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User ranking on Stack Overflow

In addition to showing reputation scores, SO should rank users. In the users section, users are ordered by the reputations they have. Each user should also have a unique rank, since many users can ...
s_ruchit's user avatar
  • 559
7 votes
3 answers
175 views

Please add trophies that get awarded to the user who has performed "best" based on a given set of conditions over a period of time

Just to add another layer of make-believe "awards" to the existing reputation and badges, I thought it might be interesting to have something that is transient, based on ranked performance over a ...
Alconja's user avatar
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4 votes
2 answers
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Show user reputation when item was posted

As I suggested in a comment, I am not in favor of rewriting History. Or, the rep score shown next to a user is always the current one. It would be quite interesting to have the one at the posting ...
Steve Schnepp's user avatar
9 votes
4 answers
160 views

Display SO/SU/SF reputation on every platform

Wouldn't it be nice to check someone's reputation on ServerFault or SuperUser even if you're currently browsing StackOverflow? So you could check, how active he/she is on other platform and browse ...
user avatar
101 votes
7 answers
1k views

Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?

This might sound a bit crazy, but hear me out... There's a certain behavior among voters on SO that, while understandable, makes down-voting incorrect or unhelpful answers somewhat counter-productive:...
Shog9's user avatar
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14 votes
2 answers
790 views

New User Rankings

Right now one of the only real ranking in terms of overall performance on Stack Overflow (and related sites, obviously) is the reputation score. I know there are also some rankings per tag, but I am ...
TheTXI's user avatar
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189 votes
23 answers
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Please charge rep for questions after threshold

There was a suggestion on uservoice - now down, that really illustrate the need to stop users from gaming the system by simply asking meaningless, ridiculous question after question to gain rep. We ...
GEOCHET's user avatar
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35 votes
5 answers
625 views

Lower the rep required to edit community wiki posts (or stop calling them "wiki")

A requirement of 750 rep to edit community wiki posts seems too high. 750 rep will take weeks for most users to acquire. Even an extremely active user will take at least 4 days (at a max of 200 rep ...
Kip's user avatar
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-9 votes
7 answers
253 views

How about doing away with rep on Meta Stack Overflow?

I notice a lot of people are marking their MSO questions/suggestions as community wiki, which I think is a good thing. Since this site will be mostly discussion, opinion and feature suggestions, does ...
30 votes
11 answers
1k views

What to do about rep inflation?

Overall reputation scores are headed nowhere but up. Pretty soon there will be thousands of mods. What to do? Thoughts on possibilities: Thousands of mods is fine. Carry on. Adjust the threshold ...
user avatar
9 votes
4 answers
336 views

Editing based on SO reputation [closed]

I like to edit posts on SO — not for spelling errors or edit wars — especially when I see people struggling with the English language (I'm not a native English speaker either) or being ...
user avatar
190 votes
11 answers
10k views

Reputation for comments?

I have seen many good comments that really improve the quality of questions and answers, and I think they deserve a bit of reputation (maybe just 1 point) for a upvote.
user avatar
88 votes
11 answers
2k views

Should there be anonymous answers (and questions)?

The question by Joel on Logo got me thinking. This has been raised on UserVoice, but has been declined. Would someone with lesser rep or a less famous name have received the same number of votes/...
ChrisF's user avatar
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10 votes
4 answers
343 views

Reputation for Badges

Should some badges come with added reputation? For example: Civic Duty gives you +100 reputation. I'm not advocating reputation for every badge just a select few.
Richard Stelling's user avatar
23 votes
7 answers
604 views

Should SO introduce a Re-Bounty feature

I recently created a bounty for a question on Stack Overflow The bounty deadline came and went without a suitable answer (IMO). Because I wasn't happy with any of the answers I didn't accept any. ...
Richard Stelling's user avatar

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