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Congratulations, Did hits the 100K!!

"Did" is now one of the top 5 users of Math.SE He hit the reputation score of 100K today!! Congratulations to him from the community!
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520 views

Congratulations once again, André!!!

From today André Nicolas is the top MSE user. Congratulations André!
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95 views

Losing reputation because of something deleted [duplicate]

I recently noticed that I've lost a small amount of reputation, with the reasoning listed as "user deleted". A few simple questions about this: Can I get some elaboration on what this means, if ...
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Reputation points frozen? [duplicate]

My reputation points don't seem to be moving up or down. Have my points been frozen for a reason, or is it a bug? Is anyone else experiencing this? Edit: Is there perhaps a cap on the amount that can ...
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Why Meta Reputation?

The meta reputation is kind of strange. If you don't keep track of it you don't know where it comes from, if you recognized it all since it's not tracked like on the main site, where the $\nabla$ pop ...
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Can someone explain the “economics” of StackExchange points?

To date, I had not been bothering to formally accepting my best answer, and had a 0% acceptance rate. On a recent question I posed, I was informed that no one will answer questions with 0%. So, I ...
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Reputation points for less elementary questions and answers are low

I've read yesterday in the meta section (by I don't remember exactly where) few comments about some recommendations to encourage less elementary questions and proofs by upvoting them. I have to ...
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556 views

Is it possible to donate reputation points?

I wonder if it is possible to donate reputation points.
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1k views

“user was removed” again [closed]

This time (seven hours ago, apparently), my "reputation" went down by 208 points, so it must have been someone who's done a lot of posting here. It's hard not to suspect that users who've been around ...
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How long is the time of the transfer of the reputation value from the main to the meta site?

It seems to be more than half an hour? Does it vary?
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Reputation for attribution in answer?

Several times, I have attributed other users in answers that have received upvotes. This generally occurs in two ways: I am expanding on another user's hint, or the user has made a suggestion in a ...
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1answer
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Concerning change in reputation score

What kind of change in reputation score does happen when I accept an answer , given by me to a question by myself ?
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1k views

Congratulations, André!

Since yesterday, the number of 100k+ users on MSE has doubled, courtesy of André Nicolas. I think congratulations are in order!
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91 views

Why is there a difference between month reputation and total reputation if I'm new here?

Well the title is quite clear. Why is there a difference between month reputation and total reputation if I'm new here ? Mathematically that makes no sense : previous reputation $= 0$ thus $0 + x = x$ ...
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Sticky question : I sometimes want to ask questions that I know will not be popular yet I think are good.

I sometimes want to ask questions that I know will not be popular, yet I think are good. It's a weird feeling. And its double. Some questions are nontrivial, hard to state clearly, or simply ...
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1answer
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0 questions and 0 answers on profile?

I sometimes look at profiles , but occasionally i see something remarkable. Example : 0 questions 0 answers 0 votes 0 views 0 badges reputation 395. Where did that 395 come from then ? Are the ...
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114 views

What are the negative numbers to my tags?

What are the negative numbers to my tags? They don't correspond to my reputation or votes? Sorry if its somewhere explained already.
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When do I have enough reputation?

When do I have enough reputation? I mean isn't there a number after which you are a permanent member that can almost not be removed? Is it the thrusted badge perhaps that you need? Did I overread ...
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1answer
550 views

What's the daily reputation record?

My understanding is the most reputation one can gain in one day from votes is 200. But, through accepted answers, they can get another 15 per accepted answer. So, technically, there is no limit. Is ...
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1answer
93 views

Question about post that was closed and deleted.

Sorry I can't link to the question. I knew going in that I would get a few down-votes because the question was a little abstruse. I was willing to take my lumps. However, when the thread was ...
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A bad day at mathexchange …

OK, first I must apologize if this title or this meta place is inappropriate, but I'm unaware of a better place to post this. Today I had an unpleasant day at math.stackexchange. For starters, I got ...
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reputation points

This question has almost certainly been asked. Since I couldn't find it, I'll ask it and maybe be rewarded with a link to a prior question. Would it be possible and/or desirable to lessen ...
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1answer
233 views

How do I know «why» I gained or lost so many points in recalc?

I triggered rep recalc today and promptly lost around 40 points. I am not too concerned about these points, but I am still curious why I lost them. What I am interested in is a summary of the events ...
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Why should the user profile only show “positive reputation changes”?

In the new user profile page if one enters a user page of someone that only received downvotes in the past few days, instead of that you see a note: This user has no recent positive reputation ...
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505 views

Did you recently lose a large or unusual number of reputation points?

This is more of a general announcement, I guess, but today I happened to run a reputation recalc on my account (which one can do by going here), and I noticed that I lost 104 points. This is an ...
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3answers
387 views

How can I see who voted down 20-25 questions of mine yesterday?

How can I see who voted down for me? Someone just voted down 20-25 questions that I have asked and made me -250 to the amount of points (So it might be more than 20...) and even though I don't mind ...
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3answers
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What is the proper way to acknowledge an answer posted on another forum / site?

Hi Math-SE is (obviously) not the only math-discussion forum out there. A poster that wishes to maximize the speed at which his question is answered may well choose to post the same question on more ...
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122 views

Privilege Access Levels

I noticed that recently there was an update in the privilege accessibility. I was wondering what is the point of putting a relatively usable privilege so far high, that at the current time of writing ...
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154 views

No increase in Reputation points

For the past two days, there seems to be some problem with my reputation. For instance, I received 7 up-votes for this question. However, there has been no change in my reputation. I noticed a similar ...
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1answer
157 views

Does one also get reputation for editing questions?

I recently added a link to the question posted on the De Bruijn-Erdos theorem. For some reason I received two reputation, but this doesn't seem to be one of the cases listed in the FAQ reputation ...
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How to post answer without gaining “reputation” points and without CW?

Is there a way to post answers without gaining reputation points but retaining the higher editing barrier (or "authorship" if that concept applies here) of an ordinary, non-community-wiki posting? I ...
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Promotion implies higher rep needed for privileges, and nobody has such

One of the consequences of being promoted out of beta is that much higher rep is now needed for all privileges - so high that very few users have such rep. Currently we have no 10K users and hence ...