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Why did my reputation suddenly increase by 1500 points?
The reputation for an upvote on a question has been changed from +5 to +10, as announced in this blog post: We’re Rewarding the Question Askers. (So now reputation gained from an upvote on a question ...
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How do we earn reputation more easily?
The best way to gain reputation is simply to direct your efforts towards answering questions that aren't closed / do have proper context. Off-topic questions are mostly closed and deleted, so ...
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Will un-accepting an answer affect someone's reputation?
If you unaccept an answer, the author of the answer will lose 15 reputation points. Additionally, you yourself will lose 2 reputation points. However, if you select a new answer, then the new author ...
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Does the reputation system encourage easy answers and low quality questions?
Mathematics, unlike most other branches of human knowledge and experience, is relatively universal in the sense that everyone has to take some mathematics classes in their academic career. This means ...
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Why does the criterion for a good question change with reputation?
Context is everything.
When one of my students asks me "How can I solve question 1", I know what they are asking, I know what they were taught and what tools they have accessible to solving the ...
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Why does the criterion for a good question change with reputation?
I do agree that sometimes higher reputation users are given greater leeway than lower reputation users. This is not just true with questions, but also "answers". This is unfortunate, but also somewhat ...
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Why does the criterion for a good question change with reputation?
I answer questions on math.se for several reasons. In roughly decreasing order of priority:
To help researchers with problems they run into (especially those from fields outside pure math, whose ...
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Why does ‘association bonus’ exist?
The point is that reputation is equivalent with privileges. If you have "enough" on one site, this means that you are familiar with some basic norms as to when to upvote, flag, comment or otherwise ...
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Deduction in rep for downvoting
It helps keep people from getting carried away with downvoting. If you didn't lose any points from it, you could downvote a lot of stuff (and you can kinda see that here on Meta).
That $-1$ point is ...
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Shared rep credits for edits
Nope. If you are to share in the upvotes of an edited question, then you're to share in the downvotes as well. And that would discourage the editing of questions that already have downvotes. This ...
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Isn't rewarding question askers taking away from downvotes?
It is not exactly clear to me what type of answer you are looking for, but for what it's worth:
Yes, as far as reputation points are concerned the relative impact of downvotes on questions is ...
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How do we earn reputation more easily?
I'd be much more empathetic to your question, had you asked "How can I contribute positively to this site?", and not asked only about how you can benefit by earning rep most easily.
There's nothing ...
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A rule on subtracting reputation points
The timeline of this post reveals that you started a bounty worth 100 points on that date. The bounties are deducted from the rep tally immediately.
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Why does the criterion for a good question change with reputation?
In each of the three you linked, the OP knew the material they were asking quite well and the kinds of questions they were asking were rather deep questions about integration and special function ...
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Meta SE reputation
The purpose of votes isn't reputation. The purpose of votes is to determine what the community thinks of a particular post. It happens that on main, posts that are voted on are rewarded/sanctioned by ...
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"Copying" someone else's comment for an answer
Comment-answers are not answers. The system doesn't treat them as answers, no reputation gain is possible, it is not possible for others to upvote [edit: whoops, you can upvote a comment; but it's not ...
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A rule on subtracting reputation points
I will just mention that on the very page you linked you can see that the reputation decrease was due to the bounty, together with name of (and link to) the relevant post.
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How do we earn reputation more easily?
Fortunately, others have done a great job giving real, holistic answers to your question. Here's my own rather opinionated take, which is more of 'a suggestion' than 'an answer'. (But it's far too ...
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Does the reputation system encourage easy answers and low quality questions?
I'm going to invert this a bit.
First, I'll answer your title question: Yes.
...but you probably don't have much of a reason to care, at least for the concerns you seem to be bringing up in the body ...
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Does reputation change if an answer gets deleted due to deletion of original post by vote(s)?
In general, yes, points gained on answers that get deleted because the question gets deleted are lost. Following an undeletion the points are restored.
However, if your post satisfies both of:
has ...
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Average Q/A score?
If you are looking for statistics about this site then data.stackexchange.com is the place to go. You can query the SE database about practically anything. If you don't know SQL you can run some of ...
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Unfriendly Community in Mathematics Stack Exchange
You can't change how people vote on questions. The power to choose one's standards for voting is an individual's own prerogative. I don't think that this is something that needs changing, or should be ...
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What is the reason for this change of reputation? Reputation tab says "-2" and "removed".
You had gotten +2 yesterday for an accepted suggested edit on "Is the following a valid proof that shows a limit does not exist?"
This post you had edited, then got deleted for some reason. As a ...
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Change in computation of "Announcer" badges?
Some people wondered about the same question also on Meta Stack Exchange: What's going on with the Announcer badge?, Suddenly getting “Announcer” badges every few minutes?
Recently, some bug was ...
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Users with only 1 reputation but many posts. How can it happen?
Users can be placed in timed suspension by per-site moderators or SE staff (the reasons for this are varied and as a rule the specific reason is not discussed publicly).
During this period the ...
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Why does my reputation keep going up?
You gain 2 points when you accept an answer (except if you wrote the answer yourself), and you get 5 points if someone upvotes one of your questions.
To "abuse the system" here means that you write ...
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Migrating a question to Meta doesn't decrease reputation
The question still exists on the main site, so they keep their reputation – for now that is.
The question is left as a stub, or pathway to the new site, for 30 days, after which it is automatically ...
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How I can Get reputation?
To be clear, "MathJax" is a version of "TeX" or "LaTeX", which is the current professional standard for typesetting mathematics. It's a little goofy, but not so hard to ...
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Drop in reputation from question that has no downvotes
I suppose this specific case was explained satisfactorily in the comments. I will add a brief explanation about an easier way to find the same information in your profile.
When viewing your reputation ...
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