Timeline for What is the reasoning behind the reputation cap?
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| Feb 9, 2021 at 9:22 | comment | added | peterh | Jon Skeet would have about 5million rep without the rep cap. He would not get daily 1000, only about 400. The funny thing is, that the second, third and fourth most high rep SO users together would have the same rep as Jon (they would have about 1.5million). | |
| Nov 29, 2019 at 6:20 | comment | added | user630541 | Jon isn't gaming the site, and if they were concerned about mod tools they could just put a time limit on it. This answer makes no sense. | |
| S May 3, 2017 at 19:20 | history | suggested | Stevoisiak | CC BY-SA 3.0 | minor grammar corrections |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 9:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ with https://meta.stackoverflow.com/ | |
| Feb 20, 2017 at 17:09 | comment | added | Masked Man | and why exactly do users have to "catch up" with Jon Skeet (or anyone else for that matter)? | |
| Oct 31, 2016 at 16:22 | comment | added | Honey | John has 900,000 reps now. Assuming he's been around 8 years, that means he has amassed 308 points on an average day. Roughly 7 accepted answers per a day! I get an accepted answer every 2 months. He's doing ~420X better! Sad world :( | |
| Jan 10, 2015 at 12:51 | comment | added | Marcin Kaminski | "leveling the playing field" - this is the weakest (to put very diplomatically) argument that could have been behind this. Who cares if people fall behind. They either don't have as much time as others or don't have enough knowledge and that's fine. They're providing answers for free on their own time and the cap is removing any significant incentive to do so once the cap comes into play. | |
| Oct 9, 2013 at 8:14 | comment | added | Mołot | @DanDyer OK, Jon gets 200 rep/day and no one can exceed it, but without cap he would simply get a LOT more. Now Jon and some other people are at constant distance, progressing by 200 / day. Without cap Jon would leave them behind even more. So yes, cap maintains the status quo in a way, but removing it would not help new users to catch up. It would "help" them to be further behind each day. | |
| Mar 15, 2013 at 21:33 | comment | added | user1766760 | Very amused that I wanted to ask who Jon Skeet was and found this thread. | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 17:34 | comment | added | Bernhard Barker | @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen This about covers it I think. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 20:46 | comment | added | Cole Tobin | He can edit your posts. He just has to have it be reviewed first. | |
| Aug 18, 2011 at 20:19 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | If somebody know where Jon Skeet objects to the cap, could the link be edited into this answer? | |
| May 12, 2011 at 0:04 | comment | added | Andrew Grimm | How has Jon Skeet gamed the site? He's a legitimate contributor. | |
| S Apr 14, 2011 at 23:33 | history | suggested | brunnerh | CC BY-SA 3.0 | spelling fixes |
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| Mar 10, 2011 at 21:45 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @Diago So do you have a hobby yet? ;-P | |
| Dec 4, 2010 at 15:59 | comment | added | Kos | Mentioning "stopping the site from being gamed " and "levelling the playing field " right next to each other seams a bit funny to me :) | |
| Feb 11, 2010 at 6:04 | history | edited | BinaryMisfit | CC BY-SA 2.5 | deleted 3 characters in body |
| Feb 11, 2010 at 1:15 | comment | added | antiver | I've been wondering what the intention of the reputation cap was for a couple weeks now, and finally found this. Thank you for a clear explanation; I now appreciate the reputation cap. | |
| Nov 4, 2009 at 23:28 | comment | added | Abel | +2 or more, if possible for that insightful comment, Dan D., but I don't want to push you over your cap. But suppose there was no cap. On average, the legacy of left answers and questions, will someday average on or over the 200 and will only increase. First-timers that are continuously active always have a large advantage. Weighing a vote based on the question's age is the only (?) way to balance that out and keep the system fair. | |
| Oct 3, 2009 at 15:38 | comment | added | Dan Dyer | It doesn't level the playing field, it maintains the status quo. It is not possible for a new user to catch-up to Jon Skeet unless Jon stops contributing. He gets his 200 points per day and, as nobody else can exceed that (other than the few holes in the cap), he will always stay ahead. | |
| Oct 2, 2009 at 15:01 | comment | added | Joel Coehoorn Mod | If you've legitimately earned enough votes to get 1000 rep, I wouldn't say you've gamed the site. | |
| Sep 18, 2009 at 1:30 | vote | accept | Graeme Perrow | ||
| Sep 18, 2009 at 1:11 | comment | added | random | Welcome to the club of Meta sadness Diago. But at least you're on the first page on SU. | |
| Sep 17, 2009 at 17:52 | comment | added | gnostradamus | Why can't Meta be your hobby? ;) | |
| Sep 17, 2009 at 17:52 | comment | added | AnonJr | A better example of gaming is posting dozens of (generally poor quality) questions in rapid succession and rapidly gaining rep through they typical drive-by voting and/or sympathy voting. (I'm all about voting questions up when they're good, but some questions just seem to get votes for no apparent reason...) Since rep is a measure of trust, this type of rep-farming could garner enough rep for someone who is most likely not trustworthy to do things that they probably ought not to be able to do. (IIRC that was listed in a blog post/meta topic related to the caps) | |
| Sep 17, 2009 at 17:51 | comment | added | BinaryMisfit | I find it extremely sad that I keep hitting my rep cap on Meta, but can barely get a vote on any of the other sites. I should seriously get a hobby. | |
| Sep 17, 2009 at 17:50 | history | edited | BinaryMisfit | CC BY-SA 2.5 | deleted 1 characters in body; added 649 characters in body; added 3 characters in body |
| Sep 17, 2009 at 17:45 | history | answered | BinaryMisfit | CC BY-SA 2.5 |