One of my questions on stats.stackexchange had been closed. Two users have downvoted it and the score has been reduced by 4. I would like to see the rule. If it is there.
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Possible Duplicate:          I asked a question . I explained that I am able to do these functions individually but I am looking for a way to combine them. One person understood and tried to answer. The question have then being voted down, I lost 12 reputation points on it. The question was then closed. After which I lost an additional 2 points. I believe that my question was fair enough that it should not have lost any points.
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I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases.  Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then by descending time of posting. This means that if a person sits down and answers a question in a long, thorough way, going through every nook and cranny, once they post their answer, it will already be one of about seven different ones, some of which have already been upvoted. This wouldn't be a problem if those answers were as thorough as the one this guy's posting, but they usually aren't. Some of them are downright wrong, some aren't even answers to the question asked because their poster didn't bother to read the question all the way through.  This causes a problem I like to call Stack Overflow's Fastest Gun in the West Problem. I've come to a point where I'd rather just send a short, simple, correct explanation, than to go and do some proper research, write a whole blog post about it or even make sure the code I post even compiles, just so it will be noticed, as opposed to the incorrect ones.  I'm sure I'm not the only one doing this and that it despairs many people from even trying to answer questions.  I've long ago learned to try to always raise a problem with a solution in hand, rather than just say "This is a problem, handle it," so my question, after this long tirade, is:     How do you think this can be changed? What would you change in Stack Overflow to make this problem go away without hurting the site?   I promise to vote on answers I like, even if it takes you a long while to post them. :)
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With regards to  post about  and the part about retaining reputation earned from deleted posts that have a score of 3 or better and were visible on the site for 60 days, does this also apply to self-deleted posts and will it continue to do so? I culled a few of my own answers over the weekend that were less than stellar, and my reputation dropped 1.8k, but the rep is back today after the changes were announced. I thought it would be useful to clarify that this also applies to self-deleted stuff.
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I asked  on the website. It was closed as being off-topic. The off-topic message says If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit your question or leave a comment. all of which I had done approximately 2 hours before the question was closed.  So I would like to know how do I ask the users who cast the vote to close the question after I had commented about the validity of the question about where else should I comment in order to fulfill the criterion regarding commenting in order to explain the question?
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I just reviewed 20 items in the close vote queue and got the message     Thank you for reviewing 20 close votes today; come back in 15 hours to continue reviewing.   Normally this is 40 items but .  Can this restriction be removed for Stack Overflow or better the actual queue size be considered since the queue actually contains more items than being displayed?
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In , I see 117 score for my top voted question. But if you visit the question, you'll find that it has 118 score. The last vote I got on that question was at least a week ago, IIRC. Bug?
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I was reviewing First Posts just now, and I received the following message after my 20th vote:     Thank you for reviewing 20 First Posts today; come back in 8 hours to continue reviewing.   I see other users, with far lower reputation than me, .  Why is it I only have 20 votes?  I saw the  question, but the accepted answer there mentions flag weight, and I was under the impression that Flag Weight is gone (since it is no longer visibile on my profile).  What is the formula that determines the number of First Post votes a person can get per day?
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I have low rep on Physics &amp; Woodworking, but not so on Stack Overflow.  I just tried to ask &lt; 40 minute interval on those two and got hit with the :    I posted once on Woodworking, then ~5 minutes later tried to post on Physics, and was denied because of the 40 min rule. So apparently the system looks cross-network to assess this rule.  It seems the system is looking at my lowest cross-network rep when applying this rule rather than highest rep? What is the point of this very conservative approach? It would seem there is very little chance that a user with high rep on ANY site is likely to spam or abuse the lower-rep sites. And obviously this discourages participation across the network.  Furthermore, an improvement at least would be to warn the user ASAP so they aren't stuck with a nicely worded question in their browser window only which could be forgotten, lost, etc. As it is you only get the warning when you click [Post Your Question].
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I just ran into this while writing .  [I originally wrote:     you need a minimum of X reputation to comment on questions that are not your own, and on answers that are not to your own questions   But had to shorten it to:     you need a minimum of X reputation to comment]   First, it didn't tell me that I'd gone over the character limit for the title until after I had already tabbed out of the title field.  Second, it didn't tell me how much I'd gone over or anything. I had to copy-paste the text I'd written into my text editor in order to get some real-time feedback on the exact character count, to help figure out how to best shorten it.
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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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The simple equation that decides whether you get question banned or not is:  (total questions - negative score questions - closed questions)/total questions &gt;= 0.5   And closed questions probably includes deleted questions too. For example, a new user asks a question, and the question gets:   Downvoted, stays at negative score Deleted before 30 days from posting time Closed   The equation above would not work as:  (total questions - negative score questions - closed questions) &lt; 0.5   Which means question ban. But that is way too early to get banned. It seems that the user has to reach a certain number of questions or rep or time for the above equation to be implied towards the user. I have a small grip on the subject myself. So when does the question ban equation get applied?
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I am trying to test out my wrapper for the API by writing a little test to calculate the score of a user in a particular tag.  I can't seem to make my totals add up to the sites'.  This is most likely caused my a bug in my code, but to be sure I want to know exactly how the 'score' of a user is calculated.  Edit: I was hoping to get some hard and fast facts from one of the staff.  Do y'all know how you are calculating the score?  Is it just upvotes?  Does it count votes that were received before a answer was made wiki?
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Today I saw "", realized it was a duplicate and voted to close it.  I then saw in the comments that I had voted to close it four days ago!  How did that happen? There were no close votes listed at all, and I was permitted to vote to close it today!
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was recently closed (partly thanks to my own vote to close it.) While it was closed as being "off topic", I'm not sure that's actually the case. The poster asked about resources for understanding the facade and decorator patterns. While it's not a perfect fit for SO (e.g. there was no actual code) the reason I personally voted to close was my disdain for the complete lack of research effort made. (A simple Google search turns up a ton of resources.)  I know that downvoting is intended to mark questions that show little research effort (as pointed out in ) but should be a strong enough reason to close?  I find myself voting to close for this reason relatively frequently, so I suppose my two questions are:   Is this a legitimate reason to vote to close, or should I just be downvoting these questions? If it is a legitimate reason, can it be added to the list of reasons for closure? I don't think it fits comfortably in any of the current reasons.
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I discovered a new tab in my user profile.      Very useful. I have always wished such an overview so that it can help me to trackback my downvotes so that I can if necessary undo them.  But I was wondering, can moderators see them for each other user?
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Request I know that , but I would like it to be a standard feature on the user page. Rationale The candidate score is more to me than just, well, the candidate score. It represents how active and involved a user is. It represents how good a user one is. Would it be possible to show the candidate score as a metric on the user page? The element already exists, as it is shown for mod candidates, so could that same element be shown on one's user page? Like a comment reads, this could be a privilege to be earned with a decent amount of rep (since every k of rep is 1 point of the score, up to half of the total score, it would be a depressingly low score any way).
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It seems some people have a ton of questions on Stack Overflow, but relatively few answers, whereas some people have a ton of answers but relatively few questions; it seems like a smaller percentage of people fall in the "even" category.  I can't find a graph/grid of these ratios. Is this particular metric available somewhere?   I'm looking for a histogram of number of answers/number of questions.         |#     U|##     S|###     E|#####     R|#########     S|#############      |------------------             #A/#Q