Occassionally, my posts get down-voted. However, most of the time they are up-voted.   When I get a positive reputation change, you get a notification at the top of the site that says +whatever reputation for things like up-votes, accepts and edits. However, when you lose reputation, you have to notice your reputation go down strangely and then actively look in your reputation history to see where the down-vote came from.   So my question is, bearing in mind that there are notifications for positive changes in green; surely it would be logical to notify negative reputation changes in red for example?
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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 lose more than you got since the last time you checked, you see it red with a little -X.  For example, let's say you've just looked at the reputation bar so any old rep notification is gone and you ask a new question. 3 users downvote your question and 1 upvotes it. You will see it green because you gained 5 rep but you should see it red because you are at -1 rep.   This would help people improve their questions / answer by seeing, as soon as they get on the site, that they got negative feedback and that something needs to be checked / changed.    It shows here so it could very well be applied to the notification count:
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So just a little while ago i was flipping out because i was 2 rep away from my 10k rep goal    but then all of a sudden it was then 10,008 rep because someone upvoted me. however i didn't get any notification about this +10  [    now as you can see in the screenshots above, over the past 2 days i got 2 upvotes to a question i posted, however the notifications only shows 1 +10 notification. and they system knows i got the upvote because i knew that i now have access to mod tools.  I am on a Windows 10 Laptop using Chrome 78.0.3904.97 (Official Build) (64-bit)
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Multiple times today, when I have clicked open a link to one of the sites in the network, I have seen a green highlight with something like "+49" as if I had recently earned an additional 49 reputation points since I last reviewed my reputation.  But these reports are for reputation which was already reported as new before, which I have reviewed already.  I don't have precise details, but something like this:   Answered a question on .  Earned +30 rep which was reported with a green badge. I clicked it open and found out that this was the case. Time passed. Opened pages on multiple sites, including but not limited to , Stack Overflow, and other sites. Opened a page on  and saw the same reputation reported as new again. Clicking it open revealed that this was the same report I had already seen on Stack Overflow.  Shrug. Somebody upvoted an old answer of mine. I saw +10 and clicked it to see what I had earned the reputation points from. This marks the reputation as already seen, and I should not be notified about it again. Time passed.  Opened pages on multiple sites, including but not limited to Graphic Design, Drupal, Stack Overflow, and others. Opened a page on Graphic Design just now and again saw a +40 badge notification for the same reputation earnings again.   As an active volunteer in  I click on posts as they are reported there, so I have probably visited dozens of sites in the network dozens of times during the last few hours. (The  shows a transcript of recent spam reports at any given time. I have probably not visited all of the posts you see if you click it open right now, but a good part of the ones reported in the last 4-5 hours.)  I also routinely downvote spam posts, so my rep has changed multiple times (the -1 is regained when a spam post is deleted, so the net is something like +49 since I opened my computer this morning, as of right now.)
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Yesterday my answer was accepted, but I got no notification in top bar, moreover, top bar still shows that I earned 45 reps  while reputation tab shows right 60 rep.  Update: July, 11 Again having this problem: In the dropdown:  In the rep tab:  You see, first down votes in the drop down are missing.
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I don't like such kind of questions on Meta, so I will try to make it a good question and describe all with a details.  Today I down-voted  added a comment with explanations why I down-voted it, and flag it as non constructive (my flag was marked as helpful). An hour later  was downvoted, without any comment left about the reason. Yes, that wasn't my best answer, but in my opinion it answers the question. Well, even if somebody considered my answer incorrect he could add the correct answer, or up-vote the competitive ones. I checked the  who made competitve answer, and he didn't get any rep today for that answer.   It was my second down-vote on Stack Overflow, so I was a little bit down, after that. I think who could considered my answer so completely wrong, and that I thought that maybe it was revenge down-vote. So I checked  of the user I down-voted today, and it was clear that he down-voted some answers today. After I checked that that user cast only 19 downvotes in 8 months, so chances were very big that this was revenge down-voting.  I came to this meta, and searched what I should do in this case. I found that most questions about down-votes, were closed as duplicates. After I found , and found that a team member of Stack Exchange suggested to cast a flag for moderator attention, and explain the situation there.  I did that, and create next flag:     I think after I down-voted this question (and a comment about this), the OP down-voted me in revenge; it's clear from his today's reputation and from timing of my down-vote of his question, and time when one of my answers was downvoted. I cannot be 100% sure about that, but if somebody can check this, and point him that it's not the good way to do.   As you can see, I didn't ask for returning any reputation, or banning that user, I just wanted, somebody to point him, that he did wrong. And after I get this respons on my flag: "declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention." So in the end I also lost 10 points of the flag weight.  After describing all situation in details, I want to know were exactly I was wrong here. And what should I do next time something like this happens?
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Is it possible to view a graph showing a post's up and down votes over time?   Not who voted for it, just "vote received at [timestamp]". I know if a user has enough rep they can see the total up and down votes their post has received so far, but I'm not aware of being able to see the history of votes on a post.
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Is a notification sent to someone who downvoted a question when that question has been updated?  Initially, my question got a downvote because it was lacking sufficient information/code/explanation/etc..  Now, I have updated my question &amp; it looks good. Will a notification be sent to the downvoter that this question has been updated, so that the downvoter can review the question again &amp; if it looks good to him/her they can remove the downvote?
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I'm new to Stack&nbsp;Overflow and just received new privileges this morning.  Now I received three new notifications about additional privileges that I received, even though I don't think I've reached the reputation points level for them. At the moment I have 13 reputation points, and I recieved notifications for the following privileges:   Vote up Flag Posts Talk in chat   I tried voting up and it doesn't work (since I don't have the reputation points for it). What's going on?
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A per the Community Wiki ,      The original author keeps the reputation gained (or lost) before their   post entered community mode.      The original author can flag the post to moderator attention for   re-convert the C.W to normal post, the moderators will take action on   that.   If the Community Wiki status of a post is reversed, what will happen to the reputation of votes (Up/down) gained by the post at during its time as a Community Wiki?
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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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I have found that if I upvote an answer, it gets upvoted, but if I downvote I receive a message that the vote is hidden until I have sufficient reputation points.  Here's an example from an answer on  - on which I have .  If I upvote:    It simply gets upvoted - isn't that nice!  The trouble is if I downvote an answer, I get a message saying my vote is hidden until I have 125 reputation points:    And here is an example of a question on , on which I have :      So either this is a straightforward network-wide bug, or this is a Stack Exchange policy to hide downvotes from users with less than 125 reputation points - in which case perhaps the wording of the message is ambiguous?
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You earned -30 reputation today on ...   The above doesn't sound right to me. It appears as the tooltip in the "recent achievements" dialog:        Can this please be changed to something like:     You lost 30 reputation today on ...
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I  and while on other sites I did not get a 'Reputation Notification' to explain that I was given 2 upvotes for my answer - yet if I manually check my Profile here at meta.SE my total Reputation is in agreement with the amount there.  I'm not knowledgeable about the intercommunication between the servers and sites but I would explain it this way: Super User either failed to send or other sites failed to receive the message the I had a reputation update on Super User.  I should have received either two green star trophies (🏆) of 10 reputation each or one of 20; depending on when I returned to one of the Stack Exchange / Stack Overflow / Super User / etc. sites.  Here's a screenshot showing no reputation change notification for Super User:    Here's a screenshot of my Profile over at Super User showing that I was silently credited:    I'm bringing this up on Meta.SE in case the communication is broken between more sites than just Super User and everywhere else.
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Possible Duplicate:          Is down-voting on SO supposed to be anonymous? I ask because it does not seem to me to be.  Example:   I asked a question today. I got 3 good and 1 mediocre responses. I voted up the two that helped me and accepted the one that worked best. A while later, several new comments from one person appeared, to which I responded (since they were questions for me), and then that same person posted a new answer. This answer was crap. The person missed the whole point of the question and gave vague "pseudo-code" (and calling it that is generous) that basically restated my question.   Though I try to use down votes sparingly, especially when someone takes the time to answer a question I asked, I really want to down vote his answer. However, if I do, then my "reputation" will report "-1 downvoted" today. Since we've been going back and forth in the comments (in my failed attempt to explain the question to him), it's fairly likely that he'll peg me for the down vote.   In rumaging through the his reputation, I noticed that he gets down voted a lot. Moreover, he often votes down things on the same day as he gets down voted. Looking at a few recent questions where he posted an answer that was down voted, it's pretty clear that he (often successfully) down votes questions or competing answers when he is down voted, perhaps based on comments or, as is easier, based on profiles where down votes are recorded.  In this particular case, it's worth it for me to down vote him because (1) it's a stupid answer, (2) I don't live and die by my SO reputation, and (3) it really wasn't a great question that I asked. However, this does bring up the larger point that perhaps a date should not be associated with a down vote.
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I downvoted at the cost of 1 reputation, but it shows in the achievement bubble as +-1, and it's green instead of red.    As people have noticed, positive net rep gains also contain the hyphen. The displayed number is the sum of positive and negative, but the +- is always there, though possibly only if there was at least one negative value?
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I poured my heart out to write a great answer to a question, and I earned a gold badge for it. I'm so proud of the answer that I've even linked to it on the web in several places.  To my surprise, I discovered that the question had been closed without notifying me, and that it had been deleted without notifying me.  Since there already is , this question is specifically about deletions.  Please could I be notified whenever a question that I posted an answer to is deleted? Especially if my answer is long, or earned lots of upvotes. I want to at least be able to fix any links to that question, and maybe convert that answer into a blog post or something, because I really do think it is making the Internet a better place.  Some high-rep users have already found the deleted question that caused me to discover this issue. But I want to be clear that I'm not trying to generate a discussion about whether the deletion was justified or not, I'm pointing out that I was never notified of the deletion, and I think I should have been.  My question is slightly different from , as I want to be notified when a question of my answer is deleted, not necessarily when my question has been deleted.
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Possible Duplicate:          If a user with reputation 1 gets a down vote, his reputation is not lowered. Are the down-votes considered, when the same user gets some up-votes?  Supposing that a user gets 3 down-votes and 3 up-votes for a question he made, will his reputation be 15 or 9?