User  has plenty of badges on Stack Overflow (57 gold, 298 silver &amp; 650 bronze). He has 740 questions and 1.752 answers, some having lots of votes and reputation 1. I can see he has: 47 Offered bounties for 4,600 reputation. Can that be enough to get such low reputation?
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Will votes on my answers/questions cast while I'm suspended still increase my reputation after the suspension ends?
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It might be useful to encourage existing users of stackoverflow to cross pollinate other stack exchange sites.  While rep-sharing is not useful, as rep is meant to be a measure of expertise in one subject, badges may be one way to encourage participation across many sites.  This was triggered by seeing how few people actually had greater than 1k rep on all three main sites (SO, SF, SU) via Dennis Williamson's  app.  I had tried to do this by hand prior to the API under the assumption that many people would be answering questions on all three sites, but it turns out there are only 33 people, of all the users of stackoverflow, that have a 1k+ reputation on all three sites.  Over time it may be useful to provide badges that appear on all sites one is participating in that are awarded for extraordinary participation in the whole universe of Stack Exchange sites.  For instance, a silver badge might appear on all my profiles if I obtain 1k rep on 5 or more sites, and a gold badge if I have more than 3k rep on 5 or more sites.  I would hesitate extending this much past 5 sites as we don't want to encourage spamming questions and answers on sites where the user has little interest, but across the universe of stackapps I know I'm proficient or expert in at least 10 current sites, and while it's not a big nudge, the idea that I can get extra awards - especially ones that appear on all sites I'm in - would move me to participate a little more on sites that I am registered on, but don't visit regularly.    I expect, eventually as sites are launched, most users of any one site will have some interest or knowledge in at least 5 other sites.  This may provide the extra nudge some sites need to maintain an excellent rating in terms of usage.
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I noticed that  was active recently(I lost 4 reps on SO and gained 4 on MSO) so I just checked the profile for him/her/it. First of all, I just noticed that only  account was being listed under the . Then I further noticed that it was because our dear &quot;Community&quot; has earned 2 bronze badges on Area51(namely  and ). So, how can it be so that it can earn badges only at Area51 and not on SO/MSO or other sister sites for the same actions?  On Stack Overflow  On Meta Stack Overflow
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See this:        Jon Skeet got 1505 reputation gain, while the other user got only 1500. How come Jon is not first?
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In  question, the guy who started the bounty has only 36 reputation. It would mean that he had 86 prior to the bounty, which is below the limit for the action.  What am I missing?
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Currently, the first time a user on the Stack Exchange network reaches 200 reputation, they get an extra 100 rep on that account and all their  accounts. I believe this should be documented as a privilege at 200 rep (along with the lessening of adverts).
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I recently hit 200 rep on Stack Overflow and got a big 100 rep bonus. Most know this as the 'association bonus'.  If I offer a bounty of 50 points and thereby lessen my 'base' score, do I lose that association bonus?  What if I offer a 150 point bounty and then work my way back to 200?
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(Posted here as probably applies to all sites).  I was examining my reputation gain yesterday on Stack Overflow: 190. I believe I should have hit the 200 cap. Mainly due to         Respectively, I had 10, 7, 3, and 2 upvotes on those questions alone. There are a couple of other minnows in the list but the above alone should enable me to hit the cap.  There was a user removed sometime yesterday which knocked off 10 points (and possibly accounts for the disparity) but I think (1) the cap should have been recalibrated and (2) I answered (3) after this event before turning in for the night.  I checked all the usual suspects: the reputation graph on your profile and  the achievements tab, but they are all showing 190.
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Overall reputation scores are headed nowhere but up.  Pretty soon there will be thousands of mods.  What to do?  Thoughts on possibilities:   Thousands of mods is fine.  Carry on. Adjust the threshold values for high-level SO privileges. Do a straight-up inflation adjustment.  You had x rep, then at the turn of the year we applied the Consumer Rep Index to all scores, now you have (x / inflation) rep. Implement a rep decay mechanism, so that inactivity sheds some of the overall rep that's built up.
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So, let's take Skeptics.SE for an example. You can become a trusted user when you acquire 4000 rep., not 20000  I was like, wow, so is it like this because of the lack of users on Skeptics.Se, as in, not so much as Stack Overflow or something?  Why do some sites need less reputation to be a trusted user?
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I was watching the top users and saw the honourable  with his 136k+ 558k+ 1M reputation. This man has a lot of quality posts and I respect him a lot. He deserves the reputation he has, like a lot of other people here.  How do you get over 200 reputation points/day, though? Taking a sample of Jon Skeet's profile, we can read that over a course of 54 days he managed to gain 13,076 reputation points.   Now, if we do the maths on that:   13076 ÷ 54 = 242 reputation points/day.  How can someone have 242 reps/day when the limit is 200?   (This question was originally floated by )  This question has led to a humorous .
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From       Running Ragged      earn 150 reputation points on three different sites (not including   Stack Overflow) within 15 days.   So my query is: association bonus going to be counted for it?
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I will reach a score of 3000 in coming days in stackoverflow. In privileges section, for 3000, I have seen;     Note that once you gain the reputation to vote to close, you should no longer flag for moderator attention to have questions closed or migrated. It is your responsibility to vote now.   In badges info, it is noted that the requirement of Deputy silver badge is raising 80 helpful flags. How can I track (or how to achieve) this badge after reaching a reputation level of 3000?
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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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From "6 Simple Tips to Get Stackoverflow Reputation Fast" at codexon.com:   Be the First to Answer. Even at the cost of quality. Use Downvotes and Comments Strategically Use obnoxious in-your-face formatting and lists. Be Aware of the 200 rep/day Limit Edit, But Don’t Edit Too Much Associate your other accounts   Courtesy of . Agree? Disagree? Walnuts? Cantaloupe?
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Just curious how this works:  My Stack Overflow reputation on my Stack Overflow CV shows an amount X, which is less than my actual Stack Overflow reputation Y. It's been this way for a few days. In addition, some of my 'favorite answers' on my CV have a lower # of votes than they do in reality.  How long does it take for this (I assume cached) value to be updated?
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I like the community and appreciate the great service it's been to me over the past few months.  Sometimes I want to show my support for a great answer or comment, but I can't because I'm a new user and have only 1 reputation. It seems like the only way to gain the requisite 15 reputation (for voting) is to ask questions?  Until now I didn't have any questions that weren't already answered by the community. Is this the only way? Won't this one day lead to no new users not being able to participate?