Unanswered Questions
264 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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On downvotes, or more precisely, why people downvote things
After seeing the downvotes survey and, honestly, being very surprised that downvotes are targeted again, I took the initiative to sign up as a completely new user on SO, to understand, in my own way, ...
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Let's prevent association bonus abuse
The association bonus grants otherwise no-rep users a lot of privileges. That's good if we trust them (great even, since it allows us to flag spam across the network), but could be terrible if we don'...
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Trying to hide spam/offensive deletions on user profiles announces them
If a post is deleted as spam or offensive, the user incurs a 100-rep penalty. But SE made the conscious decision to not call that out on the reputation tab; if you go to the page of a user who's hit ...
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Screen reader users cannot discover badges and reputation
There's an accessibility issue with one of Stack Exchange's core features: users who are reliant on a screen reader have no real capacity to learn about and understand badges and reputation, including ...
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Delay answer downvote rep loss to voter to help hide voter's identity
A while back, I posted an answer to SO, which was downvoted. I wasn't sure who did it, but had a suspicion because I thought I had seen a particular user lose a reputation point.
When I deleted the ...
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Show suspended users with their normal reputation in the Data Explorer
I was playing with the Data Explorer... And I was trying to write a query to show users who got the most % of their reputation from accepts.
So for each user: [% from Accepts] = [Rep from Accepts] / [...
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Allow moderators to define reputation-limiting relationships between users who consistently display targeted voting
On Ask Ubuntu we've got a bunch of users who we believe to be friends at school together.
They ask questions for each other to answer
They vote for each other (and recently also against each other)
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I can see my reputation "increasing" even though I am suspended
So I got myself suspended, for being an idiot. My fault.
I now have 1 reputation. But while I was sitting on the front page of the site where I'm suspended, somebody upvoted one of my answers. I ...
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Topbar tells me about a +1 recovered from a deleted DVed post, but detail view doesn't show it
The topbar only tells us about reputation gains (see related issue with lost rep). But sometimes it only half-tells us:
The explanation of that +1 is nowhere to be found here. An answer that I ...
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Ghost (nonexistent) votes in reputation tab with “time” mode selected while having unread rep changes
Unfortunately I have recently received some upvotes, which means that new bugz are uncovered...
TL;DR: reputation tab in "time" mode can't count votes properly if you have unread votes. ...
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When a user who approved an edit is removed, an incorrect "-2 reverted" event appears in reputation history
I am aware that I lose reputation for suggested edits if the final approver of the edit is removed. But now there is an extraneous "reverted" event to go along with user removal:
Source: my ...
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Discouraging repwhoring - Reverse rep from answers posted shortly before the question gets closed
TL;DR I'm proposing the following:
When someone posts an answer and the corresponding question is closed within a certain amount of time after that, then, for certain close reasons, all rep gained ...
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Ignore assocation bonus rep for "New Users by reputation"
I like keeping up on new, engaged users, so in theory the New Users by Reputation page is awesome. But the problem is association bonus rep shows up there...so in between users with association bonus+ ...
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Using `M` instead of `k` when rep is >= 1M on https://chat.stackexchange.com/users
I read on https://chat.stackexchange.com/users?tab=all&sort=reputation&page=1 (mirror)
Shouldn't it be 1.03m or (if we really follow the conventions of the metric system) 1.03M instead?
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Why is the error message "You need at least 10 reputation to post more ..." not shown during composing a question?
I did create a long question on Stack Overflow which took me about two hours and then I wanted to publish it. Unfortunately it suddenly showed me then, that I am not allowed to post more than eight ...
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