Changing reputation; somtimes it goes up, then down again

Question

Maybe related to the recent bug, mentioned here, but I noticed my reputation sometimes unexpectedly increases (you never know what you did :), but then goes back to what you actually should have at that moment. At first I thought my mind was playing tricks on me, but see the screenshots of two windows at the same moment. (The lowest is correct).

Is anyone else experiencing the same?

Answer 1

This should explain everything:

VoteTypeId CreationDate            DeletionDate            TargetUserId TargetRepChange
---------- ----------------------- ----------------------- ------------ ---------------
1          2014-08-20 14:08:31.280 2014-08-20 14:08:33.450 72216        15             

Where VoteTypeId 1 is "accepted an answer" - which is, as shown: a +15 reputation change.

Basically, somebody accepted your answer, then unaccepted it 2 seconds later:

• maybe they mis-clicked the first time
• maybe another answer was even better than yours

Note: we advertise rep increases through the realtime updates, but we don't advertise decreases as aggressively - for those, you sometimes need to wait until the next page load.

If I look back a few more days, there are indeed a few similar - some "accepted an answer", some "upvoted" - but cancelled within a few seconds. So yes, sometimes people change their minds for whatever reason.