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Why would an answer receive less than +10 reputation from an upvote?
Congratulations!
You have hit the daily reputation cap (200, that is).
You can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day from any combination of the activities below. Bounty awards, accepted answers, ...
NVZMod
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Is it because of insufficient reputations that "reopen" button under closed questions cannot be seen?
Yes, you need at least 250 reputation to see and cast close/reopen votes on your own questions and at least 3000 reputation to do so on any question.
This is a screenshot I took of one of my questions ...
LaurelMod
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Why do I have so much increase in reputation all of a sudden?
This is the Association Bonus, which is given to all your associated accounts when you reach 200 points on one of them. You can get to your reputation changes from your user profile page: click on ...
Andrew LeachMod
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How do I gain reputation so I can participate more?
That's not quite how reputation works. Voting for other people's answers (and questions) gives those people reputation (except on meta). Also, nobody gets reputation from comments, even when they are ...
LaurelMod
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Why is my reputation getting smaller?
There is no automatic rep loss when you reach a certain rep. There is no rep loss when you get flags declined.
You did receive 2 downvotes today (23/1/18) as seen on your reputation history. Perhaps ...
NVZMod
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Why doesn't the reputation increase for upvotes on comments?
Help center explains a lot about comments, and is a must read.
Comments are temporary "Post-It" notes left on a question or answer. They can be up-voted (but not down-voted) and flagged, but do not ...
NVZMod
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Why could a 2 reputation user complete a review exercise?
Because it was a review of a suggested edit on their own post, something the post's owner has a binding vote on.
tchristMod
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Why did I get downvotes on my answer, while a similar late answer got upvotes?
The two downvotes (so far) on the OP's submitted answer were probably from users who had not read the post carefully, they probably thought the first suggestion, peep show, was "bad", or "incorrect", ...
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Why can edits to a closed question be rejected as "should have been written as a comment or an answer"?
A one line, low effort question should not be reopened. Even if the author was still engaged with the site, they shouldn't be rewarded for the extensive rewrite needed to salvage it unless they did ...
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Deleting answers with a positive rep balance
As the comments above suggest, your answer was flagged as low-quality and therefore removed by the community (or by a moderator, perhaps. See why).
I recall that I had posted a comment asking you to ...
NVZMod
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Why does reputation increase by 1?
Your reputation may increase by 1 if an answer you downvoted is deleted.
You can see all the individual events that affected your reputation by going to your Profile->Activity->Reputation.
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Shouldn't we lose 1 rep for downvoting questions?
Let me turn this around and ask: what impact does the existing -1 penalty for downvoting an answer have on user behaviour?
Well, for a high-rep user who might be accruing (say) 3 upvotes a week from ...
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Accepted an answer but didn't receive the two reputation award
You received 2 reputation points by accepting the answer to your question but someone downvoted your post and you got -2 so it didn't show up (i.e. +2 -2 = 0).
Your initial reputation was 101 then you ...
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Why did I get downvotes on my answer, while a similar late answer got upvotes?
Nobody knows why driveby downvoters vote the way they do because they leave no indication of their thinking. These people are a curse and a plague on this site because they either leave the OP no ...
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Does deleting former posts add reputation?
Deleting posts which have a negative score and which have attracted a penalty thereby should restore the reputation lost. It's a little more complicated than that, because all votes are reversed.
An ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Any way of filtering questions by user rep? If not, why not?
I tried to create a data.SE query to get this for you:
Questions by users with high rep
I arbitrarily chose the most recent 20, and rep >= 20,000.
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What is the purpose of reputation on ELU?
NVZ's answer is correct and based on the principles of Stack Exchange, but my thoughts are too long to post in comments, so I'll add them as an answer.
Let's face it, earning reputation is fun. As ...
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Shouldn't we lose 1 rep for downvoting questions?
We don’t need more LQQs. We need fewer. The best way to deprioritize the ones we get, and preempt getting any new ones is to downvote them.
Consistently.
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What is the purpose of reputation on ELU?
Well, you know, the help center says:
Reputation is a rough measurement of how much the community trusts you; it is earned by convincing your peers that you know what you’re talking about.
And ...
NVZMod
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Why can edits to a closed question be rejected as "should have been written as a comment or an answer"?
A question somewhat similar to the ethernet vs. Ethernet question that piqued your interest popped up ages ago in connection with the World Wide Web words internet/Internet and web/Web. See Should the ...
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If you give a bounty, can you earn it back without counting toward the daily rep limit?
No, the maximum reputation you can ever earn for upvotes in a day is always capped at 200. It doesn’t matter whether you have lost reputation because of starting a bounty, or because people have ...
tchristMod
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What is the purpose of reputation on ELU?
One very important reason we have reputation points is to spend them. There are two main ways to spend them: bounties, and downvoting bad answers.
With 15.2K rep you could give a prize to over 300 ...
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I have deleted my downvoted questions and answers, but there's no change in my reputation
From what I can see of your reputation, you do appear to have recovered the losses incurred from downvoting.
With the baptism/christening question, your November 22 answer and your November 23 answer ...
Andrew LeachMod
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Why upvotes for questions in this meta site not added to reputation?
Only one meta site has the reputation system; Meta Stack Exchange.
There is no main Q&A site in that case.
That is, simply stackexchange.com is not for questions and answers, but meta....
NVZMod
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Why doesn't the reputation increase for upvotes on comments?
Many comments that are not helpful to understanding the question get upvotes because they are funny or clever. If comments contributed to reputation, every comment with upvotes above the threshhold ...
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Can sub-15 rep users flag their own content?
Yes they can.
A one-rep user can flag the following:
I am flagging to report this question as...
should be closed...
This question is completely unclear, incomplete, overly-broad, primarily opinion-...
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Suggestion: Capping points that can be earned for a single-word request
It depends on exactly what you mean, which is 95% clear, but not 100% clear. I'm going to assume you mean capping at 200 rep points for each single word answer, in which case, thinking out loud here, ...
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Why does reputation increase by 1?
Although it's not particularly clear when looking at this page (because the events didn't happen in this order), the complete summary of your reputation on this site can be summarized as follows:
...
LaurelMod
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