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"Top users" for this week is completely messed up

When I visit this page, showing the total reputation for the week per-user, the numbers are all messed up. For some users, it shows much more than just the total rep for this week, while for others (...
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[Suggestion]: New user start from non-zero reputation points?

Let's be honest, this site is challenging for a new user to work with. Our new users are struggling. But why are they struggling? Many our new users are more than technically capable of answering ...
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2 answers
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Could we earn reputation for useful flags / janitorial votes?

Rambling introduction Most of the other network sites are doing fine, but Stack Overflow… is currently having some issues. Could we revisit the Reputation for useful flag proposal? The diamond ...
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5 answers
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Increase the amount of reputation a new user starts with

I've been thinking. New users start with 1 reputation. This means downvotes have no effect on their reputation, at least until we get their first upvote. This network is gamified for a reason. There'...
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1 answer
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Trade badges for points

I looked for this topic and got no results, so I am asking the obvious: Could users trade points for badges? For instance: 100 points for a bronze badge, 250 for a silver badge, 500 for a gold badge
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Require reputation for answer, not for comment

Stack Overflow requires 50 reputation for commenting and no rep for answering. But answering is for experts and commenting is for everyone. Anyone may want to say many things by commenting. Also they ...
AA Shakil's user avatar
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1 answer
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"Accept" reputation events should be grouped with other events on the same post

I have three reputation events on one post: Up vote (+5) Down vote (-2) Accepted answer (+2) But the header text shows three events instead of grouping all three events. Also the count is showing +5/-...
Ramesh Rajendran's user avatar
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3 answers
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Flagging a post as a duplicate should cost reputation points

As of now one of the ways to perform a point-free aggressive action against a poster is to flag the post as a duplicate leaving one more avenue that opens the system to abuse. There should be a speed-...
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2 answers
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Sort answers by most reputed user's answer first

Many a time I found that "users with more reputation" has given better answers than the highest voted answer for the question. Is it possible to add a sorting option for the answers with most reputed ...
LCJ's user avatar
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-23 votes
1 answer
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Is possible to introduce the concept of weight of an answer/question?

I suppose that an answer about C# voted by Eric Lippert and Jon Skeet is more endorsed (and maybe should be taken more into account) that another one voted by 2 random developers. I think it will be ...
Eric Javier Hernandez Saura's user avatar
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3 answers
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Should rep gains be turned off for Documentation's seeding period? [closed]

Given worries about inflationary rep gain and about low-quality content being posted, would it not be wise to turn off any rep gain from Documentation activity until things have settled? This would ...
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200 rep cap is not reached

On this answer of mine the vote count is now at 19 (+21-2). I didn't reach the 200 reputation points cap, but the reputation points don't add up (stuck at 190): Others have already encountered that, ...
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Documentation reputation doesn't seem to be disabled [closed]

A few hours ago I got the Documentation Preview Now On Stack Overflow email. It said that: While we’re getting our ducks in a row for the public beta, a few things are disabled: [...] ...
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4 answers
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Shop system. Reputation points buyable for real currency

Make a shop system, in which we can buy reputation packs for real money. There should be daily limit on how much of reputation we can buy a day. There could be also other features to buy. Here are my ...
John Lock's user avatar
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-5 votes
1 answer
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Please, please modify the serial downvoting script so that it does not give rep back to the perps

I was hit today, 7 downvotes on my answers within one minute. I've outed a lot of vamps/deadbeats lately and I don't expect that this wil be the last such incident:( OK, unlike the 'usual' where I ...
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