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Let answerers keep their rep for deleted questions that they had invested time and effort in
The "reasons" for the deletion of the questions range from duplicate, lacking debugging details or not clear (and if that's the case why did I manage to solve it?), or other reasons (none of ...
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Let answerers keep their rep for deleted questions that they had invested time and effort in
Laconic
If a question was deleted, it was probably bad. If a user answers a bad question, they are hurting the site. If a user is hurting the site, they should not be rewarded for doing so.
The ...
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Let answerers keep their rep for deleted questions that they had invested time and effort in
I have ignored the details of your proposal, because the proposal is motivated by profound misconceptions about Stack Exchange that render it moot.
In the last month or so, an abnormally and ...
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Accepted
Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange points system exploit discovered
There is a way to flag this: flag as “In need of moderator intervention”, describe the issue, and the moderators will take care of it.
There are some automatic systems in place to detect voting fraud. ...
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Accepted
What can I do if originally accepted and upvoted answers suddenly got a large number of downvotes?
Looking at your SO profile, some user is serial downvoting you and they are doing it slowly to avoid triggering the serial voting reversal script.
The solution is: be more proactive when a user ...
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