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Congratulations, André!
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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Reputation points for less elementary questions and answers are low
I've read yesterday in the meta section (by I don't remember exactly where) few comments about some recommendations to encourage less elementary questions and proofs by upvoting them. I have to ...
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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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Promotion implies higher rep needed for privileges, and nobody has such
One of the consequences of being promoted out of beta is that much higher rep is now needed for all privileges - so high that very few users have such rep. Currently we have no 10K users and hence ...
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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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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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Why should the user profile only show “positive reputation changes”?
In the new user profile page if one enters a user page of someone that only received downvotes in the past few days, instead of that you see a note:
This user has no recent positive reputation ...
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“user was removed” again [closed]
This time (seven hours ago, apparently), my "reputation" went down by 208 points, so it must have been someone who's done a lot of posting here.
It's hard not to suspect that users who've been around ...
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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 ...
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What's the daily reputation record?
My understanding is the most reputation one can gain in one day from votes is 200. But, through accepted answers, they can get another 15 per accepted answer. So, technically, there is no limit.
Is ...
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day vs week rep gain
When I hover over the triangle on StackExchange, I find I have gained 45 rep today, but only 30 this week. Is there a different cutoff time?
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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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Did you recently lose a large or unusual number of reputation points?
This is more of a general announcement, I guess, but today I happened to run a reputation recalc on my account (which one can do by going here), and I noticed that I lost 104 points. This is an ...
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How to post answer without gaining “reputation” points and without CW?
Is there a way to post answers without gaining reputation points but retaining the higher editing barrier (or "authorship" if that concept applies here) of an ordinary, non-community-wiki posting? I ...
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Reviewing past reputation raises error message
When I go to my profile, click on the "reputation" tab, and choose either the "post" or "time" views, I get the error message "Error occurred when loading post body" when trying to open a past date ...
