Why does my reputation keep going up? - Mathematics Meta Stack Exchange most recent 30 from math.meta.stackexchange.com 2019-08-24T04:53:02Z https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/feeds/question/23341 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/rdf https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/q/23341 0 Why does my reputation keep going up? SuperNinja741 Does Gaming https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/users/341615 2016-05-30T09:39:23Z 2016-05-31T13:03:37Z <p>I seem to be getting reputation for no reason. I mean, when I accept a question, my reputation seems to go up by at least 2, mostly 5. I'm not complaining of course, just seems an easy way to abuse the system.</p> https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23341/-/23342#23342 13 Answer by Najib Idrissi for Why does my reputation keep going up? Najib Idrissi https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/users/10014 2016-05-30T09:47:11Z 2016-05-31T13:03:37Z <p>You gain 2 points when you accept an answer (except if you wrote the answer yourself), and you get 5 points if someone upvotes one of your questions.</p> <p>To "abuse the system" here means that you write many questions that people upvote ("good questions", I guess, if upvotes are a measure of being good) and also questions that people want to answer. This is exactly what the system is for, then if you want to "abuse" it this way, by all means, do it.</p> <p><a href="https://xkcd.com/810/" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/QRy3l.png" alt="Constructive" title="And what about all the people who won&#39;t be able to join the community because they&#39;re terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ... oh."></a></p> https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23341/-/23345#23345 7 Answer by Martin Sleziak for Why does my reputation keep going up? Martin Sleziak https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/users/8297 2016-05-30T11:26:27Z 2016-05-30T12:39:21Z <p>You can easily check the reasons for gaining reputation on <a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/users/current?tab=reputation">the reputation tab in your profile</a>. In a more concise format, overview of reputation changes can be seen here: <a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/reputation">https://math.stackexchange.com/reputation</a> </p> <p>For some links leading to more detailed information about reputation, you can have a look <a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/tags/reputation/info">here</a>.</p> <hr> <p>To answer also the additional question you asked <a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/23341/why-does-my-reputation-keep-going-up#comment92165_23341">in your comment</a>: "Couldn't you abuse the system by just spamming accept answers?"</p> <p>It is true that for each accepted answer you gain 2 reputation points. But if you were posting low quality question just for the purpose of gaining reputation, your questions would be very likely downvoted and you would be losing reputation. If you are asking interesting well-thought question, then your behavior is useful for the site, so I would not call it "abuse of the system". Moreover, you cannot gain a lot of reputation too quickly in this way. You can ask <a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4742/should-we-ask-for-question-quotas-like-those-that-have-been-available-for-the-bi/4770#4770">at most 6 questions per day, at most 50 questions per month</a>.</p>