Questions tagged [reputation]
Reputation is a 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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How do we compete with AI for reputation? [duplicate]
I have been an active user on Stack Overflow for 9 years, going on 10. At the time of posting this, I have authored 225 answers and 55 questions, which averages roughly 2 - 3 contributions per month. ...
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Reputation not updated after question reopened — do closed-period upvotes get counted later? [duplicate]
I have a situation where my answer received upvotes while the question was closed, but I didn’t gain any reputation for them.
Later, the question was reopened, yet my reputation didn’t update.
Here’s ...
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What to do about reputation gain essentially ending in certain tags?
Assuming we want reputation to remain dynamic and grow over time for users who contribute to SO, how do we keep reputation and more importantly reputation based privileges from becoming essentially ...
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Has the reputation system been stuck lately? [duplicate]
I got 2 upvotes on an answer, yet I just got 10 reputation. Is the calculation of reputation broken?
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Further Experimentation with Comment Reputation Requirements
As we continue to explore ways to enhance engagement and lower barriers to participation within our comment system, we are now moving to a significant phase: testing a lower reputation requirement for ...
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Experimenting with the Commenting Reputation Requirement
TL;DR: We are running an experiment to lower the commenting reputation requirement from 50 to 2. Our goal is to make commenting more accessible to those who can appropriately use it within that 2-49 ...
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More rep for more extensive edits?
I enjoy making edits on SO. Sometimes it is something simple like adding references, formatting code, etc., but sometimes a question will need really extensive editing, for example if the question/...
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Why are questions seemingly being edited for cheap points?
Recently, I have had two questions edited for what in many cases seem to be cheap reputation points. Identical phrases have been removed and then re-inserted. Language style has been changed for no ...
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Reputation Reduction From A Question/Answer I did not participate in
Something very strange occurred today, where I got a notification of a -2 reputation reduction from a question I did not have anything to do with.
I did not downvote the question or any answer.
I ...
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Spam flags cast automatic downvotes on Staging Ground questions
There is no votes shown in SG posts so I used to think that SG posts didn't have scores. But I after raised a red flag on an SG post:
So... SG posts can actually be (down-)voted? Will this affect the ...
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Got 500 bounty earned 6 months ago removed off my account today [duplicate]
I answered a bountied question, and received the bounty, but the question and answers, shown below, were deleted 6 months after receiving the bounty:
This deletion resulted in loss of bounty ...
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Staging Ground Reviewer Motivation
Update Oct 7th, 2024:
The new Staging Ground badges are now live. All are listed in the Staging Ground section of the badges home page. Anyone who has previously met the criteria to earn one of the ...
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Should we align reputation requirements for review queue access and edit privileges?
TL;DR: make the reputation needed to access review queues and to make edits the same, to spare anyone below 2,000 rep the frustration of not being able to do reviews properly.
It takes 500 reputation ...
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Users with more than 1,000,000 reputation make scrollbars in UI
On Linux, superfluous scrollbars may be visible in the UI at:
https://stackexchange.com/leagues/1/alltime/stackoverflow/
I imagine we didn't have any 1M+ rep users when the stylesheets for this page ...
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When is reputation actually regained from deleting a downvoted answer/question?
According to many posts here (like this accepted answer) you will regain reputation when you delete your downvoted answer to a question.
I just deleted a downvoted answer to test and the score I have ...
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