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I had a reputation score of 1003 but today I found it to be 994, without being down-voted. I admit it's some time before I had any activity but will this bring a penalty? Any other reasons I could have my reputation reduced?

Many thanks

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    @RoryAlsop is right in mentioning the recent reputation recalc. However, you could also check your user profile for recent reputation changes like up/down-votes on your older posts. Commented Mar 5, 2012 at 19:40
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    I just reviewed your profile, and it doesn't look like you've had any negative-rep activity logged recently. So, the recalc must be it. However, I did notice that a couple of your posts were recently up-voted which put you back around where you started. ;-) Commented Mar 5, 2012 at 19:44

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If you have a look at questions like this one over on meta stackoverflow you will see that Stack Exchange recently updated the way they work rep calculations, and this has had an impact on some people.

As I understand it, you will lose your 1k privileges, as you have dropped under the 1k mark, but this privilege amounts to Show total up and down vote counts, and in any case, you are one upvote away from getting it back so I wouldn't worry.

The main impact is on rep from a long time ago, any more recent changes are actually just around when the rep is measured - it is now real time, as opposed to batch calculated.

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  • 1k also gives the expanded user profile on mouse-over, and allows creation of "gallery" chat rooms. Commented Mar 5, 2012 at 19:46
  • Oh - good catch. And now @Georgios is back up over 1k, so all is good :-) Commented Mar 5, 2012 at 22:24
  • Thanks for the support and motivation to work towards a higher reputation :-) Commented Mar 6, 2012 at 7:58

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