Answer by Elikill58 for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
Maybe I'm late, but I just read some answers and I didn't see an important point: Reward for reviews.On Stack Overflow, I made over 13k reviews and the only things I received was badges. It's cool to...
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There are already some suggestions to handle voting differently depending on the number of votes. We should consider also handling it differently for new users. A current oddity revolves around the...
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Answer by Werner for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
There is currently no consideration for reputation across sites when performing cross-network actions, specifically, in terms of migration. Here's a concrete example:A user has lots of reputation on...
View ArticleAnswer by etuardu for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
What is broken about it, and why?Sometimes bounties are used to "buy" a working piece of code to copy and paste, which rewards answers that simply do the homework for the original poster and...
View ArticleAnswer by Not My Name for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's...
More Detailed DownvotesProblemHaving experienced this myself, it is the worst thing ever when you ask a question and it is closed, with the message "off-topic" or "opinion-based" and you don't even get...
View ArticleAnswer by Kerrick Staley for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's...
A frustration for me (I currently have ~1300 reputation on Stack Overflow) is that when I want to edit posts, I usually get an error saying the review queue is full. I can't do anything about this...
View ArticleAnswer by Jodrell for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
Simple answers to common questions get lots of reputation.If you are lucky or, old enough to answer a question that is easy to understand and commonly asked, you'll likely get lots of reputation. Even...
View ArticleAnswer by Keats for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
This is a small, specific suggestion, but it may be totally unfeasible given I know nothing of how the Stack Exchange backend is designed, or problematic in other ways.As a long-time user (I have...
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Answer by Rubén for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
TL;DR:In general, the reputation system might be doing a good work as the large user base is using the system properly and most of those having a high reputation have fairly earned it. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleAnswer by Badrul for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
What definitely is not working is that the only way for new users to get enough reputation to comment is through either posting or answering a question.I'm now in the ridiculous position of trying to...
View ArticleAnswer by cjfp for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
Solution: consider network reputation for comment privilegesI am a very low-rep user who has used SE for a long time, mostly as a reader. The "problem" part of this answer has more-or-less already been...
View ArticleAnswer by OldPadawan for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's...
What is broken about it, and why? Are there any solutions to it?It's not broken in the sense "needs to be fixed", but something that could maybe be modified/extended. I'm talking about janitorial...
View ArticleAnswer by Karl Knechtel for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's...
A more specific proposal for handling per-question reputationWorking within the reputation system generally, several previous answers (including my own) seem to have highlighted some points of...
View ArticleAnswer by Sir Cornflakes for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's...
Users without up/downvoting privileges should be able to vote up and down on answers to their own questionsI find it odd that users who haven't yet unlocked the up/downvote privileges—typically new...
View ArticleAnswer by Lundin for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
First of all, thanks for bringing this up to discussion with the community before jumping the gun and implementing some change.What is really great about our reputation & privilege system? What do...
View ArticleAnswer by benc for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
Reputation for tags (1500) vs. edits (2000)As someone that's been around for a long time (since the private beta), I'm at the stage where reputation is just a target number for earning the privs to...
View ArticleAnswer by Steve Bennett for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's...
Not working: minimum rep to add commentsThis has been broken forever. The way people want to enter a complex system like Stack Overflow is by dipping a toe in the water: making a tiny contribution and...
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(This answer is primarily driven by my experience with Stack Overflow, and my understanding of the Stack Overflow tour page; but I have confidence that the same principles should apply more or less...
View ArticleAnswer by Willa for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
I'll offer my thoughts as a new-ish contributor, who's slowly contributed maybe a dozen or so Q's and A's over a span of several years.What about reputation is working to make me a good contributor:The...
View ArticleAnswer by Braiam for The Stack Exchange reputation system: What's working?...
Speaking about reputation without speaking about voting (the main source of reputation) will be the opposite of intelligence. All the woes caused by reputation that people complain about are caused by...
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