Questions tagged [reputation]
Questions and discussions on and related to the reputation point system used on the main site.
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Viewing reputation and badges is now opt-in and compatible with the new front page
This announcement is a little late (see the discussion here), but in response to discussions over many years, we (the moderators and board) have implemented a change to the site where by default, ...
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Reputation and badges are no longer visible next to the users' names
Right now it seems that a bug is affecting MO: reputation and badges are no longer displayed next to the users' names.
This happens both on the front page:
as well as on pages of individual questions:...
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Has there been a recalculation of reputation?
At the risk of being too venal: yesterday I had over 8500 and now I am under 7900. Anyone else experienced changes with similar orders of magnitude?
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5 points for an upvote to an answer?
just a curiosity, how is it possible to receive 5 points for an upvote to an answer to this question
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Reputation not moving up while having 27 upvotes
Do you have a clue why my reputation os not moving up while the last question I asked has 27 upvotes?
Thanks, Jean-Pierre.
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Derivative of reputation score over time is identically zero [duplicate]
I've got a smattering of upvotes on my small number of answers but my reputation has never budged. Can someone explain why this is so?
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Opting out of reputation
[Disclaimer. I'm making this feature request not because I want it nor because I think it's a good idea, but because I heard it so often that there is need to discuss it. Please don't shoot the ...
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Development of the MathOverflow community
From the Stack Exchange Data Explorer one can obtain the following data:
Number of people who joined MO in the last 4 years and have collected at least 10000 points: 96
Number of people who joined ...
Stefan KohlMod
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Loss of reputation because a "user was removed"
I just noticed that I lost 10 points of rep because "user was removed". I don't get it.
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My answer got upvoted, but no reputation increase?
My reputation score seems to be stuck at 510 even if some of my answers were up-voted recently.
How do I fix this bug? How do I contact the moderators in order to solve (or at least understand) the ...
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We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!
Congratulations to Joel David Hamkins who on (I think!) the 27th November 2022, was the first MathOverflow user to pass 200k reputation! Since Joel joined on the 19th November 2009, he has supplied ...
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Statistics showing that more reputation for questions leads to better questions
One of the more controversial aspects of the transition to MO2.0, for myself at least, was the reduction in the reputation added for upvotes on questions asked from +10 to +5, while retaining the ...
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Can MO go back to +5 rep for questions? Should it?
In case you missed the news, upvotes on questions now grant +10 reputation instead of +5, and the change has been implemented retroactively (most if not all users have already had their reputation ...
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Hiding reputation
In MathOverflow 1.0 we had the ability to hide other users' reputations. Can we get that again?
(Also, I had to rewrite this question several times to get past an annoying box that said my question ...
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Why adding a comment requires 50 reputation points?
When a new member tries to write a comment he sees “add comment (requires 50 reputation)” but of course he has no so many points. On the other hand, answering does not require any reputation. Then the ...
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What does "serial upvoting reversed" mean?
In my reputation history I see that I lost 75 points of reputation because of "serial upvoting reversed." What does that mean?
It seems that this question was asked in passing in this discussion and ...
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How did I lose all my reputation points?
At the beginning of the summer I had around 1,172 reputation points. I didn't log on for a few months. Then, I saw that the site looked a little different and I looked at my profile and saw that I ...
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An error in calculations of percents in reputations?
Looking at the MO reputation league I found that it shows up 1767 screens, all screns but the last one show up 9x4=36 users and the last screen shows 27 users. So totally MO has 1766x36+27=63 603 ...
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Mysterious one point rep increase
Yesterday my reputation total increased by 1 point. As far as I know there is (was) no action which would trigger 1 point increase (downvoting gives $-1$, accepting an answer gives $+2$, etc.) I am ...
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Is there an association bonus for this site?
I used to have a 1 rep MO account. After the SE2.0 merger, I logged in, and while the accounts are showing up associated, I have not received the association bonus.
My MO profile is still the same, ...
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How could I compute my "candidate score"?
I have noticed that, during elections for moderators, the candidates are awarded a "candidate score", computed from their activity on MO.
Is its algorithm public, so that I be able to ...
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What happens to reputation when I get merged?
A while ago I sent an email to the stackexchange team on recovering my account https://mathoverflow.net/users/21278/ben-lim. They said I should create a new account and merge it with the old one. This ...
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Why not restoring the + 10 reputation for questions but make each negative vote also count -10 reputation?
To maintain MO alive and well, we need a regular flow of good questions, and not too many bad questions. It seems to me that one has given more weight to the latter, forgetting the former which in my ...
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Serial downvoting
I received 4 downvotes within a short amount of time, I suspect it has been the same person.
I think a mechanism should be installed that no user $u$ can downvote more than one post with a positive ...
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