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Measurement of a user's contributions to the site, and the extent to which the community "trusts" that user with extra privileges.

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Does reviewing queues have any gains for me as a Stack Overflow user?

Having many golden badges doesn't grant you any privileges(*), but they have a similar secondary effect if you deal with others, like if you had a high reputation. …
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Is the process of accumulating reputation on this site exponential?

Thus, for example, on "12" you find the users with reputation between 4096 and 8191. … As the reputation in a previous time can't be estimated precisely on the SEDE, the reputation is only a rough estimate. …
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Does question's upvote need to have 10 points?

However, I think I can see a reason why they don't tune the reputation system continuously: having clear, simple, and forever unchanged rules works as a source of trust for us. …
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What is rep farming?

Rep farming means that you contribute many good posts to the community. And then, you see that glowing green rectangle, again and again. And you are happy on that.1 It is the greatest fun of the Stac …
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Significantly upvoted posts, not suspended user, yet having only 1 reputation

On these data, I think his reputation should be 1+5*5-2+4*10 = 66. Despite that, their reputation is only 1. … Their reputation change history seems to show the correct values, although their reputation graph shows a third value (rep 81, with a small decrease around early January to 79). Why is it so? …
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Why did my combined reputation suddenly spring from 24k to 27k? [duplicate]

My combined reputation (as shown on my combined flair) yesterday was yet 24k, now it is 27k. Well, today was a quite fruitful day for me, I've hit the repcap on the Unix SE! …
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Six simple tips to get Stack Overflow reputation fast

Weekend effect Most "hard" sites tend to have two large groups: The professionals of the site topics Enthusiasts If you belong to (2), it is much more hard for you to get reputation. …
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Why is there rep on Meta?

On the site metas, votes still exist, but they don't affect the reputation. Its obvious reason is that not your meta popularity matters, instead your contributions to the main site. …
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What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap?

I think preventing addiction is not the answer - the rules are determined by the company, and the company has no reason to prevent us from becoming addict. I think, “gaming the system” is not an ans …
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How do I get 50 reputation so I can comment on some of these posts? Also do badges count tow...

The length of your answer should be roughly 800 - 1000 bytes, here is the maximum of the "answer length / reputation got" ratio. … Writing questions for reputation is not effective. If nothing works, you can find very bad quality, but somehow not deleted posts, for example by this or this SEDE queries. …
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Area 51 allows you to see how much rep you have on a suspended site

Although your reputation on suspended sites are fixed to 1, it doesn't mean that your original reputation would be an undisclosed thing. … You can any time check your real (unsuspended) reputation on the http://anything.stackexchange.com/reputation link. …
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SEDE statistical model construction, how do I calculate the effect of the upvotes to the new...

I think we all know the endorphin produced by the Green Rectangle very well. Varying from our individual habit, mood, SE experience, and a lot others, I think we can agree it is a major force growing …
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How to retrieve exact reputation on "legendary day"?

But, most of the events affecting the reputation are available in the SEDE. … The second group, although it can affect reputation, but these are typically rare. Thus, a good estimation of the reputation in a given time is reachable. …
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Please charge rep for questions after threshold

In theory, the goal of the SE sites are not to give answers to the questions of the OP. The goal is to create the possible most useful Q/A catalog by volunteer cooperation. The difference is that mak …
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Would an increase in the positive motivation to take care of newbies be useful?

I am thinking of new badges, or maybe even reputation (for edit, answer or comment, so anything that takes care of a newbie). …
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