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Why does the "User was removed" link in the achievements popup link to me?
I had a moment of panic before I found out what this message means from other questions here on meta. Why does clicking on "User was removed" take me to my profile? I wasn't the one who was ...
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Reinstate the prior prevention against users deleting their accounts immediately if they've cast multiple votes
To provide context (again):
For a long while, there's been a feature where users who request deletion of their accounts and meet certain criteria for low activity (currently, not having posted on the ...
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Are bounties given by deleted users maintained or deleted?
Indeed, there is a difference in the answers of the two moderators Grace Note and Nick Craver.
I quote Grace Note in her comment on an answer to Bounties from deleted accounts should still be awarded;...
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Always preserve votes from users who are voluntarily removed
Refer here.
Summarily invalidating all votes from a user who has asked for their account to be removed is both incredibly disruptive and unnecessary. If a user asks to be removed from the site, they ...
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Is there a limit for "user was deleted" being propagated as reputation being removed? [duplicate]
Today I saw the following:
Clearly the removed user has voted a tremendous number of times on politics and it is plausible that this is related to voting irregularity.
However, I remember that ...
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Change the criteria for vote retention upon account removal
Earlier today some user deleted their profile and caused a lot of confusion because that user was an active voter, and that the reversal of their votes due to the removal of their accounts caused huge ...
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Why do I get -2 point of reputation from "user was removed", apparently for an accepted answer?
Recently, I got -2 of reputation from a removed user. I was able to track it down to the fact, that I have accepted an answer from a removed user.
The green checkmark is still there and I see no ...
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Differentiating why votes are removed on user deletion
According to Shog9's post, there are two and only two reasons why votes are removed when an account is deleted:
Some thresholds relating to vote count and number of people affected are not breached.
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'User was deleted' removed too much of my reputation [duplicate]
I will get straight to the point: I lost 155 reputation because a user was removed. Now, my question isn't about why the user was deleted, it's actually about how to contact the administration to get ...
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How many reputation points exactly should a deleted user have to prevent vote invalidation?
Yes, I know, we have this question: How can I delete my account?
But it's not clear.
Old SOru discussion: Когда аккаунт удаляется с сохранением голосов?. A user with high reputation score was ...
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Multiple events in the achivements when user was removed
According to the help page, e.g. on Stack Oveflow (emphasis is mine):
All the reputation changes from a single user's deletion are rolled into a single event in the reputation page labelled "User ...
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When users are deleted do you get reputation back from their downvotes? [duplicate]
I've noticed that I've lost some reputation when users are removed, since that's specifically called out in the inbox messages. However, I am curious if lost reputation from downvotes the user gave ...
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Deleting an account retains reputation and badges for linked chat accounts
I deleted my account on codegolf.stackexchange.com some time ago. The vast majority of my network reputation was derived from that site (I had approximately 20k rep when I deleted the account).
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Is this reputation rollback because of a removed user correct? [duplicate]
I saw I lost some reputation over on Parenting due to a removed user. Nothing unusual there.
Until I saw the details.
Now I know that reputation gain for approved edits can be rolled back when the ...
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Don't revert reputation from suggested edits when reviewer's account is deleted
I noticed something strange in the reputation of one of my accounts today:
Never saw "reverted" event before, so went to one of the suggested edits and realized what happened: the user who ...
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Reputation change -2, -1, -2, -2 on user account removal [duplicate]
Tonight I got the following reputation change notification:
According to this answer it must have happened because a user account which was used to accept my edits got removed.
Important fact: I ...
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How does a 'User was removed' affect on my reputation? [duplicate]
First have a look at my reputation page.
I started with 1 basic reputation point. Then I got +100 from the association bonus. So my total reputation became 1 + 100 = 101.
Then I edited one post and ...
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How to restore the reputation in my deleted account?
I accidentally deleted my Stack Overflow account. Then I created another account using the same email address as my deleted account, hoping that Stack Overflow would recognize my email address and ...
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I have a rep to protect. Where is it?
(Posted here as probably applies to all sites).
I was examining my reputation gain yesterday on Stack Overflow: 190. I believe I should have hit the 200 cap. Mainly due to
Is uninitialized local ...
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User was removed... But from where?
I have read the other questions here about 'user was removed'. This is not a duplicate because I understand the mechanics of the hit and have taken the hit before (although on the main site).
You ...
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Lost reputation from suggested edit approval on post left behind when account is deleted [duplicate]
On Programmers.SE, I edited a post (Must I provide my project source code if I use a library licensed under Apache 2.0?) back in November. Since it was a suggested edit, I earned +2 reputation when my ...
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Which users getting removed DON'T cause rep changes? (lost 1667 rep)
According to the help on users being removed, on how you lose rep for their upvotes being removed too:
This removal occurs whenever a user is deleted, unless that user had a
very high reputation ...
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If a user who voted on a deleted answer was removed, I get a wrong reputation alert
The following things happened:
A few months ago I posted an answer on Skeptics (10 k only).
That answer received thirtysomething upvotes (and got me this badge.
A few days later that answer was ...
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What "User was removed" means if I have no posts?
Most of us have seen on the profile page a loss of reputation citing as a reason "User was removed". This reason comes with the useful link: learn more which explains (emphasis mine):
This message ...
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Allow seeing which posts were affected by removed users [duplicate]
When the reputation changes you can see what specific post caused the change, the exception to this rule (are there others?) is when a user is removed.
When I see that my reputation has changed due ...
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-2 19 mins ago - removed - User was removed . But How -2? [duplicate]
I know that if a user is removed, all his votes will be cancelled. So some users may have negative reputation changes as a multiple of 10 or 5. But How -2 reputation change for user removal? I got ...
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How high is "very high reputation score" in user deletion process?
In Help Center you can find in the description about rep loss because "user removed":
This removal occurs whenever a user is deleted, unless that user had a very high reputation score.
Which is ...
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Why did I lose 5 reputation after a "user was removed"? [duplicate]
On my Math.SE account, it says "user was removed" and 5 reputation was deducted. What does this mean?
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I am broken: post-undelete bounty issues
Related: I am broken: post-undelete reputation issues
It appears that as a result of the account undeletion process, the bounties that I have handed out and been awarded are not correctly applied ...
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I am broken: post-undelete reputation issues
Specifically FAO Tim Post I guess, but this is probably going to relate to any StackExchange account that has previously been deleted and then put back together by the kind people at StackExchange.
I ...
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"User was removed" means I lose my hard-earned points? [duplicate]
I have been using Stack Overflow for 2 years and 9 months. I really like the way this site works. But I am totally amused by how someone else's wrong deeds cost me my hard-earned reputation points.
I ...
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Why is the "user was removed" message so vague? [duplicate]
The message that appears in the reputation tab of a user's profile when they gain or lose reputation due votes disappearing when another user is deleted is simply:
user was removed
This message is ...
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User delete events are merged in the activity/reputation drop-down thingymajig
When multiple users get deleted, the events, and reputation changes, are merged in the activity/reputation drop-down thingymajig.
These are old pictures that I've just got around to uploading. As you ...
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The "User removed" message should link to a general explanation of this event
I found out today after losing 100 rep (probably one of the users of playorm who asks a lot of questions I imagine) that when a user is removed, I lose all the rep I gained from that user. It kinda ...
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Rep -100 due to user deletion (shouldn't this be -10?) [duplicate]
Today I noticed in my rep calculation a "-100 user was removed". I'm aware of the reason that votes on answers are rolled back if users who did the vote got removed. But that would account ...
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Wiping votes on deletion of highly active accounts (-865 points on "User was removed")
Update: As MadScientist quite aptly pointed out this is also highly relevant:
Don't throw away all votes when a user is deleted at +523 votes, feature-request
I was greeted by this screen just ...
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User was removed ... Ok, why am I getting punished for it? [duplicate]
Today my reputation was decreased because of 'User was removed' criteria.
First of all the information provided about this on the reputation page is quite inadequate.
It does not explain, who got ...
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Is the reputation given for accepting an answer removed, when the account of the answer deleted?
I have noticed that for this answer, the reputation shows me this.
Does that mean the reputation given from accepting an answer is removed when the account used to answer is deleted?
I tried ...
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User was removed need to show which answer/question loses its reputation [duplicate]
Lose some reputation from stack with showing User was removed. At least please show us which answer/question loses its reputation?
No hint for reputation lost is shown.
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How can I find posts related to lost reputation due to a "user was removed" message?
Today I noticed that my reputation got truncated by 64 points, and when I looked at my reputation history, I saw a bunch of lines notifying me of points removal along to a "user was removed" message. ...
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How do I delete my account and associated posts on a specific site? [duplicate]
I want to delete my account; can anyone help me to delete my account?
The reason I want to do this is because Stack Overflow reduced my reputation by 500 points in a single day. Now I don't want to ...
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Do we lose rep for an accepted answer if the OP account is deleted? [duplicate]
I appear to have the accepted answer to this question, and a rep audit on 7th December showed the +15 rep.
But an audit today no longer shows this acceptance, even though the green tick displays when ...
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