Questions tagged [reputation]
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Is mediocrity encouraged?
Especially in light of the recent changes to reputation points for questions, it seems like this site encourages (via positive reputation) quantity over quality. Especially when one could receive a ...
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change in reputation value in stack overflow relevant in mi yodeya?
In stack overflow they changed the reputation for upvoted question to 10. This applies in mi yodeya?
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Demoted after given away reputation points
Why can I no longer perform tasks on this forum that I was able to before. I understand I gave away the reputation, but I still got the “experience”. What’s the deal?
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Block new or very low reputation users from posting on Shabbat
It seems quite common here that Spam, Rude, or otherwise inappropriate posts tend to accumulate over Shabbat when most of the posters are not present. This portrays a bad image of the site to others, ...
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Reputation in Chat
As usual, apologies if this has been asked before.
I'm just wondering if there is a different reputation calculator within Chat rooms, as my reputation is boosted there by about 200+ rep points ...
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How many reputation do you need in order to be able to vote to reopen or close a question?
How many reputation do you need in order to be able to vote to reopen or close a question??
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Minimum reputation for upvotes?
I noticed that for new users they cannot upvote answers until they reach a minimum of 15 reputation points.
I certainly see the idea that non-trusted upvotes could degrade the quality of the site.......
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My unjustly acquired reputation
I recently deleted an answer that I had posted.
The answer had attracted one downvote and one upvote. (Net effect on my rep. +8).
One of the comments clearly demonstrated that the answer was wrong.
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Why is there no Reputation for Badges?
Like the title says, why is there no Reputation for Badges?
When I achieve all I get is that if someone goes on my profile they can see that I earned that badge but you really do not get anything ...
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How does user with low rep address a locked post?
When a post is locked comments and edits are disabled. If a user has less than 20 rep the user cannot participate in chat. How can a user with low rep address a question of theirs which is locked?
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I seem to have some phantom reputation
This is pretty innocuous, and I'm more asking out of curiosity, but I seem to have more reputation for the year than I have reputation total. Specifically at the time of this posting, 6012 total and ...
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Possible reputation bug from bounty award
I was awarded a 100 point bounty for this answer. The user who offered/awarded the bounty got 100 reputation points deducted. While the answer has a +100 indicator next to it, I received 200 points ...
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What happens to close votes if the user dips below 3000 rep?
Suppose a user achieves 3000 reputation points and begins casting close votes. Then, the user downvotes an answer and loses 1 reputation point, falling to 2999. What happens to the close votes? Do ...
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Why do points earned on closed questions count?
Why do points that are earned on closed questions count for the asker and answerer?
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New registered user not receiving privileges
A new user recently registered his account, but his rep score is still below the 101 "automatic" rep score of a registered user, and (as a result) he does not have privileges like commenting on ...
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What Do I Do if Someone is Systematically Downvoting my Answers?
I hope this is the right place to post this question!
I just found that, about two hours ago, eleven answers of mine were suddenly downvoted, including some from several months ago. I can only assume ...
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Losing points whenever I downvote somebody
Why is it that I lose a point every time I downvote somebody else's comment or question? I've downvoted three so far (all for good reason) and have lost three points as a result.
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Reputation and Votes
If a user has greater reputation, then their votes should be worth more than votes of someone who is less reputable. It will ensure that people who the community gives more credibility to are more ...
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Incentive for Extra Reputation
I believe that we should try get our programmer friends at StackExchange HQ to program Mi.Yodeya into giving users extra reputation for asking and answering questions that fall into the Weekly Topic ...
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The Privilege Page should show Rep Requirements for Post-Beta
There's a really informative page that anyone can visit describing the various levels of reputation along with the benefits conferred by reaching each milestone. Currently, because we are in beta, the ...
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What does a rep loss for "user was removed" mean?
Today I lost rep with the following notation:
-10 8 mins ago removed User was removed
What does this mean? Some user had up-voted one of my answers (or two of my questions) and was ...
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limit bounty range
How could it be that a user with reputation of 100 started 3 bounties 500 points each. Shouldn't the system check users reputation and bound his bounty range respectively?
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Wrong rep in chat
Only problem is, last I checked I only have 9322 reputation (and counting!)
Why does it say I have 10.2k?
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Partial Reputation Credit
Today, with all of your help, I managed to overshoot my 200 reputation daily limit. I was under the impression that accepted answer points are not counted to the 200 limit. I had one answer accepted ...
Double AAMod
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My answer was changed from CW now I dont have rep
My answer was changed from community wiki to regular but I still do not see the rep.
What is the issue?
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Bug: Mobile user page on meta shows reputation gains
Despite the fact that no reputation is gained on meta, I still see +5 and +10 in the "reputation" section on the mobile user page.
Note that this does not actually add to my reputation, only that it ...
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Reputation in Meta.J.SE
Should upvoted questions/answers on Meta.J.SE gain the writer reputation points? If yes, should they be worth the regular +5/+10 or have different values?
Double AAMod
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When the scores don't add up
I am finding that what my reputation points section says and what is in the question area are sometimes different. Example: I up voted a question and I got -1 for downvoteing it.; It says in my rep ...
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What to do when finding duplicates?
There are times when several questions seem like they really ask the same question. Yet, sometimes the questions are old and both have their own answers. Is there a technique to merge questions, and ...
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Is rep on the main and meta site linked?
I keep noticing that my rep on main and meta are the same. Is this true for everyone and if true why is it so? (as opposed to say stackoverflow and meta.stackoverflow)
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I see that my reputation has migragted from mi.yodeya, but not all of my badges?
I see that the supporter and teacher badges were migrated, but I also had Enthusiast and Fanatic badges which I don't see now. Are badges re-assigned after migration, according the the data in the ...
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Where are my points?
I could have sworn that I had over 1,900 reputation points this morning. After the migration, I have considerably fewer. Does anyone know why?
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