I notice I got  for , the system tells me I get "+5" and "-2" on this question, but clearly this question has no upvotes or down votes. So why do I get "+3' reputations?  PS:Please don't up vote or down vote .
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On Stack Exchange, users may gain a certain level of reputation.  What does reputation do? How can a user gain or lose reputation?   See also   in the Help Center  - Maximum amount of votes a user can use in a day and reputation requirements to vote.  - How to get an exact overview of the actions that got you your reputation.  - A full list of all privileges granted at each reputation level on all sites.
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Let me say first that I am fairly new here (about 3 weeks) and absolutely love Stack Overflow. At first I let some of the negative attitudes get to me a little, left a few snarky comments, but that phase has passed. I see the tremendous value for this site in the long run and sincerely do want to help make it a better place.  I find myself going for  the downvote very frequently -- currently about 35% of my votes are downvotes. I even make an extra effort to upvote good content to offset this a bit, so the number should probably be more like 60%. I always try to leave constructive comments and try to help out the confused ones who are really trying.  I truly can't tell if it is just me, or if these folks deserve it. I don't know if you guys noticed, but there are a lot of really bad questions being posted, and a lot of people trying to pass off things like "use jQuery", "use Firebug", and "use Google" as good answers (and getting upvotes!). I even saw someone copy/paste my "What does Firebug say?" comment as an answer and get 3 votes within moments. Sometimes This answer is unclear or not useful just doesn't do it justice.  I feel like some of the people just drive me nuts, but then again I feel this way IRL :) Am I being too harsh, or is it really that bad on SO? Has there recently been a surge of new users, and the quality of content is degrading, or was it like this in the "good old days"? Have I perhaps misunderstood the expected behavior on Stack Overflow -- should I just ignore these crappy questions and answers rather than downvote them?
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I was just awarded +100 reputation on all of my Stack Exchange accounts.  What is this bonus for? It simply says "Association Bonus" on my reputation overview.  Also:   What privileges does the association bonus grant users? Can I lose the association bonus? Does it make my reputation 101 everywhere? Can I earn the association bonus on sites I haven't joined yet? Does it matter which site I earn the 200 reputation on? Will I get an association bonus every time my reputation on a site crosses 200 points? Does the association bonus allow me to answer protected questions? Does the association bonus count towards the reputation cap? Can I get the association bonus if I only have a profile on one site? What else is there to know about the association bonus?
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I've been wondering about this ever since I signed up on SO. With answers, it's easy to determine what to upvote. Is it helpful, is it informative, is it correct?  None of that really applies to a question though. So which criteria are we supposed to use for upvoting questions? (And for that matter, which purpose does it serve? Upvoted answers are listed first, so here the effect is obvious. What difference does it make whether a question gets upvoted?)
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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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Should some badges come with added reputation?  For example: Civic Duty gives you +100 reputation.  I'm not advocating reputation for every badge just a select few.
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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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With the new reputation system I get a lot of useless reputation up and down information in my history. This happens when a user upvote, unupvote and then upvote again in a small time window.  upvote/unupvote example:    accept/unaccept example:    This is very annoying and doesn't reflect anymore my common-sense-inspired reputation history.  Could something be done to fix this behavior?    For example show it only if the answer has been edited in between the upvote-unupvote?    Should it also be disabled for the first 5 minutes (like the edit notification)? (I don't know if this 5 minutes limbo is already in place or not)  Note: I believe that such users are in good faith and/or just newbies, but this seems to me like a highway for trolling:
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Suppose your answer has a score of 0, (1 upvote and 1 downvote). Your reputation gain from the upvote is +10, and the reputation loss from the downvote is -2. So the net reputation gain from your answer is +8.   If you delete your answer, you will lose those 8 reputation points, but if  you then undelete it, you won't get back those 2 points.  I think this is a bug.    I don't know if this behavior is same for questions.
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I recently posted an "answer" to a self-asked and answered question with basically no votes. I was hoping to ask the poster a specific question about his code, but a moderator deleted it basically saying that it wasn't an answer and I should follow the rules.   This happened to me twice now, except the first time I wasn't deleted, just down-voted into oblivion. How am I supposed to ask questions and participate to earn reputation if I don't have any reputation to ask questions/participate within the guidelines? I came very close to 50 reputation points and then people went through and voted down my discussions with the OP.  This is almost akin to the "you can't get a job without experience" conundrum, and I feel an easy solution would be to lower the amount of reputation points required to comment on posts. It's ridiculous that this community is so hostile to someone who is only trying to contribute instead of just taking without giving back.  EDIT: Thanks, to whomever went through and voted up enough things to get me to 50 reputation points!
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As a new user, I find it impossible to contribute to the community or to even begin contributing. I know why the reputation system is in place and I respect it, but at the same time it is too hard on new users.  It started with me wanting to upvote a question...     "Vote Up requires 15 reputation"   Just to appreciate a good question that helped me I need 15 rep? OK..., so I find out how I can get reputation points. More or less, I need to ask a question for +5 and add an answer for +10. I don't have any questions at the moment and I don't want to spam a random question, but I did happen to have a slightly different answer to the earlier question that I wanted to upvote. So I try to answer...     This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 reputation on this site.   Now... I know this doesn't apply to every question, but at the same time, this means I'm forced to answer yet another question, and I don't want to go around looking for random questions and spam irrelevant answers...  Now I'm stuck. So I try to talk to some other users in the chat rooms about how to go about getting reputation points and how they first started. I entered into a "casual chat room".     You must have 20 reputation on Meta Stack Overflow to talk here.   Yes... I can understand why this is enforced, because we don't want new users to spam chat rooms, but all I wanted to do was ask for help. So I can't even talk to anyone about my newbie problems. So okay, I'll just settle for upvoting comments in the question that helped me. I don't see an upvote hover-over button so I can't even do that.    So now I'm stuck at 1 reputation point, unable to cross that 15 rep barrier, and even after posting this question I'll only have 6 rep points and still unable to do anything, and I'll be forced to look for questions to answer. Yes, I should be contributing to the community, but I shouldn't need to begin answering or making questions to upvote questions and answers. This only spurs more spam/irrelevant answers if anything.   Very, very, very new-user unfriendly.
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I'm relatively new in StackOverflow, even though my account is 2 years old, I started actively contributing to site a few months ago.  I'm trying to do my best and while doing it, hoping to learn more than I currently know.  Today, for the first time, most of my answers were serially upvoted by someone/something I don't know.   And felt worried about it, I thought that this will negatively affect my account standing by creating an indication that I used a sockpuppet (I think that's what it's called)  Those reputation bonuses were reversed by the automatic mechanism a few moments ago, however, the upvotes and the "Serial upvoting reversed" event is still visible.   I'm acting incredibly picky while building my reputation anywhere just like any serious minded person would do. Now that "Serial upvoting reversed" message stands there, giving false signals to my profile visitors that I'm cheating rather than working my hands. This is a terrible feeling.  Even though I can't prove it, I never tried to gain reputation by chicanery.  What I would like to know is, if there's a serial upvote incident like that happening, how should we react to it?   Can we file an abuse report to somewhere?
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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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I just want to thumbs up a good answer, but I can't. I can't earn reputation because all conceivable simple questions have been asked and answered!  Is there a way to usefully earn reputation on a mature site for a non expert? Or am I forever to be locked out of giving thumbs up?
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Users below 15 reputation can't effectively vote. It says:     Votes cast by those with less than 15 reputation are recorded, but do not change the publicly displayed post score   Does it mean that they will take effect after I reach 15 reputation or because they were cast before, they're recorded but ignored?
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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 you delete a question with a positive score will you get reputation back? Basically what I'm asking is, suppose you have a question with a score of 22, and I delete the question. Would I lose reputation? If so, how long does it take  for it to re-calculate the reputation?