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W.K.T, when a user got a downvote for his posts before getting any reputations will not get any negative reputations.

So, after getting positive reputations, the user should get his penalty(-2) since his/her reputations can get substracted to get a positive number.

But, it doesn't happen like that in SO. for ex, take this question, it got 3 downvotes and 3 upvotes and see the user's reputations.

Is this an issue or the fact of SO.

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    It's by design.
    – J. Steen
    Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 7:04
  • @JoshCaswell Good find. The title and wording made it fairly difficult to find, for me. Not quite a duplicate IMHO though (it handles the "user at 1 rep, gets downvote, what happens"-case), even if one of the answers would answer this. =)
    – J. Steen
    Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 7:11
  • @J.Steen: I just happened to remember having seen something like this before.
    – jscs
    Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 7:13
  • @JoshCaswell That seems to be the case with most duplicate-identifications. Meta users are rather... active, I find. =)
    – J. Steen
    Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 7:14
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    @J.Steen: The last time I tried to escape, they gave me the hose. :p
    – jscs
    Commented Feb 11, 2013 at 7:17

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You can only lose reputation that you've first gained, so you first need to gain reputation. Everything, with some exceptions, happens according to a timeline.

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