As the title suggests, I am curious to know whether the "total reputation" for an account is calculated differently from the different time-based reputations. While looking at the Year 2021 rankings I noticed a slight discrepancy:
The total value is twelve points lower than the reputation for the year. Initially I figured this was due to a caching issue, so waited until after midnight UTC for the Stack Exchange stats to be updated. However, the 12-point discrepancy persists.
Thinking this might have to do with downvotes being uncounted in the yearly calculation, I went to see how many of these have been given and how many were received.
The summary view shows 10 downvotes:
The detail view shows 3 downvotes:
Perhaps the summary includes posts that were flagged as spam? 🤔
It's difficult to quickly determine how many downvotes have been received, so a little bit of "hacking" reveals this:
This breaks down as:
- 22 points from downvotes
- 12 points from removed posts
- 3 points from posts I downvoted (though only one is in the list — oops)
Looking at these numbers, is it fair to say the following things are true:
- if we delete an answer, we're dinged 2 points (plus any points as a result of votes)
- yearly reputation calculations do not take into account removed posts
Edit:
Using the very helpful text-based reputation link, the reputation for the year is shown as being 5864, which would be 5,965 - 100 (Association Bonus) - 1 (Everyone gets a Point):
** rep today: 0
** rep this week (2021-10-24 - 2021-10-30): 93
** rep this month (2021-10-01 - 2021-10-31): 641
** rep this quarter (2021-10-01 - 2021-12-31): 641
** rep this year (2021-01-01 - 2021-12-31): 5864
** rep from bonuses: 100
** total rep 5965 :)
I guess this is just one of those situations where numbers don't match because different elements look at different criteria which is (probably) cached at different times 🤔
