Questions tagged [reputation]
The reputation tag will be used to ask questions dealing with reputation.
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Reputation decrease citing "User was removed"
I look at my account reputation changes, and noticed several negative reputation changes, both citing 'User was removed'. Is this behavior documented/explained anywhere. I would appreciate some ...
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Where reputation disappears
Is there any possibility to deduce why 25 of (my) reputation disappeared probably this night? It is not the problem of reputation, but the lack of information is rather strange. On tex.stackexchange....
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Deduction in rep for downvoting
If I downvote someone's answer with detail in the comment as to why, then why is my reputation deducted ( by -1). I am helping the community. Reputation is hard to earn, and if it's deducted every ...
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Can someone explain the "economics" of StackExchange points?
To date, I had not been bothering to formally accepting my best answer, and had a 0% acceptance rate. On a recent question I posed, I was informed that no one will answer questions with 0%. So, I ...
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Does reputation change if an answer gets deleted due to deletion of original post by vote(s)?
I recently found that the following post $\lim_{x\rightarrow +\infty}\sqrt{x}e^{-x}\left(\sum_{k＝1}^{\infty}\frac{x^{k}}{k!\sqrt{k}}\right)$ was deleted by vote(s) and as a result my answer also got ...
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invisible, unawarded upvote
For an answer on MSE I appear to have gotten 1 upvote, my reputation page shows an upvote at 22:51:04, but no points (just a blank where points usually show). I can find no reason why the points aren'...
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Can I know where I lost my reputation?
Yesterday I had a $-10$ reputation due to User Was Removed. Can I know which user was removed and in which answer I lost my reputation?
Thanks for any reputation.
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What is the Real Use of Reputation?
Despite some rights that are granted, when reaching a threshold, what is its real use?
In my opinion the only real use is to start bounties, the higher the better.
I have to admit that I'm more on the ...
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Does a user lose privilege if his reputation decreases below requirement by giving a bounty?
Here is a hypothetical question - Suppose I cross 1000 reputation and become an established user. Then I give 200 reputation as bounty on some problem, so my reputation goes down below 1000. Will I ...
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Is it possible to know which posts were affected by user removal?
I suddenly saw that I am 20 points short, and the reputation page says that a user was removed. I am now left to wonder which posts suffered from this drop.
Is it possible to add some sort of way of ...
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How did I lose rep?
An hour or two ago, I seem to have lost rougly 50-60 reputation points. I have no idea how this happened.
Maybe someone deleted a question containing an answer of mine? How can I keep track of such ...
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-1 for downvote? [duplicate]
I downvoted this answer : Can we find the perimeter of a triangle given only its base and height? , because the answer was really bad. But to my surprise, 1 point was deducted from my reputation (...
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Congratulations to André Nicolas! [duplicate]
Congratulations on reaching $200,000$ reputation! I think I speak for us all when I say that your posts here are greatly appreciated.
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A Fresh new solution to the problems of rep
(This is a reconstruction, also I've had a change of heart)
I suggest that we replace the rep system with a system based on the average number of votes each user receives. For instance, in this ...
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Have I been removed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reputation decrease citing “User was removed”
When hovering over my name, I just noticed that I have lost 110 reputation points and the sinister explanation is "User was ...
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Why does the person who is downvoting an answer get a downvote himself? [duplicate]
Why is that the person who downvotes an answer get a downvote himself? Isn't this unfair. I mean that the answer is not right or up to the standards so I downvote it but I also get a downvote but I ...
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Reputation went down
My reputation went down by 15 points. Is it because someone deleted one of their questions?
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Reputation - Why do so many people care?
I apologize if this is a "dumb question", but I would really like someone to respond to this question.
Why is reputation so important to people?
I believe that some people answer questions and ask ...
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How democratic and fair is the reward/reputation system actually?
In the last couple years I have asked just a few questions on Mathematics Stackexchange and Physics Stackexchange. Recently I have become much more active. I now spend considerable time on Mathematics ...
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Congratulations, André! [duplicate]
Since yesterday, the number of 100k+ users on MSE has doubled, courtesy of André Nicolas.
I think congratulations are in order!
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Congratulations, Did hits the 100K!! [duplicate]
"Did" is now one of the top 5 users of Math.SE
He hit the reputation score of 100K today!!
Congratulations to him from the community!
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How long is the time of the transfer of the reputation value from the main to the meta site?
It seems to be more than half an hour? Does it vary?
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Capped reputation
I just read about the reputation cap of 200, and I have two questions.
Say that it happens I get more than twenty upvotes for my answers in one day. Will the reputation beyond capped be permanently ...
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After my questions is closed and deleted - is the reputation lost from downvotes returned?
Sorry I can't link to the question. I knew going in that I would get a few down-votes because the question was a little abstruse. I was willing to take my lumps. However, when the thread was ...
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Does vote(up/down) in MSEmeta affect reputation in MSE or the converse.
Does the vote up and vote down in MSEmeta affect the reputation in MSE or the converse. Also why is there a difference between the reputation of MSEmeta and MSE. They are fairly close in my case, just ...
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Progressive deduction in rep for downvoting
I asked a question why should I lose rep points when I downvote what I consider a wrong (or otherwise inadequate) answer. My question was donwvoted with the usual answer, ooh no, how would we stop ...
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Total reputation > total reputation
The page https://stackexchange.com/leagues/69/year/math/2020-01-01/796779#796779 contains infomation about the rep number of me ( user JCAA). It says that the total reputation is ~$12200$ and the ...
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No idea what's happening in my profile!
What does this imply? I don't get up votes once I reach 160 reputation for a question? Is this very common. There are 23 events and the reputation stopped just after 16 up votes.(Laughs) A bug need to ...
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Congratulations to Brian M. Scott!! (200K edition) [duplicate]
It's been a little more than two weeks since our last celebration, but today another math.SE user has passed the 200K barrier!
Prof. Scott's habit of providing fantastic answers to questions of all ...
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Congratulations, amWhy hit 100k! [duplicate]
Congratulations to @amWhy for hitting the 100k mark today.
As far as I know, she is the first woman to also reach this amazing milestone and we are lucky that she is a participant here!
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Congratulations to Robert Israel! [duplicate]
With Robert, we now have two rows of 100k members complete.
Thanks for all your contributions...
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Congratulations once again, André!!! [duplicate]
From today André Nicolas is the top MSE user.
Congratulations André!
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I want to help but I cannot because the questions are already answered by high-level users
Whenever I browse the QUESTIONS tab in math.stackexchange, I notice that all the questions, even the very basic ones, are already answered. And I also notice that even elementary questions are ...
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Congratulations, Asaf! [duplicate]
Congratulations to Asaf for joining the 100k club (Arturo, Qiaochu, André, Brian, Did). Your contributions are always appreciated!
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Congratulations, Hagen von Eitzen! +100k !! [duplicate]
The number of +100k users has increased! Why? Because of the
~4000 excellent answers Hagen von Eitzen produced.
All the hard work paid off. Congratulations!
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Congratulations, DonAntonio! [duplicate]
I'm all for another occasion to celebrate. DonAntonio has surpassed $100$k today!
Congratulations, DonAntonio, for this impressive accomplishment!
And just as important, thank you for your time, ...
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Congratulations, Bill! [duplicate]
Only a short while after returning, he has broken the 100k!
Thanks for your answers, and congratulations, Bill!
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What is the reason for this change of reputation? Reputation tab says "-2" and "removed".
About an hour ago, my reputation was decreased by 2. I was curious, because I usually do not receive down-votes. However, when I got on my profile page, I was really confused. What does this "removed" ...
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Question About Serial-Upvoting
There some people who serial upvote with a fake account in order to gain reputation. But I am wondering if some people spread out their votes and vote on some other questions and answers like they are ...
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Congratulations, joriki! [duplicate]
Congratulation to joriki for getting $100,001>100,000$ reputation!
Thanks for you amazing answers! You've helped a countless number of people in the M.SE community.
I will wish you, on the behalf ...
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Congratulations, Gerry Myerson! Gerry Hits 100K Reputation!!! [duplicate]
Gerry Myerson has just hit $100,000$ reputation on MSE (and EXACTLY $100,000$ rep as I write too). I just wanted to congratulate him for reaching such a big milestone and to thank him for contributing ...
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Net gain for a poor question
I have read a similar question on this meta in regards to users mitigating another users downvote, solely based on believing something shouldn't be a $-1$. I dislike this, since these users are ...
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I miss 10 rep points
This time I'm pretty sure: I had 9702 yesterday and two upvotes on an answer and one on a question. But my total rep is 9717. Ten more or less don't matter, but strange it seems to me...
I gained ten ...
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What happens to the bounty I added to a questions if no new answers are provided before the bounty expires?
I added a bounty to this question on June 6th. Today I received a warning that my bounty was expiring and that I should attribute it to one or two answers. However, the only answer to the question is ...
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A question about Daily reputation limit
If I reach maximum reputation of $200$ a day and still get upvotes, will I get more of my reputation back the next day?
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Why can't I offer a bounty of less than 500 reputation?
I wanted to start two other bounties here because "one or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty." However, the only possible amount of reputation I can offer is 500, ...
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Removed Question vs Reputation
Recently, I lost $60$ points of my reputation because a question was removed. The question wasn't a Spam, it was a simple question of fractions but useful for the OP.
The question was
Determine if $\...
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Recurring discrepancies in rep
When I had visited https://math.stackexchange.com/reputation for the first time and seen that it shows lower rep than the main site I triggered rep recalc and forgot about it. When after a while I've ...
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Reputation Glitch
I am having an issues with my reputation. Namely, I get upvoted/have an answer accepted but don't receive any reputation. Examples of this are:
$\mathbb{Q}[X,Y]/(Y^2-X^3)$ is not a UFD
If $K$ is ...
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-15 of reputation. where to check, why? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reputation went down
I've got -15 today - but I even cannot see in my profile why. If I look there everything is empty for today - but if I click on the dropdown near my name ...
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