Yesterday I wanted to comment on a question on Stack&nbsp;Overflow, but I don't have 50 reputation points. The question is that I referred in my answer to another Stack&nbsp;Overflow question, and my response had showed as a comment.  It is correct?? I don't know if this is a bug.  This is the question:   And now my rep is 47.
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I posted an answer (pointing to another question already asked) but when I hit submit, I saw my answer appear as a comment to the question instead.   I tried it a couple of times and still the same result. The answer gets eaten up and is transformed into a comment.   Is this a bug?
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I joined a new community and asked a question ()  People are commenting &amp; asking questions, but I cannot answer them back. Even "Comment Everywhere" privilege requires 50 reputations and I have 101 reputations.  Am I missing something?
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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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I had contributed to a topic and my reputation under Meta shows as:     Reputation (1)   but there is no record of what I contributed. Clicked on everything possible, but I cannot find it.  Is this a bug?  It gets weirder... Apparently I have a login for Stack Overflow (reputation 149) and for Meta Stack Exchange (reputation 19... now), but not for Stack Exchange and not for Meta Stack Overflow if there is such a thing.  How did this happen?  One clue might be that I had different email addresses in the two accounts - I have since changed the MSE email address to match SO, but I think (could be wrong) that this is irrelevant.  When the two services split, I must have lost MSO and SE... Somehow..
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Not sure if it is a bug or not, but it feels like a bug to me. When I got to 200 rep on SO the other day I got +100 rep to all my accounts including SO. So my rep jumped up to 300 on SO.  Considering there are others on SO with rep between 200 and 300 I think it is possible that the +100 was supposed to apply only to the linked accounts, not to the account with 200+.
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It appears that the error notifications about comments in Mobile Stack Exchange do not work (in-browser mobile site), on many stacks. Something should be done, do we report bugs here?  My original problem was that I've tried to post comments on answers for various boards, and the button wouldn't do anything, no error message or anything. I recently found out that it's because I don't have enough reputation points, but there was no note explaining the rule like in the desktop version. A couple boards I tried it on are the User Experience one and StackOverflow.  Also, user Mooseman is eating pizza claims the same about "your message is not long enough" error.
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I have been reading Stack Exchange for years - mostly not logged in, and have never posted (this is my first). I'm simply not very talkative, and very good at googling.  Recently a few occasions have come up when I've wanted to comment on a question.  I wanted either to ask for, or provide, clarification which did not warrant a new answer.  How do I gain enough reputation to comment without:   asking questions which have already been answered or that I can figure out on my own, or posting my comment like as an answer (i.e. being  rude)?
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I have created my StackOverflow Careers panel, and when I click 'add a stack overflow account with over 200 reputation' the site decides that I have no StackOverflow account at all, although my current one has over 300. I log in to both with the same StackExchange Account with the same email etc so I'm curious as to why this is happening.
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NB: I'm not sure if this is actually a bug, or if I just don't know enough about what constitutes a new user. It just seems off to me.  The first post in question:   :   In the context of reviews, is a new user just someone who has never posted an answer no matter their age or rep?  Also: How is it possible for a user to have -1 other answers? Could this be related?
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Twice today I noticed that my reputation increases with 15 on Stack Overflow, but when I click to see my account, the change is being reverted and none of my recent answers are marked as accepted. Then why does the reputation on the top of the page change ?
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On Stack Overflow, I have 428  questions answered with a total score of 775 as of the writing of this post.     It seems that this is happening to a lot more people than just me.       (Only possibly related)?
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I get the point of having a minimum reputation to use the new chat feature. However, I was hoping my 2K reputation from Stack Overflow would be enough - but it looks like I need to acquire 20 rep here on Meta Stack Exchange.  So my question is - should this restriction be moved?
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Sometimes a comment can add great value to an answer once its content has been incorporated into the answer. Perhaps correcting an error to an otherwise good answer, plugging a logic hole, rendering a more elegant solution, making an important clarification to explanations, etc.  Once the answer has incorporated the comment/suggestion, it would be nice to credit the commenter with a "slice of the pie" - ie share reputation gains between the answerer and the commenter, as recognition of their contribution as "co author" to the final answer.  The simplest way would be to make upvotes on comments yield reputation, but that barrow has been pushed before.  A few possibilities I could think of for sharing rep are:   The commenter can be added to the answer as a "reputation sharer" - reputation gains from the answer are split 50/50 from then on The answerer can make a "donation" of reputation from the answer to the commenter - eg if the answer has 4 votes, they can donate up to 40 reputation (there may have to be a requirement that this donation comes off the rep cap, so answerers don't distribute their excess rep when exceeding their rep cap) Upvotes made by the answerer to comments on the answer do get reputation (maybe 5 - transferred as per previous point)     Why bounty doesn't quite fit:  The bounty process is just too long winded and doesn't have an on-going effect if the answer turns out to be a really good one. The bounty is too delayed. They didn't answer, they just added value - I just want to give the comenter a pat on the back right there and then, and I don't mind giving up some erep to do it.
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I wonder how it is possible that Stack Overflow is still asking me to solve an unreadable  before I can post a question when I have more than five accounts on Stack Exchange, and I have more than 500 reputation on Stack Overflow.
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I'm looking around for answers to my questions on several Stack Exchange sites and the good boy that I am I don't want to ask duplicate questions.  Often I find that there are other people who asked the same questions, sometimes years earlier, but still don't have an answer. I'd figure I could bump these back to top, but if I don't have enough rep for a edit (or comment), how would I do that?  Or, in that case, I should just post a 'newer' version of the same question?
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Is it just for me, or has the privilege to review new posts and late answers changed for everyone?  I recently started being more active in reviewing, but the rep requirement just shot up and I can not review anymore? The rep requirement has shot up to 500. Is this just for me, as a 'process", or has it been changed site wide?
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While I was perusing  today, I noticed that it stated my all-time rep was 412 when it actually is 453 (as of now). Does this reputation take time to update itself? (I had gotten a few upvotes just before I checked). I'm just curious.