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Protected questions should have a higher reputation requirement for editing and approving edits

When a question is protected it requires a certain minimum reputation to answer it. At least on politics SE this is mostly used for questions that are highly politized or opioniated. And it works in ...
quarague's user avatar
-13 votes
1 answer
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Could altering the level of reputation required to view and comment on deleted answers improve people's trust in the impartiality of the site?

I believe that trust in this platform and the quality and impartiality of the information it provides is very important. For this question, my assumption is that one of the things we want to do is to ...
phil1008's user avatar
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-17 votes
3 answers
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Feature of posting a question as an anonymous guest user (without having an account) is not useful and it leads to incorrect answers / comments

Posting a question as an anonymous guest user (without having an account) is allowed but for commenting 50 reputations are required. A guest user (who doesn't have an account) can't accrue any ...
Andrew's user avatar
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1 answer
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Having a chat server for every site

This might seem like a stupid question but I recently found out (okay maybe not that recently) that there are unique chat servers for Stack Overflow and Meta Stack Exchange. Why cannot we have a chat ...
The_AH's user avatar
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1 vote
1 answer
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How can I manage multiple work accounts with my personal Stack Exchange account?

Information Recently I joined a charity organization which requires me to do some light coding. I setup of my new account on Chrome which now has three accounts linked in it (Personal, 9-5 Work, and ...
Pascal Bisson's user avatar
6 votes
1 answer
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Add thousands separator to reputation in Stack Overflow blog header

The Stack Overflow blog is redesigned, and in the new design we are able to log in to the blog. Upon successfully logging in, users are now greeted with a refined header layout that prominently ...
Arulkumar's user avatar
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51 votes
0 answers
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Let's prevent association bonus abuse

The association bonus grants otherwise no-rep users a lot of privileges. That's good if we trust them (great even, since it allows us to flag spam across the network), but could be terrible if we don'...
Laurel's user avatar
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9 votes
1 answer
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Why does the "User was removed" link in the achievements popup link to me?

I had a moment of panic before I found out what this message means from other questions here on meta. Why does clicking on "User was removed" take me to my profile? I wasn't the one who was ...
StingyJack's user avatar
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-28 votes
2 answers
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Allow me to block other users from close-voting my posts to prevent harassment and trolling

The Problem: My daily flags are spent on a handful of people, who I see again the next time I log in with the same nasty behavior. They won't get banned, they actually have huge positive reputations ...
GitButtCoder's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
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Long title breaks strict column design on reputation tab [duplicate]

On the reputation tab in user profile page when the title is long enough it uses columns that are not intended (in my expectation) to be used for question's title: I propose to place question's title ...
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
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2 answers
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Should ongoing support be rewarded with additional upvotes?

I direct your attention to this answer which has been sustained and updated over time. Reading through the answer shows how times change and improvements warrant readdressing questions and answers. ...
Matt's user avatar
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1 answer
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Is there any way to hide my badges and reputation from others?

I ask because I believe badges and reputation serve only in creating implicit bias amongst askers when viewing answers and comments, and on the flip-side amongst commenters and answerers when viewing ...
Tempest's user avatar
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3 votes
2 answers
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If you create a tag, you shouldn't get reputation by adding it to questions

There is a mass edit dump into the Suggested Edit review queue in Music.SE, by me. I'm suggesting several edits adding tritone, a tag that I created, to all tritone-related questions I can find. I don'...
mathlander's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
101 views

Unrecord accidental vote on a site where I have less than 15 reputation [duplicate]

I've accidentally voted on an answer on a site where I have less than 15 reputation. I wanted to undo it, but clicking it again just returns the same message that my vote was "recorded". Is ...
Carla_'s user avatar
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1 answer
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How can I cheat the reputation system?

I have been a full stack web developer and have been using computers for most of my life. I use these Stack Exchange websites a lot, to get answers, as they say, and indeed they are right! I get ...
user avatar
-29 votes
1 answer
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Would anyone support a feature request to give users a "no comments" option when posting a question?

Who would support this idea of a "comments off" toggle on your own questions when you post a question? Requests for clarification would be submitted, and publicly displayed after approval - ...
shigginpit's user avatar
-13 votes
1 answer
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Implementing uber-votes on questions

This question is essentially a variation of Bounty-like facility for rewarding excellent questions in the spirit of GentlePurpleRain's comment here. I reproduce the linked question and comment below: ...
user avatar
7 votes
4 answers
251 views

Should the Community user's reputation be displayed or hidden?

Now and then, the Community user is shown as the last user who modified a post: Since it's a bot and not a real user, would it make sense not to show its reputation (and badges)? The concept of ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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-3 votes
1 answer
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Reward linking questions

Reward linking questions to leverage and organize existing knowledge There is already so much knowledge stored inside the Stack Exchange network. The chance is high that an answered question relates ...
cachius's user avatar
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-12 votes
1 answer
81 views

Grant site permission based on the total accumulated, rather than current, reputation [duplicate]

I've been using Stack Exchange sites for about seven years now, and in that time I've probably accumulated a few thousand reputation points — primarily on Stack Overflow. Recently I was posting a new ...
shoe's user avatar
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-27 votes
2 answers
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Hide the reputation of requester and posters in feature-request tagged posts, to add more guaranties of balanced advice

The more I look at Stack Exchange Meta or Stack Overflow Meta, the more I see the effects of the requester's reputation (and posters' ones) on them. Do you have a lot of gold medals and reputation? ...
Marc Le Bihan's user avatar
-6 votes
1 answer
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Can we see user reputation by tag? [duplicate]

Can we choose a tag and see what users have most reputation in this tag? Example: A list of users that are ordered in a descending order by reputation gained with the tag [ggplot2]. This would show ...
LulY's user avatar
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0 votes
0 answers
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When a user with too little reputation tries to vote, specify the type of vote (upvote or downvote) with the reputation requirement [duplicate]

When trying to cast a upvote with <15 reputation: Thanks for the feedback! You need at least 15 reputation to cast a vote, but your feedback has been recorded. Similarly, when trying to cast a ...
tommyaq's user avatar
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-25 votes
2 answers
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Lower reputation requirement for "reopen" privilege [duplicate]

Some questions are closed by mistake and the current procedure for reopening is very... uhm... bureaucratic. Take a look at this question for example. We have 170 upvotes (the question clearly has ...
jitbit's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
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Indicate reason and origin of small reputation decrease due to removal of an edited question [duplicate]

When one edited (redacted, enhanced) a question and the edit has been accepted, a small reputation (2 points) will be given. It is not very rare that the question is deleted at a later time, which ...
Eldar Sultanow's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
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Searching for questions by users with at least x reputation [duplicate]

Is it possible to search for questions written by users with at least x points in reputation? My motivation for asking is to find questions that are relatively well written and are probably not about ...
Ярослав Рахматуллин's user avatar
-31 votes
1 answer
184 views

Could we get closing a question to cost 1 rep? I suspect people are rep farming by closures [closed]

I've been noticing a weird trend on Stack Overflow lately. Questions getting closed for rules that aren't broken in the question in question, questions getting closed but the closer making zero ...
lilHar's user avatar
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40 votes
8 answers
703 views

Remove the -1 reputation penalty for downvoting answers on Meta.SE

Because other Meta sites in the network don't have their own reputation (instead relying on the reputation of their parent sites), there is no reputation penalty for downvoting answers on those sites. ...
Ryan M's user avatar
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-12 votes
2 answers
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Please edit reputation system to account for previous votes down after receiving first vote up with new contributors

As discussed in Why has there been no reduction in reputation? you cannot go below 1 in reputation, but when receiving the first vote up after receiving votes down, the reputation does not take into ...
Chris Rogers's user avatar
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8 votes
0 answers
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Can we get the ability to boost bounties? [duplicate]

In my opinion, this answer is a prime example of when bounty should be awarded. With that in mind, the OP of the question it answers has an open bounty of 100 reputation to reward the existing answer: ...
Taco's user avatar
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-21 votes
1 answer
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Decrease the gain of reputation for popular questions or answers above certain limits [duplicate]

As I'm new on Stack Overflow I wanted to share my point of view regarding reputation score. I think it's unfair and discouraging for newcomers that old users have billions in score on Stack Overflow. ...
user avatar
11 votes
1 answer
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Include meta reputation in the Users table for meta sites

The table Users returns the same number as reputation if a query is run on the meta site and on the main site. Maybe it would make more sense to user "meta reputation" from meta if the query ...
Martin's user avatar
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2 votes
0 answers
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Show "M" for million-rep users on chat.stackexchange.com [duplicate]

Over at the users listed by reputation page on Chat SE, the users in the "2 comma club" still have their reputation shown in four-digit kays, instead of a nice round M, contrary to this ...
Ollie's user avatar
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-22 votes
2 answers
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Inheritance tax for reputation [duplicate]

I happen to have ~36k rep on Stack Overflow, placing me in the top 0.67% overall, despite only posting about 20 questions in the past 8 years, non of which got over 10 upvotes. This makes me happy, ...
Jakub Hampl's user avatar
-9 votes
1 answer
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Should we prevent "Improve this Question" from appearing when a user has 200 reputation on another site?

When a user gains 200 reputation on any site, the association bonus applies as soon as they join the site. However before they join, they are treated as a 1 rep user. This means that "Improve ...
Anonymous's user avatar
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-6 votes
1 answer
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The off topic notice should include option to migrate in the notice, and allow author to do it [duplicate]

I recently googled for a topic, found a very similar question of the same topic in Stack Overflow, and posted my question. After a few days nobody had answered it, but I found the answer on my own and ...
Ted Shaneyfelt's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
56 views

Reputation on post's revisions page may have "k" or "m" [duplicate]

The reputation on the post's revisions page doesn't not have a thousand ("k") or million ("m"). Usually on the post or Users page, the user's reputation with the "k" or &...
Arulkumar's user avatar
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15 votes
0 answers
260 views

Reinstate the prior prevention against users deleting their accounts immediately if they've cast multiple votes

To provide context (again): For a long while, there's been a feature where users who request deletion of their accounts and meet certain criteria for low activity (currently, not having posted on the ...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
-19 votes
3 answers
195 views

Switch off the gamification for a chosen time

This feature request is about a setting to switch off seeing the positive reputation changes and to freeze or switch off the shown reputation points / graphs / badges. The setting should be available ...
questionto42's user avatar
-28 votes
2 answers
149 views

Can the company lock specific badges?

When I barely started using Meta Stack Exchange, I was surprised that I couldn't access a bronze medal. The "Altruist" badge requires 75 reputation, and the "Commentator" badge 50! ...
user avatar
5 votes
2 answers
129 views

Is there a total score for the whole Stack Exchange stack?

On some days, I'd like to see a summary of my learning & share the knowledge achievements in total, regardless the topic. Closest thing I found is going to the Stack Exchange Network Profile and ...
jave.web's user avatar
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-12 votes
2 answers
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Display user reputation on mouseover for the list of the users who closed the question

Reputation should be displayed on mouseover for each of the users listed in the blue "Closed question" box. This box appears at the top of the closed question. This change will make the look ...
Timur Shtatland's user avatar
7 votes
1 answer
175 views

Why isn't the reputation gained for editing a tag wiki refunded if the tag is burned?

I suggested a tag excerpt edit that got approved. But later, the tag was burned and the wiki "orphaned". Instead of getting a -2 in my reputation, the rep stayed and the link led to a 404 ...
Ollie's user avatar
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15 votes
1 answer
179 views

Users should not be able to unknowingly revoke their own comment rights

I've just found myself in the following situation: I had a little over 100 reputation on CrossValidated and found a question that I wanted to award a bounty to. And so I did, however, this brought me ...
Peter's user avatar
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18 votes
0 answers
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Why is the error message "You need at least 10 reputation to post more ..." not shown during composing a question?

I did create a long question on Stack Overflow which took me about two hours and then I wanted to publish it. Unfortunately it suddenly showed me then, that I am not allowed to post more than eight ...
Michael Uray's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
80 views

Next privilege progress bar: show marginal instead of overall progress

Currently the next privilege progress bar shows 'overall' progress. It would make more sense to show the marginal progress starting from the previously achieved privilege (i.e. reset to 0% after each ...
Nick's user avatar
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-18 votes
1 answer
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I want to reward someone for writing a good answer for my question, but without starting a bounty [duplicate]

I want to reward to someone for writing a good answer for my question. This reward system will be only for the question owner and who gave the answer. Users only will give a reward for an answer of ...
نور's user avatar
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4 votes
1 answer
240 views

99 reputation yet getting "Earn 10 reputation in order to answer this question" [duplicate]

Asking this here because I think this is very likely to be a general behaviour. Some months ago I wrote an answer to a question in Software Engineering that got very bad feedback (two negative votes ...
Tiago Peres's user avatar
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-18 votes
1 answer
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Is the 50 reputation requirement for commenting on questions there to generate activity on the site? [duplicate]

It seems awfully convenient that to be able to ask a clarification or an update, one should have already answered a bunch of unrelated questions. Assuming one answers 10 or 20 questions first, how ...
Altrue's user avatar
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-13 votes
1 answer
94 views

Can we sort tags by the average reputation of the user who added the tag?

High-reputation users tend to be more familiar with the site, and are more likely to add useful tags. Low-rep users often add the first tags they think of when writing a question. Thus... Question: ...
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