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When I visit the reputation tab of my profile, I see a lot of stuff. I can make out some of it, but not all.

  • What do all the event types mean?
  • Why do some events show an odd reputation gain or not show any reputation change at all?
  • Why are some events sometimes highlighted in yellow?
  • My reputation suddenly dropped, but I don't see anything. What happened?
  • Why do some events disappear from my reputation history?

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Would this be the place to explain about the reputation history available also at /reputation and the graphs in the network profiles? –  Lix Sep 6 '12 at 23:36
@Lix: I suppose it could be relevant, but I'm not sure what exactly to explain concerning either of those. –  animuson Sep 6 '12 at 23:38
@ani - Main thing I think would be the network reputation charts. That you can see roughly how much reputation you had at a certain date. It also shows all the sites together... –  Lix Sep 6 '12 at 23:47
@Lix It would certainly be a place to mention it, so that a user like me who had seen it once and forgotten where to get it would find out that stackoverflow.com/reputation is where to go if you want a single page of text listing post numbers in chronological order, separated by dates, showing the rep change associated with that post at that time, so thanks! –  AndrewC May 30 '13 at 23:16
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What are all the event types and what do they mean?

  • upvote / downvote - Your post was upvoted or downvoted.

  • unupvote / undownvote - An upvote or downvote previously cast on the post was retracted.

  • downvoted - Note the extra "d" at the end; you cast a downvote on an answer. Downvotes you cast on questions are not shown in your reputation history and do not affect your reputation.

  • accept / unaccept - Your answer was accepted or unaccepted by the OP, or you accepted an answer on one of your questions.

  • bounty - You offered a bounty on a question or a bounty was awarded on your answer.

  • removed - Most often, the post was deleted (this could be any post you took action on, not necessarily a post you owned). Keep in mind that when a question is deleted, all of its answers are automatically deleted as well. This event is also used when a user is removed. Note that when a post gets deleted, the question's title will be shown in plain text to those who do not have access to view it.

  • migrated - Your post was migrated to another site.

  • edit - An edit you suggested to a post or tag wiki was approved.

  • reversal - Another user serially voted on your posts, which got reversed.






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Why are events sometimes highlighted in yellow?


My reputation dropped, but I don't see anything listed!

This can be caused by one of several different reasons:

  • Removed posts are hidden. More than likely, you don't have your reputation history set to show removed posts. By default, removed posts are hidden from the history pages. In order to show removed posts, you need to make sure the checkbox all the way at the bottom is checked.

    show removed posts



Why would an event disappear from my reputation history?


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Note that the distinction of downvote vs downvoted is not currently consistent between desktop and mobile version. I commented on this here. –  Aaron Bertrand Sep 22 '12 at 19:57
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