Do you lose privileges if you lose reputation (e.g. by spending it on bounties) and dip below what you had to reach to gain that privilege? Or, do you get to keep a privilege once it is earned no matter what?
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For example, if your reputation starts above 50 and then falls below 50, do you lose the ability to leave comments? Or, are privileges forever, once earned?
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Today I lost 25 reputation points and I'm just curious why? Apparently it was an upvoted and accepted answer and I thought that questions with answers can't be deleted easily. Talking about the general case, when a question gets removed by a Moderator, I'd think it'd be unfair to lose the points, because one still took the time to answer the question and probably invested a significant amount of work.   Unfortunately I don't have a link to the question. All I have is this:        but the "link" to the question is not clickable.  A syntax error question is a bad example for "probably invested a significant amount of work", I know, but again, I'm just curious what happened and want to know, why one does loose the reputation points ?
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In viewing the weekly list of rep change, I see  on top: razpeitia2 5 16  member for: 2 years, 7 months link #1 week rank +8529 change 727 total reputation 2,286 week reputation    How can someone with 727 total have 2286 for the week with no bounties?  Call me curious.  Is this a bug or something else here?
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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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I have 78 reputation and  is eligible for bounty 2 days ago. Yet I cannot offer a bounty on my question.    It appears that because I have an answer on my question, the system requires me to offer a minimum bounty of 100. But since my answer is already deleted, what can I do to offer a bounty on my question now?
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While users unlock all possible privileges at 20,000 reputation, their privileges are still "enhanced" as their reputation increases. For instance,   An  is granted per 1000 reputation. An  is granted per 2000 reputation.   Are there any other "enhanced" privileges out there that I am missing? It would be great if someone provided an exhaustive list of incremental privileges, as it's difficult to know for sure without sifting through the entire FAQ/privileges page.  At what point does a user gain 100% access to all possible privileges on the site (i.e. the maximum # of delete votes, flags, etc.)?
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Let's just assume that I've hit the rep cap and got the Mortarboard. None of mine have extra scores (i.e) from accepted answers, bounties, etc. All are up-voted posts. I've got some 300 points but the engine stops at 200. Now, we've to count the down-vote. I got down-votes up to some -6. Now, my rep.cap decreases to 194.  My question is, Why doesn't the engine normalize the rep cap again to 200 from the remaining posts? Now, my graph indicates simple 194 and not 200. Why is that?  Is it because - "Once we attain the rep. cap, no other ups count except the downs..?"  P.S: I think it's related to many questions like
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A user had put a bounty on . The bounty was later cleared by a moderator, who sent the user a private message citing the reason for revoking the bounty (supplied by the user in chat):     We have cancelled your bounty on [the question]. Now that the issue you were discussing in chat (presumably why you started this bounty) has been cleared up, we see no need to keep highlighting this question. The original question was resolved a year ago.   As far as I understand, bounties can be freely applied to any eligible question by anyone with the required rep for any reason, and there is no explicit policy basis that says that bounties can be revoked simply because the moderators feel that there is no need to "highlight" a given question. (If there is such a policy, it would mean that bounties intended to be awarded to rather old existing answers wouldn't be permitted, but I see those happening and they don't get cancelled.)  Was there some different reason why the bounty was cancelled? Did the fact that they selected the "draw attention" reason play a part in the bounty cancellation? Does the user have a history of abusing bounties that I'm not aware of (hence the mod message warning)? Or was it just a helpful move so that the user doesn't waste the rep?
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The  caused me to win , yey!  But wait.     [Mortarboard] Hit the daily reputation cap for the first time   Per-site metas don't have any reputation... I am confused :-)  I know why I got the badge. Should I have?  Let me rephrase. Is this behavior desirable?
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Is there any restriction to prevent multiple bounties ( not simultaneously) being awarded to different answers on the same question ?  i.e., on a question  -  I want to set multiple bounties since I've received 2 awesome answers. Can I set award a bounty on answer A first, and then set the bounty and award it to answer B ?
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Possible Duplicate:          There is a weird scenario I came across, I that know if you earn reputation and the user deletes the question the reputation remains.  However on 22nd of June, I answered a question and it was accepted. Today I found out that the question was deleted along with the user (couldn't find the user or any of his questions) and the reputation I earned is also gone.  I know this is not the expected behavior, but can I get the my reputation points back?
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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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Weird thing, I'm not sure if it's intentional design, so I'm asking here. On one site, yesterday I reached rep cap but then some votes were cancelled saying "User was removed". Now, the weird thing is that those votes still seem to count towards the cap, effectively “limiting” me to a lower cap:    Is that correct?
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This idea was inspired by . Quick summary of that post: OP placed a bounty, decreasing rep by 500. After that, new rep increases were not shown by the top bar achievements indicator icon (until the OP clicked on it to view the details, which reset the calculation).  Apparently, the indicator is currently set up to show the difference between your current rep and what your rep was at the last time you clicked the indicator to view the details, but only if that number is positive (personally, I think we should , but that's another story). So -500 rep from a bounty obscures all rep increases until 500 more rep is gained (or until the calculation is reset).  So my proposal is simply to adjust the calculation to ignore the effect of placing bounties. The rep change from placing bounties is really just an artifact of bookkeeping, and thus it doesn't make sense to even take into account for reporting positive rep changes in the achievements indicator.  Implementation of course depends on how the system is set up, but it seems like it would be a relatively straightforward task, however it works. There has to be something tracking the state of the indicator for each user. So when a user places a 500-point bounty, just adjust whatever is tracking their indicator state by the same amount. That way they'll continue to receive notifications about upvotes et al.  Don't deprive bounty-placers of the little dopamine rushes that seeing a green +X in the top bar provides. Hurrah for positive reinforcement.  As Richard Tingle points out in the comments, when the bounty is eventually awarded, that rep increase on the person who received it should definitely still be reported and included in the indicator calculation. It's just the loss of rep for placing a bounty that should not be included.
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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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I have some questions about a suspended user's earning and activity.   Can suspended users get reputation back after the suspension period? If a user is suspended for 7 days and he/she earns reputation during this period. Then will it be calculated after completing suspension period? If a suspended user has awarded a bounty to other user and the awarded bounty marked as illegal. Then will that bounty rolled back to their account?  Can suspended users get any alert from comments or chat room using @username method? Can suspended users post comments on his/her question/answer? If another user replies or ask a question on suspended user's post. Then, can a suspended user give response back?
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This was a question I originally intended to ask before .  According to , paying for a bounty will actually reduce your reputation cap. I searched more recent posts, but the majority of posts that deal with both reputation caps and bounty are about the reputation you earn from the bounty, not that lost from payment. Is this accurate to what actually occurs?  My main concerns draw from the following pool of questions.   Does paying a bounty actually reduce the reputation cap still? After paying a bounty, am I considered to "reach" the reputation cap after getting 200 reputation worth of upvotes, or getting a net daily gain of +200 reputation from upvotes? After paying a bounty, am I considered to "exceed" the reputation cap after getting over 200 reputation from non-bounty sources, or getting a net daily gain of over +200 reputation from non-bounty sources? Can tactical bounty assignment be used to aid in avoiding the criteria for certain cap-related badges?   There were a few other questions I figured, but they could all be derived from the answers to the above questions.