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Can MO go back to +5 rep for questions? Should it?

Let me answer from the perspective of someone who is not a mathematician but follows this community for certain topics of interest. This is a community of professional mathematicians where, indeed, ...
Massimo Ortolano's user avatar
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Reputation and badges are no longer visible next to the users' names

This is not a mistake. It’s an intentional change to the site that the board and moderators agreed on. We coordinated poorly and did not have a formal announcement ready when the change rolled out; ...
Ben Webster's user avatar
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Can MO go back to +5 rep for questions? Should it?

I received a huge reputation boost from this change, but I still think that answering a question still takes much more effort than writing well-posed questions. Coming up with a good mathematical ...
HenrikRüping's user avatar
19 votes

We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!

My favorite JDH paragraph, from Have you solved problems in your sleep?, is worth quoting in full. At times, naturally, it is an interesting (or obsessive) MathOverflow question that I set myself to ...
15 votes

Can MO go back to +5 rep for questions? Should it?

I don't have a strong opinion on this subject, but insofar as I have one, it is this: Changing the rules is more trouble than it's worth. I lost points back when +10 was downgraded to +5, and I ...
Timothy Chow's user avatar
15 votes

We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!

A lot of Joel David Hamkins best questions are things which are really elementary in statement, but quickly lead to thorny logical issues. Examples here are this question about a game involving ...
14 votes
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Is it possible to know the list of removed users?

Let me first say that I'll try to answer your question generally, not to concentrate on the specific user you're looking for. So I understand the question as: "Is it possible to find user account ...
Martin Sleziak's user avatar
14 votes

Viewing reputation and badges is now opt-in and compatible with the new front page

Maybe it might be useful to collect examples of some situations where it is actually useful to see the users reputation. (In the other words, some cases in which MO users might want to switch the ...
13 votes

Reputation and badges are no longer visible next to the users' names

For users with an ad-blocker who want the old behaviour back: it seems adding https://cdn.sstatic.net/Js/webpack-chunks/8844.6aa9de60ac9aca9f14f4.en.js to your ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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Where did the reputation go?

StackExchange is constantly evolving. Since the script is maintained by the moderators, and we are not notified in advance about these changes, we have no choice but to be reactive. Changes happen, ...
Asaf Karagila's user avatar
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13 votes

We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!

My favorite answer by Joel was to the fourth question I ever asked on MathOverflow, six years ago. I was just recently wishing there was an 'MO appreciation thread' on meta where users could express ...
12 votes
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How can this user have a negative year reputation?

They offered almost 4000 reputation in bounties so far this year: https://mathoverflow.net/users/8133/noah-schweber?tab=bounties Note that the -4827 is the decrease in rank, not in reputation, that's '...
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10 votes
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5 points for an upvote to an answer?

There is daily reputation limit of 200 reputation points - meaning that it is not possible to get more than 200 reputation points in a single day from upvotes. (It is still possible to get more ...
Martin Sleziak's user avatar
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How could I compute my "candidate score"?

The criteria are described exactly in What are the details on the "candidate score" which shows during an election?. Moreover, What would my Election Candidate score be? includes a link to a ...
Emil Jeřábek's user avatar
9 votes

Reviving questions from the PROMYS application?

This is a genuinely tricky question. I incline toward agreeing with the policy that while we can try to keep problems off the site while applications are open, we can't be expected to play whack-a-...
Ben Webster's user avatar
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9 votes

We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!

His answer, explaining different ways to think about the continuum hypothesis is a really good one.
8 votes
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An error in calculations of percents in reputations?

If you click on the number "0.0x%", the links gets you to reputation league for MathOverflow. (The link given in the question is actually list of the registered users and not the reputation league.) ...
Martin Sleziak's user avatar
8 votes
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Rep being recalculated: Qs get +10 now?

The recalculation is being processed in parallel across the entire network. Since it's run per user, some users on a site might get the change before others. We also had technical difficulties that ...
Jon Ericson's user avatar
8 votes
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Serial voting was reversed

It pretty much coincides with my reputation reversal of one vote on another site in the network. Normal serial voting reversals happen around 3am UTC, and I asked about it here - the response I got ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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8 votes

We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!

As an amateur mathematician with an interest in set theory and computability, I have to say JDH has probably advanced my mathematical knowledge in those areas more than anyone else (there are some ...
7 votes
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Reputation for editing deleted questions disappears into memory hole?

If you check the checkbox "show removed posts" on your reputation tab, you should see also the reputation lost when post with your suggested edit was removed. You can check the section "My reputation ...
Martin Sleziak's user avatar
7 votes

Can MO go back to +5 rep for questions? Should it?

I am not against the change, but I am strongly against the change being implemented retroactively. I felt the same way when question upvotes were changed from 10 points to 5 points retroactively, and ...
Tony Huynh's user avatar
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6 votes
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Undo accepting the answer

Here is a comprehensive description of actions which lead to reputation change, and by how much: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/269653/why-did-i-gain-lose-reputation-can-i-audit-my-...
Todd Trimble's user avatar
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6 votes

Derivative of reputation score over time is identically zero

The questions that you have answered on MathOverflow are all "Community Wiki" posts, and votes on these don't affect reputation. What are "Community Wiki" posts? Questions that ask for a ...
Jeremy Rickard's user avatar
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My answer got upvoted, but no reputation increase?

That's a community wiki answer, and you don't get any reputation for upvotes on them (nor do you lose any from downvotes). The idea behind this is that they're easy to edit (for everybody with at ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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6 votes
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Reputation displays after an edit even if opted out

We rolled out the fix. Thank you for noticing that bug.
Asaf Karagila's user avatar
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6 votes

We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!

Congratulations to professor Hamkins for this achievement! I hope I am not off the rails here, since his answers are mostly above my level of understanding. But I wanted to mention his great book ...
6 votes

We have our first user with more than 200K reputation!

As for favorites (or "favourites", if you like), I will go with this one for narrow selfish reasons. It is his answer to a question of mine that I intended less than fully literally, but he ...
6 votes

Is there a penalty for merely looking at a question, comments and an answer?

To summarise the conversation in the comments, it seems Thomas may have accidentally downvoted some answers while browsing on a phone (I've done the same, especially when the screen reflows because of ...
David Roberts's user avatar
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5 votes

Apparent bug in reputation calculator

As explained in Todd Trimble's comment, It's Community Wiki. You don't gain or lose reputation points when a thread is in CW. Further reading: What are “Community Wiki” posts?
Andrew T.'s user avatar
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible