I just lost 2 reputation because the user was removed. I believed that it was gained from a successful suggested edit a while back. I suggested an edit successfully again but it didn't return me the 2 reputation. I know I've suggested 500 edits but if I lose reputation because an edit got removed, shouldn't I have the chance to recover it?

Gaining rep here on this site is hard for me. I'm not a programmer that knows even 50% of the material being asked. Anyways, the linked question is not regarding the same concept. I meant can I earn it back via editing another one? Btw, the linked question is regarding votes but I was asking if I can edit a new post to get 2 rep back. –  puretppc Apr 28 at 21:16
You mean you hit the reputation cap for suggested edits? I'd expect you to already have earned it. The first edit you were ever capped for would now not be capped. –  Martijn Pieters Apr 28 at 21:17
Check stackoverflow.com/reputation and see at the bottom what your suggested edit rep total is. –  Martijn Pieters Apr 28 at 21:18
> "Gaining rep here on this site is hard for me." Then do something else. Go to a hackathon. Read a book. Try a different StackExchange. "I'm not a programmer that knows even 50% of the material being asked." Programming is a huge field. Literally no one does. –  AAA Apr 28 at 21:18
No my real question here is if my suggested edit is removed shouldn't it count as 499 suggested edits gained rep off of not 500? Therefore allowing me to get 1 scored suggested edit –  puretppc Apr 28 at 21:19
@puretppc: I don't know 50% of the material being asked. I'll be happy with the tiny corner I frequent. I won't ever beat Jon Skeet at his corner, but lucky for me he won't stand much of a chance in my corner either. –  Martijn Pieters Apr 28 at 21:22
Somewhat related: a declined flag is eternal. No statute of limitations can expunge it. –  Gayot Fow Apr 28 at 21:22
You alreaedy got 233k easily. –  puretppc Apr 28 at 21:22
@puretppc: define easily. :-) That didn't happen overnight.. –  Martijn Pieters Apr 28 at 21:24
236,663/1718 = 137.75x my rep. Also, 236,663/5 = 47333 reps per year. Me, I have 1,718/0.5 = 3436 (projected). –  puretppc Apr 28 at 21:26
@puretppc Just because somebody is better than you at something doesn't mean that thing is "easy" for them. Have you considered that he's just spending more of his time here, trying harder? –  meagar Apr 28 at 21:27
How 10k answers in 5 years is easy?! –  brasofilo Apr 28 at 21:27
If you're so upset that someone is able to get more rep than you by knowing more, why don't you spend some time learning more relevant information/getting better at what you do instead of whining about losing 2 rep points? –  eddie_cat Apr 28 at 21:28
Programming is hard, I don't know why we're talking about this when I just made myself a joke that rep is hard for me. 99% of the questions being asked, I could hardly understand lol –  puretppc Apr 28 at 21:29
@puretppc: my first year on SO I gained 615 points, the second year I gained 510 points; it takes time. –  Martijn Pieters Apr 28 at 21:29

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If the message says User removed then all you lost were votes, not suggested edits. The total reputation you earned from that user was +2. That could have been an answer upvote + 4 downvotes by that user, or 2 question upvotes, and 4 downvotes, or any other combination of voting that leaves you +2 points up, netto.

When a user is removed, all their votes are removed too as if they were never cast.

If the message states that a specific post was removed, then the +2 from an accepted suggested edit was reversed instead.

If you had previously hit the suggested edits cap (500 edits and +1000 reputation), then you didn't lose any reputation; your reputation will automatically be recalculated to cap one edit later.

The -2 message in your reputation history only notifies you that a previously earned +2 no longer exists; it is removed from your reputation history at the point it was originally added. Instead, your first suggested edit +2 rep that was ever capped will now not be capped, and you haven't lost any net reputation.

The reason that new suggested edits don't gain you another +2 is that you are still capped, just one edit later.

You can verify your total suggested edits reputation at the bottom of the http://stackoverflow.com/reputation debug view. It'll state, as the last line:

earned <xxxx> reputation from suggested edits

Wait a day to make sure recalculation has had a chance to kick in.

A suggested edit got removed. So that means I have completed and claimed points for (500-1) edits shouldn't I? I remember before that I lost 2 points when I had the rights to gain points and I was able to regain it back. But now even if ALL 500 scored edits were removed, I cannot resuggest anymore edits to get points back? –  puretppc Apr 28 at 21:24
@puretppc: That's because you are back up to 1000 points for suggested edits; you regained the 2 points automatically and are still capped. –  Martijn Pieters Apr 28 at 21:25
I had 1720 rep before the deleted one, so they knocked off 2 rep without taking another edit. That's why I'm asking this –  puretppc Apr 28 at 21:26
@puretppc: what does stackoverflow.com/reputation say at the bottom? And did you wait a day yet since the message? –  Martijn Pieters Apr 28 at 21:27
Nah it was recent. So you're saying that I will get back 2 rep automatically soon? –  puretppc Apr 28 at 21:30
@puretppc: did you look at that link? What does the very last line say? –  Martijn Pieters Apr 28 at 21:31
earned 1000 reputation from suggested edits. And it still says 1720 –  puretppc Apr 28 at 21:32
@puretppc: wait a day. This always happens with a rebalancing of a cap. –  Martijn Pieters Apr 28 at 21:33
Nope, it's been more than 24 hours yet it didn't return me back the 2 rep. Looks like it's glitched. –  puretppc Apr 29 at 23:11
Then you didn't lose the rep for a suggested edit. You lost it some other way; perhaps the user upvoted one of your answers, downvoted 4 others. –  Martijn Pieters Apr 29 at 23:14
Yeah but if that was the case, wouldn't it have said -5 rep instead? THe other downvotes would've been factored in long ago right? That's why I think there's no other way besides edits this could happen –  puretppc Apr 29 at 23:17
No, one answer upvote is +10, 4 downvotes is -8, so you gained a total of +2 rep. Deleting the user deletes all the votes, so you lost the net +2 again. –  Martijn Pieters Apr 29 at 23:20
I don't know about that but I was never downvoted of any of my SO answers. I even checked through all answers individually and retrieved all user votes. –  puretppc Apr 30 at 0:12
If the user was deleted the votes are gone too now; hard to verify after the fact. –  Martijn Pieters Apr 30 at 0:38
I know that it gets deleted and the reputation was reverted but either way wouldn't I have lost 5 reputation not 2? Because the only way to gain 2 points is to suggest an edit. –  puretppc Apr 30 at 1:11

The easiest way to lose two rep from a user being deleted is if the user had upvoted you. That vote is no longer counted, and you lose the rep you received from it.

Normally an upvote awards you more than 2 rep, but there's also a daily reputation limit. If you were near the limit when that vote was cast, it might have only been worth +2.

It's possible that you could still receive the 2 rep back, this could happen if you received another vote on the same day and received no reputation for it (because the now-deleted vote pushed you to the cap), then that vote will start counting on the next rep recalc.

I don't think I ever reached the rep cap. –  puretppc Aug 1 at 20:29

Similarly, I reached 1000 reputation without making 500 edits. Yet, I don't have a chance to receive my 500 +2's from edits since my edits don't need approval anymore.

However, there are still several ways you may recover your 2 rep:

  • you can ask a question and receive an upvote
  • you can answer something and receive an upvote
  • you can suggest a tag wiki edit or create a tag wiki
  • you can get a bounty for working on a difficult question

that really should be enough. I don't understand the mentality of being stingy with rep. The point here is to be productive in your own programming life and those of the community, so quibbling over rep in corner cases is really silly - especially when there are less silly ways to get 5x the rep back instantly.

After 2k rep, you can't suggest anymore edits for points. You can gain a total of 1k rep from editing. –  puretppc Apr 28 at 21:20

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