reputation becomes negative?

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reputation becomes negative?

4.14K viewsFebruary 2, 2016General

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kenny 2 Posted January 31, 2016

Hi Rahul,

is it normal that a user’s reputation become negative value?

http://howtovan.com/user/kenny/reputation/

so for testing, i created some questions and answers myself.

then deleted questions after, strange enough, my reputation becomes -14. does it make sense?

Rahul Aryan commented February 1, 2016

Look like a bug. I will fix it.

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2016-02-01T18:16:16+00:00

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Dima Stefantsov 1.58K Posted January 31, 2016 2 Comments

Although trying to remove reputation user got from questions is a good thing (this happened to me, can’t say for sure it removed proper values, but something was removed indeed), more things should be removed together with question. For example empty reputation lines are left behind.

Other than that, negative reputation is ok. Users can get rep, users can lose rep.

Rahul Aryan commented February 1, 2016

Thanks for letting us know. Issue added to task list.

kenny commented February 2, 2016

deducting points from user when answer/question deleted make sense, but having negative total reputation, hmm not that much. say you add a new question +5 pts, delete the same question should be -5, i guess? so the sum should be 0. but now, even in the reputation history page, the events and total pooints do not match.

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