I am trying to figure out how the top answerers score is calculated for a given tag. I saw the post below, but when I checked my own score It has a value of 2, but I have 3 Up Votes and No Down Votes. Are the scores only updated periodically?
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How often is my total score for a particular tag calculated. I've gotten several recent upvotes under android but my total score hasn't seem to have gone up. When I say total score, I mean like the total score displayed on this .
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I've noticed a psychological effect with my own voting, and am curious to know whether anyone else sees the same thing. Simply put, if I see a correct or good answer, I don't always upvote it, if the answer has some reasonable number of votes already. Similarly, if a post already has several downvotes, I usually don't bother downvoting further (some sort of "they've been punished enough" logic, I suppose).  I think this is because in my head I'm unconsciously thinking of the number of votes as a 'rating' or 'score' indicating the quality of the answer. I then find myself thinking "this answer is correct, and the best one here, but it's not that great, it's worth about 4 points." So I don't upvote. Although it's hard to disentangle from other variables like number of views or age, I suspect the same effect may be a feature on many of my own answers rated by others - the answer reaches some sort of natural level, as judged by the community... and then sits there, with only very minor subsequent increments.  Since becoming aware of this tendency in myself, I've been thinking more carefully about what the vote represents. There are clear problems with using the number of votes as a quality rating, the most obvious of which is that the scale isn't normalised in size, and is also function of time. But, irrational as it is, I still feel this bias against answers with votes (positive or negative)!  To summarise my question:   Has anyone else experienced this? Do you ever find yourself voting in this way, or should a good answer always receive an upvote? Is there a general consensus on what a vote represents?
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I posted this as an answer to another question, but after some thought, I think it qualifies as a feature request in its own right.  I would like to see a per-tag breakdown (based on a question's tag list) of each answerer's reputation in addition to their lump sum reputation.  Something like this:  Question is tagged with:     C# winforms combobox   An answer would look like this:     Blah blah blah       Eric 200 &nbsp;&nbsp;C#170  &nbsp;&nbsp;winforms50  &nbsp;&nbsp;combobox10   This would give more insight into how credible a person's answer is.  I think it will also be more rewarding for people that are more active in less popular tags.  I'm not sure how difficult it would be to implement though.
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I very recently earned the below badge. But I am sorry, I do not understand it.    It says      Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 answers in the java tag.   But I have answered 140 questions under Java tag and pretty sure would have earned more than 100 points. Then why did I receive it so late. Currently I have 3.3K points on SO.  Secondly if so, I have answered about 41 questions under Scala tag, then why didn't I receive this badge for Scala?
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I have first downvoted an answer. Then, I decided to leave it the way it was before, meaning to undo my downvote just like it never existed, so I upvote to remove my downvote. Suprise! SO seems to consider it as two upvotes!  Let's say I have an answer with -3, then I decide to downvote it making it -4. After deeper thoughts, I prefer to remove my downvote to let it the way it was before I downvoted, meaning -3, but SO makes it -2 automatically!     Wouldn't it be supposed -3, and not -2? If someone else would have upvoted, it would have made it an upvote +1, not a +2!   Am I missing something here?  In fact, is there a way to tell SO that I only wish to undo my downvote, and not upvote the answer? I may understand why it does behave this way. I only wish to undo my downvote, though.
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On the , in order to be able to propose a tag synonym you need:     more than 2500 reputation and a total answer score of 5 or more on the tag   What about people with a high question score on a tag, shouldn't we be able to suggest them to? For the tag I was planning to suggest a synonym for, I currently have a total question score of 17, but I'm not allowed to suggest them as I've not got the answer score. Would it not make sense to say require an answer score of 5, or a question score of perhaps 10? (Or maybe even 5, but given that question score doesn't currently count perhaps the bar needs to be set higher)
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On the "Next tag badge" panel of  for C# tag, I see:      92/100 score   88/20 answers     But, when I open the "Select your next badge" panel, there's:     97/100 score   90/20 answers       I'm not sure which one is correct. But I believe that both displays should show the same counts.  The discrepancy is not due to a caching, I've noticed it the first time many weeks ago.  For these particular current counts: I have a single C# answer with 3 votes only in the last 5 days, last upvoted 13 hours ago (2015-10-12 19:30:05Z). So it should not cause the 5 votes and 2 answers difference.  I believe that the counters on the "Select your next badge" are correct and the counters on the "Next tag badge" are wrong, as I have:     Asked 1 non-wiki question with a total score of 6. Gave 90 non-wiki answers with a total score of 97.       Today (2015-10-16), the "Next tag badge" got bumped to 97/100. But "Select your next badge" shows 98/100 already.
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I noticed today that I can add a tag to my "favorite tag" list that does not yet exist.  I then went to ask a question using that tag and was told I do not yet have enough rep to create new tags.    So my question is this:    If someone else creates that same tag, do I get any credit for coming up with it first (as shown by the fact that I listed it in my favorite tag list), or is the fact that it appears in my favorite list, even though it doesn't yet exist, just a placeholder for when it does.
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I just observed related questions  contained a post that has a score higher than 999, causing it to look different from the others:        I think it should be consistent.  As per , either it should show 1k or it should look something like:        The post is marked as status-completed but it still appearing not fixed to me:
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Pundit  Left 10 comments with score of 5 or more   I saw a discussion question that mentioned Pundit, which that stated that , however, something like top voted comments seems to fit in with the rest of stackoverflows feature set, as well as indirectly provide a method to track progress on this badge. Should there be (or is there already) a list of my top voted comments somewhere?
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Someone's asked  the answer being that it's intended to help people learn about the site's functionality. Answering your own question  and there's a feature to .   The number of unanswered questions, on Stack Overflow at least, , so why not encourage people to fill in the blanks by answering their own questions more regularly?  I'm of two minds about the route to go down. I initially though of something like a silver self-learner badge with some conditions as follows: answer your own +3 scored question with an answer with a score of +5 but as there are only  open, unanswered questions with a score of 3 or more it seems fairly pointless.  A better way would be to allow people to earn a "self-learner" type badge multiple times but to stop people from getting it solely for self-answering. You could have a bronze badge (, or whatever) for people who:   Self-answer a positively scored question - This should not be open to negatively scored questions and I'd be wary of 0 scored to stop a deluge of people wanting the badge. That has not received an answer with a score of more than 1 since it was posted - Not completely sure about this but the goal is to answer the questions without answers More than 24 hours after the question was posted - Otherwise FGITW etc; the point is to get all the old questions answered. With a score of 2 or more - Otherwise you could answer it with anything, which is useless for the internet. Maybe +3 might be more appropriate?   There are  positively scored, unclosed questions with 0 answers so getting some of these answered is a worthy cause.
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Let's just assume that I've hit the rep cap and got the Mortarboard. None of mine have extra scores (i.e) from accepted answers, bounties, etc. All are up-voted posts. I've got some 300 points but the engine stops at 200. Now, we've to count the down-vote. I got down-votes up to some -6. Now, my rep.cap decreases to 194.  My question is, Why doesn't the engine normalize the rep cap again to 200 from the remaining posts? Now, my graph indicates simple 194 and not 200. Why is that?  Is it because - "Once we attain the rep. cap, no other ups count except the downs..?"  P.S: I think it's related to many questions like
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I was wondering this and is a bit difficult to test since they only update once a day it seems.  Do you actually lose the points that count toward the badge for specific tags?  For exmaple, if one were to have 100 upvotes in the c# tag but have a few downvotes, would that mean they didn't get the badge (until upvotes - downvotes in that tag hit 100?)
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I recently posted an answer that was a little controversial, I suppose.  While watching the page the answer was voted up and down a few times.  Is there a way to view the vote history?  Also, would there be any support for adding some sort of activity indicator?  My reasoning is this, you could potentially have a question or answer with "0 votes" that actually had numerous votes.  Visually seeing 0 votes indicates the question hasn't had any attention when exactly the opposite could be the case.  Thoughts?
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I just hovered over the Gold tag-badge on the badges page and this is what I saw*:     4 problems:   The tooltip says it needs 20 answers. The text says 200. The silver is incorrect too. Other tooltips appear correct in their numbers. Bronze badges have a single : all silver and gold badges ::... That's a bit odd. I'd suggest just one : Could we have some title-case for the badge type? What is "score"? Having  (oh the humanity!) it occurs to be that the language should probably be explicit and say it's talking about a vote score.   Taking the above into account, badge tooltips should read like:  Gold Badge: Earned at least 1000 net votes....   And this seems to be network-wide (which makes sense).  * Well that's almost what I saw. On my screen there was a mouse-cursor over the badge but KSnapshot is a massive racist** and won't let my cursor be seen by other users because it's white.  **Maybe it's just misunderstood.
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I know once you get a certain amount of reputation, you can see the total up and down votes for questions. Well, my proposal is to always be able to see this on your own questions and answers. You can see it by going to your user page anyway, so why not make it possible to do by simply clicking on the number of votes (like you can when you have the rep)?
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I want to see who has the highest score in a specific tag (for example c#) in my country. Is there any query or script for that? I've found , but it doesn't work. Can any one take a look at it and see what's its problem? I also have found  which does similar, however gets users which only have a tag badge.