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How can I help? Novice in Electrical
You are not a novice user. You have been around for nearly two years. On every StackExchange site on which you've posted questions, you have been told patiently how to improve them, and how to ...
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Points for the first and second answerer
If anything, we have the reverse problem. Twice in just the last few days, I saw a question with only one mediocre answer, wrote a good answer, and discovered that the OP had accepted the mediocre ...
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Points for the first and second answerer
Speed is not what I would like to see in answers.
Way too many people already jump on new questions with badly worded, half explained answers that contain the truthful core of an answer, but none of ...
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Low quality question tag?
You have a history of asking poor questions. These get downvoted and/or closed, and the system has locked you out as a result. This is to protect the site from more of the same crap you've already ...
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I downvoted an answer today and that downvote shows to have deducted my reputation by 1. Why?
Another way to look at it is, once you've earned a few hundred reputation points, you can spend those hard-earned points moving bad answers down.
Downvoting bad questions is free, but downvoting a ...
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Accepting an answer based on the reputation of its sender/poster
Summary: Trying to understand why an OP does X or Y can't be answered with certainty, unless we ask that OP (and we might not be able to believe their reply - they might tell us what they think we ...
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How can I help? Novice in Electrical
This is getting ridiculous.
You have clearly learned nothing from your previous questions here. Attempting to answer this question would be pointless, and just repeating what was previously said ...
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users below 50 rep can still comment OP
First, your answer was deleted and turned into a comment by a moderator. As long as your comment is relevant to the question, I'm not going to just delete it to enforce the rules, consider it some ...
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Reputation changes
If the user was low rep, they take the points away. If they were high rep (if I remember right, 6000+ rep) then they leave it.
The rep can't be tracked
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Reputation changes
No, you cannot find out, all you get to see are the consequences.
IIRC, when they remove a user, there is a choice to allow points to be removed or kept but they look at "the greater good" ...
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I downvoted an answer today and that downvote shows to have deducted my reputation by 1. Why?
That's the way the system works. Read the rules, then get over it.
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible