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At some point in the past day I seem to have gained roughly 4547 reputation. There's no entry on my reputation page that would explain it, and my reputation audit shows an end result of 1374. I've also gained all relevant privileges, such as voting to close.

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Reputation leagues show a more realistic number:

https://stackexchange.com/leagues/4/year/meta/2021-01-01/200898#200898

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    Guess: They're serving SO rep again, just like when I asked my first question here. User number 200898 on SO has 5922 rep...
    – Tinkeringbell Mod
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:10
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    Interesting how upvotes on this question are incrementing it, assuming that's the case
    – Kevin B
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:14
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    There's meta.stackexchange.com/questions/43004/… that might help.
    – Robert Longson
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:15
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    And a lot of new Yearling badges followed.
    – francescalus
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:15
  • seems it isn't just affecting me
    – Kevin B
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:19
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    Similar things happen for me too, on Meta I should have 131 rep, but I get shown 9.342, which is also in no clear relation to my SO rep (1.052) or my total summed up rep (3.096).
    – Tobias F.
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:20
  • @KevinB no, it's not just you. And it's not just people getting reputation either, this user seems to have lost all of theirs for a while. I'm curious if that has an effect on their privileges here.
    – Tinkeringbell Mod
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:21
  • If my case is anything to go by, I'd assume they lost their privileges just like I gained some. (I have confirmed the privileges actually work)
    – Kevin B
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:22
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    @TobiasF. the way this works is that it isn't showing you your SO rep, but that of a total stranger that has the same user id on SO as you have on MSE (in this case, 402870). So you're seeing the reputation of stackoverflow.com/users/402870/iamnan
    – Tinkeringbell Mod
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:22
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    I just noticed this about my own rep due to yearling badges. I searched but found nothing until I went to the main M.SE feed. The way you have phrased the issues in this post make it very unlikely anyone else could find it searching.
    – philipxy
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:23
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    We're investigating
    – Taryn
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:24
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    And we're working on a fix.
    – Taryn
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:34
  • On your MSE profile, I presume. What is it now?
    – This_is_NOT_a_forum
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:47
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    It is now 1424, aka correct
    – Kevin B
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:48
  • @Taryn also see the case of this user.
    – bad_coder
    Commented Jul 22, 2021 at 16:57

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This has not been a good week! A global re-sync route that synced main users to their meta equivalents (which itself needed to happen because the profile image code is icky) had a code path that persisted rep to the database of wherever the route was executed rather than the one we were supposed to be operating on.

In this case I was syncing Stack Overflow to Meta Stack Overflow but executing the route via Meta Stack Exchange - that meant that user ids from Stack Overflow ended up trampling rep on their Meta Stack Exchange equivalents. Fortunately we have ample history to restore rep to its correct value - that process is wrapping up now and we'll remove inadvertently granted "Yearling" badges when it's done.

UPDATE

Inadvertently granted yearling badges have been revoked, things are back as they should be.

Apologies for the surprise!

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