At Stack Exchange, one's reputation can never decrease below 1. Is negative reputation that is not counted in case of insufficient reputation deducted later on, i.e. when reputation is earned?  EDIT: SOLVED. The point of my question was that it is ambiguous from /other Q&amp;A whether, in the case of insufficient reputation mentioned above, the reputation is not decreased to below 1 just for the time being or the negative reputation is permanently ignored. The doubt was considering the fact that every user's reputation change is recorded, and there are reversions in reputation change in case of deletion of posts.
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If a user is the type of person to consecutively get downvoted to potential negative reputation, so be it. What's the reasoning to maintain a minimum of one?  One reason that may justify this is of trying to not deter new users from the site who haven't read the FAQ and unknowingly and wrongly ask or answer a question. But most of us acknowledge this and not downvote in such a scenario.  So what's the reasoning behind this lower bound of 1?
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My question was downvoted but, it still listed the question at 0. I lost rep and am just curious if this was a bug.  Question:   Question List:
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Yesterday I had 3,606 reputation but today I have 3,592.  My profile shows that I lost 6 reputation when a user was removed, but that would put me on 3,600 - 8 reputation has magically disappeared.  Adding up all of my reputation does work out at 3,591 (I'm assuming by default new users have 1 rep, so that would make sense).  Somewhere a reputation change since yesterday isn't being displayed. I don't know what this would be for, but -8 would lead me to believe that someone removed their up-vote on an answer I'd posted which already had a down-vote (could it be from that deleted user?).  I don't know if this is a bug or if there is simply a delay between reputation updating, but I figured it was worth reporting.    Sadly I cannot prove that I had 3,606 reputation yesterday.
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I logged in today and saw that 15 of my reputation points had vanished. When I opened the reputation tab, I noticed that even though at the top it showed -15, it didn't list exactly where or how my reputation went. Even the reputation counts for today and yesterday show nothing. Is this a bug of some sort?
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On many stackexchange sites I haven't enough reputation to cast an up-vote. Always I get the message "Thanks for the feedback! Votes cast by those with less than 15 reputation are recorded, but do not change the publicly displayed post score".  What does recorded mean exactly?    Can the owner of the up-voted question/answer see in any kind, that he/she got my up-vote? Does he/she get rep for this? What happens with these votes, if I reach the 15 rep? Will they take effect subsequently? Or are they just recorded for my "vote-history"?
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When reviewing an answer in the low quality queue the question doesn't believe that I have enough reputation to comment.        I can't remember if commenting on the post not actually being reviewed was ever allowed?
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Every so often I appear to have a random reputation gain of 1. It just happened on math.stackexchange and I know that I didn't get downvoted by anyone in between. Any ideas of how that happens?
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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?
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While browsing Stack Overflow, I noticed that I lost a lot of reputation:        Is this serial downvoting? Will it be corrected by a rep-recalculation? How often are those done?    Here's a second instance:
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If votes were cast on a post while it was community wiki, and a moderator removes wiki from that post, the votes should count towards reputation again. However, while this is visible in a reputation audit, , and the reputation score needs to be recalculated to reflect the change.  Can someone fix this?
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I have some questions regarding suspended users:   Why do suspended users have a reputation of one? According to the default reputation of a new user, he/she will have reputation of one and he/she has the privilege of posting questions. When comparing this, this is getting violated when compared to suspended users' reputation. Even though they have one reputation point, they cannot post questions. As suspended users do not have privilege of posting questions, there is no use of making "Ask Question" visible. This is an unnecessary server hit. Am I right? As suspended users do not have the privilege of answering questions, there is no use of making "Answer Question" visible.
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I just experienced a minor visual bug.  I had an answer that earned 2 down votes and 22+ upvotes, earning me the daily maximum of +200. Upon making some edits to the answer at the behest of the comments, one of the users who down voted changed their vote. Now my reputation meter shows that I gained +202 for the day.    This correctly did NOT affect my reputation, as I still only gained 200, so it is merely a minor display bug.  This appears in the achievements drop down and my reputation tab on my profile.
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The topbar only tells us about reputation gains (see ).  But sometimes it only half-tells us:    The explanation of that +1 is nowhere to be found here.  An answer that I downvoted was deleted (hence the return of my 1 rep), but I'm active on several sites and sometimes it takes days (or weeks or months) for such posts to be deleted, so asking myself "what have I downvoted recently?" doesn't necessarily help.  If we're going to show the notification, shouldn't we also show the explanation?
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seems to be the opposite of . Back then,  included a nice analysis of what the effect would be when this change occurs.  I think it would be nice to have an impact analysis (something more substantial than the askers will gain more reputation which is quite obvious).  A particular point of this analysis would be the following case (questions):   score &lt; 0 current reputation gained by user from the question &lt; 0 new reputation gained by user from the question > 0   If there are many such cases, it would significantly encourage asking bad questions.  Question: Is there any impact analysis being done for the question reputation change similar to the one done in the past?
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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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If I'm below 15 reputation, I can't alter the public score of an answer/question.  Suppose I gain the privilege by getting the required rep and vote some posts up. Then, for any reason, I fall below 15 and lose the ability to vote. What about the votes I already did cast?  Do post scores get altered by ignoring my vote, or will they stay the same? In other words, is losing a privilege retroactive?  If yes, what about when I gain my privilege back? Are my votes automatically restored, or do I have to cast them again from scratch?  I made the easiest example, but this applies to any higher privilege
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I just bought "Reputation to the max". I bought this first, because I really want to help the cleanup of the vote-to-close queue, which, despite the efforts I've been hearing about, is still quite large. According to SO, my reputation is now 15,750, but that queue still says I need at least 3k rep to review! That is clearly a bug!