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More descriptive "User was removed" explanation
Currently, when rep is changed due to the removal of another user account (to undo the rep gain/loss that happened when they up-/down-voted/accepted/were downvoted by you), the associated message is ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Change rep required to downvote on MSE
To make your opinion known on MSE you need both up and downvotes. Given at the moment you need 125 rep to downvote on this site, the voting patterns will be skewed positive because not everyone is ...
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Display lost/negative reputation in topbar achievements
When you get reputation, you get a +X green spot on your reputation feed telling you that you gained reputation and if you drop down the menu, you get more detail.
How about we make it that when you ...
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Allow bounty to be set with reputation from another site?
Here's one to get shot down: How about letting bounties to be set using the reputation gained through the use of another site? So, for instance, I'm a programmer with a high Stack Overflow rep who ...
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Propose a new 20k reputation privilege [closed]
Right now, the maximum privilege "unlock" is at 10k reputation:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges
We're considering adding a new 20k reputation privilege, but having a hard time figuring out ...
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Lower the amount of reputation needed to comment
This question is a great example of people coming from Google and using answers as comments.
I understand the reputation threshold is there to prevent spam, but Answers are just as prone to spam as ...
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Bounty-like facility for rewarding excellent questions
Amongst the reasons for starting a bounty, one can select:
Reward existing answer
One or more of the answers is exemplary and worthy of an additional bounty.
Why not enable one to reward ...
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Self-instigated rep recalc [closed]
In a few situations, it's nice to be able to get a rep recalc "on demand." In the past, I've simply pinged Marc Gravell about this, but it would be good not to have to bother him.
As an example, this ...
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Show 3 significant figures for rep over a million [closed]
With "reputation to the max" I now have 6,621,210 reputation. Unfortunately, this only shows as 6.6m:
Other reputation levels are shown with three or more significant digits - e.g. 508k as Darin's ...
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Let me reward a good edit on my question/answer
Often an edit to one of my questions or answers will make it a lot better. The edit can constitute more to the site than someone posting another answer or comment.
Some users make quite a lot of good ...
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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:...
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Propose a privilege to sit in the 500 reputation mark
As determined from earlier discussions, the retag privilege serves a lot more confusion and a lot less of its benefit due to the suggested edit system. It must be done away with. It will be done away ...
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If downvoting is so important, why does it cost reputation?
I've just read that downvoting is used to ban poor askers. However, there are many, many members who will never dare downvote anything because of that little 1 rep. (Besides, I think downvoting is not ...
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