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Why is Stack Overflow's popularity decreasing? [closed]

I wrote the following query on data.stackexchange.com. It returned some astonishing results. https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1273685/stackoverflow-average-votes-vs-viewed-count ...
jerrymouse's user avatar
9 votes
1 answer
157 views

Is there any cap to how much a user can upvote another user on SO?

I recently checked the daily reputation gain of some of the more well established users on SO simply out of curiosity. Then I noticed this a user had lost 1100 reputation during a single day and when ...
MarkusAnd's user avatar
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3 votes
0 answers
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UI - Reputation graph has a smaller gap for a certain period of days

The gap between days is smaller for a certain period of days And it's reproducible in multiple user's graph Update Since it seems using the lib highcharts I searched one of their official demos ...
keikai's user avatar
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-12 votes
1 answer
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Why do I not receive reputation for answering question? [closed]

I check Stack Overflow every day and one thing that surprised me is that the users do not upvote my answers or select my answer as The Answer when my answer is the solution. Am I missing something ...
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3 votes
0 answers
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Do I have reputation on meta? [duplicate]

This is weird. On meta.SO I seem to have my own reputation, different from my Stack Overflow reputation. Yet, according to the FAQs, there is no reputation on any meta site (other than this one, ...
Eb946207's user avatar
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-27 votes
3 answers
202 views

General thoughts on Stack Exchange: Please do something [closed]

I just want to get this straight. On Stack Exchange, there are reputation-walls everywhere. Why do I need enough reputation to comment? This forces me to make an answer, which always gets downvoted ...
Philippos Slicher's user avatar
11 votes
1 answer
134 views

Any mechanism to prevent rep farming with no-brainer editing?

I've just came from the Suggested Edits review queue of StackOverflow because I found an user who was farming reputation with no-brainer editing. The reason why I referred it as "farming" ...
Tay2510's user avatar
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1 vote
0 answers
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Jon Skeet's Points without 200 limit? [duplicate]

I just read this post (and these too - 1, 2) answering how does Jon Skeet get above 200 reps a day. I was just curious to know how much Jon Skeet's reputation would be by now (14 March 2015) without ...
Confuse's user avatar
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-4 votes
3 answers
147 views

Why has my reputation decreased while nothing changed? [duplicate]

My reputation on Stack Overflow was lessened by 105 points today. Does anybody know why?
Hafiz Muhammad Shafiq's user avatar
-3 votes
2 answers
392 views

My Stack Overflow reputation score is decreasing due to Meta Stack Overflow?

I have asked a question on Meta Stack Overflow. The question was not up to standards according to Meta Stack Overflow policy, so due to the question my reputation became zero. But now my Stack ...
Ayaz Ali Shah's user avatar
0 votes
2 answers
198 views

How can I improve My reputation on Stack overflow? [duplicate]

I am new on this website. I have thirteen reputations on this website. I wants to ask that, how can I improve my reputations ? Sometimes I want to vote up for any question but website don't let me do ...
Intsab Haider's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
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Why my reputation decreased on Stack Overflow ? [duplicate]

I can not find any proper reason for that. As the reputation Tab is not Showing any red coloured -reputation. Yesterday Night when I logged off it was 157, and on morning it is 153, I want to learn ...
Adnan Ahmad Khan's user avatar
15 votes
6 answers
452 views

Does reputation really reflect how much the community should trust me?

I've been a member of StackOverflow for almost 2 years. I only became active about a year ago. Today my rep is 6382. https://stackoverflow.com/users/1212341/dave-a I earned that ranking because of ...
Dave Alperovich's user avatar
-14 votes
1 answer
427 views

How can I contribute to Stack Overflow just by voting and never answering/posting questions? [duplicate]

Most of the time, I don't need to ask questions to find the answers I am looking for. Because I just find all the answers on Stack Overflow. It is a huge resource of good tips, tricks and solutions. ...
lvr123's user avatar
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-16 votes
2 answers
206 views

Is building up reputation on Stack Overflow to up- and down-vote worth it? [duplicate]

I am a junior developer and visit Stack Overflow multiple times a day to get answers on all sorts of development topics; however I do not have enough reputation to say if comments are helpful or not. ...
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