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    I don't think you were a member in 2007.
    – Henk Holterman
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 14:33
  • It's not really new. You could have been 'recalculated' and lost those points too, maybe after being the victim of some serial downvoting. The plus here is that you will now have less (and smaller) sudden surprises.
    – Henk Holterman
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 14:35
  • @Henk: my start date was an estimate, as I indicated. My reputation was displayed publicly on multiple websites for years [apparently artifically inflated]...what is worse: to artifically inflate, or to suddenly downgrade people like me? [either way, not anything which I did through my use of SO].
    – pearcewg
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 14:52
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    This isn't the first global rep recalc in history, there have been several -- there was one less than a year ago. So it's not like being a member forever means you took more of a hit; it's still only going to apply to stuff that happened since the last recalc. And it looks like you didn't even notice the others, so ragequitting now that they've finally fixed this behavior and it will never happen again seems kind of insane. Particularly over 380 rep, which you can literally recover in two days
    – Michael Mrozek
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 15:37
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    Um, honestly, I don't consider gathering 3,648 rep points over the course of three years and five months to be "working hard." Now, if you were Jon Skeet and your rep got halved, I'd say you had a point...
    – user1228
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 16:04
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    Just realized I linked to the recalc that happened two years ago; here's the one that was last year
    – Michael Mrozek
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 16:09
  • Joined Oct 1 '08, last seen 1 hour ago
    – ale
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 16:25
  • You’ve lost ~1% of your reputation. No big deal, right?
    – Konrad Rudolph
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 17:28
  • @Konrad - I wouldn't be commenting over 1%
    – pearcewg
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 17:31
  • @Al - Something isn't right with my start date. I took a new job in June 2008, and on the job before that I know I was a member of SO and had posted questions. I think my start date has been altered by SO at some point.
    – pearcewg
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 17:32
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    @pearcewg Sorry, I can’t count. But while I can empathise with your pain (the first rep recalc in history hit me even more (much more) severely!) remember that this change doesn’t actually come out of the blue. The new reputation is actually the real, legitimate score. The displayed score before was never the right one, it was merely out of sync with reality.
    – Konrad Rudolph
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 18:54
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    This is THE MOST HYPERBOLIC ARGUMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. equivalent to slander and defamation is pretty over the top. It's a bunch of fake points that don't mean anything and can't be used for anything, and are FREE TO GIVE. Huh?
    – JNK
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 19:42
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    Here is why my argument is valid: imgur.com/VrCN8 The vast majority of my downgrade in reputation is because the questions I commented on were deleted! That wasn't anything I did, but I'm being penalized for it. Bye bye SO.
    – pearcewg
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 21:50
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    Bye bye pearcewg
    – David Heffernan
    Commented Mar 2, 2012 at 22:39
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    @pearcewg you aren't being penalized. It's a correction. You didn't LOSE anything, something was removed that should never have been granted in the first place. It sucks that you got so much rep from off-topic questions in the first place, but if that's your only contribution then don't let the screen door hit you on the way out.
    – JNK
    Commented Mar 4, 2012 at 17:06