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How does rep work here?
I see there is a number next to each users' name, which in some places is even called "rep". That makes sense.
What is mysterious is how it's calculated. My rep makes no sense. I started out writing one answer to a meta post. That answer got 1 downvote. That should make my rep negative, or at least 0 since it was on meta. However, a day later it was 7. Huh? What? I don't see any logic why my rep should have been positive.
Then I wrote a meta question and somehow my rep jumped to 12. That makes no sense. Asking a question by itself shouldn't be something we reward. We should be trying to reward good content, none of which I have provided so far. And, meta really isn't content anyway.
Please explain.
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The votes shown on questions / answers are net (positive less negative).
Rep is calculated at +5 Question upvote
-2 Question downvote
+10 Answer upvote
-2 Answer downvote
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You started at 1
downvote -> -1
two upvotes and another downvote -> 7
one more upvote -> 12
total: two downvotes and three upvotes, your EE proposal is net +1.
To address your other concerns, please keep in mind that this is the original qpixel reputation level, so this will all be changing down the road.
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