If you’ve been around Meta Stack Overflow the past few days, you’ve seen a fair bit of conversation sparked by the recent changes to how reputation is calculated:
To be clear: reputation values are not changing, every action in the system is still worth the same amount. Here’s what will be different:
Your reputation will be correct at all times
Deletions will have a much more immediate effect on reputation, not waiting on a recalc (but reputation sync takes up to 5 minutes on a delete/undelete action; as to not block the user’s response thread, it’s offloaded to a background queue) …
How could it be that a user with reputation of 100 started 3 bounties 500 points each. Shouldn't the system check users reputation and bound his bounty range respectively?
With the recent “REP-OCALYPSE” that happened over the weekend, we thought it was a great time to do another podcast – so come join Joel, Jarrod, and Josh as they talk about some of the recent changes to the site and the motivations behind them.
JOEL: This is not necessarily a podcast, but it might turn into something useable, perhaps in the form of a podcast, maybe. The goal is to talk about all of the questions that are getting closed, aka REP-OCALYPSE NOW.
Part One: there has been closing and deletion of very popular old questions going on lately. Are we happy with how this is going? What are the other options? …
I wanted to give you a quick look at the new Stack Exchange Beta theme. Yes, we are retiring the familiar “Sketchy” theme and rolling out a more-polished and finished design for the beta sites.
Raise the curtain, cue the trumpet fanfare…
Alas, poor Sketchy…
Over the course of the next few weeks, we will be rolling out the new Stack Exchange Beta theme to all the sites still in beta.
At first glance, the new beta theme looks like an unembellished version of any graduated site: Finished, but without any particular “beta” theme, per se. But that’s sort of the point. …
