. As @...
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What happens to users who request deletion of their accounts, who both qualify for immediate deletion and for staff to preserve their votes?
As currently designed, the profile would be deleted and all the votes would be lost. Profiles are only ever checked for voting thresholds to be transferred by the hourly script that processes 24-hour ...
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I did not start with 101 rep on a new site, despite doing so before
Well - this is a new account. Searching for your username (which is a public thing) turns up another, older account with the same name - which could indicate the issue you have.
This account has less ...
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Association bonus not awarded when joining new site
My money is on "something else going on". But if the AU profile didn't show up on your network profile until yesterday... hard to tell what at this point, since whatever got broken probably happened 2-...
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Can we get a better wording for protected questions?
This has been implemented meanwhile; the current notice reads
🔥 Highly active question. Earn 10 reputation (not counting the association bonus) in order to answer this question. The reputation ...
GlorfindelMod
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible