Questions tagged [reputation]
Questions and discussions on and related to the reputation point system used on the main site.
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Double-counting reputation for migrated questions
Last month I answered a question on MO, which was later migrated to MSE. Upon migration, the up/down votes for my answer were migrated from MO to MSE. That makes sense. What I find strange is that ...
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Weighing votes?
Judging by my own experience, reputation counting is far from perfect. Mine has been growing mostly thanks to answers to easy questions which I've been lucky to be first to read. On the other hand I ...
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Does not upvote always increase reputation?
I've got this
Why did the upvote leave my reputation unchanged?
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Uncomfortable variability of MO reputation
Some of my reputation data on MathOverflow got changed in a past couple of days back and forth twice. In particular, my reputation went up 200 points, then back to the previous state, then up by 160 ...
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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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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 ...
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Does the point system encourage flooding the site with questions?
Presently, it may well seem to users who are not yet familiar with MathOverflow
that flooding the site with questions is desirable and encouraged behavior --
at least this is what the point system ...
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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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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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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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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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A trivia question: reputation dip [duplicate]
Why did my reputation decrease by 300+ points right after the system up-grading?
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Questions and Answers missing
List of my questions and my answers have disappeared in the new updated version today, though the data about how long I have been member, my location etc are intact. The reputation points have come ...
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