Questions tagged [reputation]
For questions about reputation, a measurement of a user's contributions to the site, and the extent to which the community "trusts" that user with extra privileges
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Will something happen when reputation reaches 100k?
What will happen when reputation reaches 100k? Nothing or something?
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Should U&L participate in the "1 reputation voting" change?
Some of you may have seen the Meta feed message in /dev/chat, but for those who haven't: If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites.
I am not in a ...
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To what extent the badges or reputation are transmitted from one SE site to another?
I found out that there are badges, e. g. the Autobiographer which can be awarded for a site if the condition for it was fulfilled on another SE site.
Every time I join a new SE site, I directly get ...
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Why is the reputation required to answer a question enormously high at 50?
I appreciate the level of professionalism here, but why is the reputation required to answer a question enormously high at 50 ?
I am a professionally experienced expert and because of the threshold to ...
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Can I put a bounty on a question using reputation from stack overflow?
The title sums up my question. I am having an issue that I cannot FOR THE LIFE OF ME figure out, I have even gone through system logs to try and figure out the issue and have googled everything that ...
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chronological list of points earned
I keep a text file record of my points earned in various SE QA forums.
The points icon just showed up in the Unix & Linux header telling me I earned 10 more. But my total points is 20 greater than ...
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Why is commenting restricted to 50 rep? [duplicate]
Why is it allowed to answer a questions, but for comments 50 reputation is needed. Isn't an answer much higher weighted than a comment, where you can point out something to the questioner without ...
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Top answers downvoted at the same time. Someone with an axe to grind?
My four top rated answers at Unix & Linux got downvoted, apparently within minutes of each other.
Here is a screenshot.
I don't really mind it, as it doesn't practically affect my reputation... ...
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how does one raise his reputation? [duplicate]
Pretty obvious, when you are new here you need to build up your reputation by commenting on unanswered questions. However, when i try to it gives me an error that says Iam not allowed to comment ...
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Why is there a reputation requirement for comments, but not for answers?
In the "low quality" and "first post" review queues, I regularly see answers that should have been posted as comments instead.
In many cases, the poster even acknowledges this and points out that they ...
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What is the definition of a "high-reputation user"?
Multiple users have been removed recently, and just yesterday one account, which connected all of them, was deleted as well. On this occasion other people have been massively un-upvoted. Removed ...
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Should I refrain from correcting syntax/coding errors in answers? It seems like they aren't encouraged
I provided a comment to a question/answer about the scp command.
Someone noticed a single character error in a command over there, and he was upset because it had cost him and his team time. I ...
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Do you gain points back when deleting question/answer?
It happens sometimes; you answer or ask a question, but people don't like it. You get downvotes. Hiding your head in shame, you delete your post, so that no one knows about this. Do you get your ...
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5k .. 10k reputation bug? header shows (unavailable) own suggested edit
I have a really minor question. Now that I'm (just) over 5k in reputation, I have the approve tag wiki edits privilege (which I haven't had a chance to use yet), but I think it's causing my Unix.SE ...
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Why is deleting answers discouraged?
I deleted two answers of mine, because after some thinking I came to the conclusion those answers were not very good and/or not really my field of expertise:
how to allocate more storage for home ...
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