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Q&A 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 wr...

1 answer · posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭ · last activity 4y ago by Sigma‭

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Olin Lathrop‭ · 2020-06-02T12:40:30Z (over 4 years ago)

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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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