@MarkTrapp What is the point of a rep recalc?

why is it necessary?

When posts are deleted, or other, weirder, more edgier cases occur, a user's reputation doesn't automatically reflect the changes. So what their displayed rep is, over time, becomes more and more off from what their actual rep is. The reputation recalc fixes that by going through all the user's posts and calculating them again as if it just happened

@MarkTrapp Normalization in short

Right

I lost 200

that seems about right

I try to do it regularly, but I estimate I've lost ~2000 or so over the course of the last 18 months

Such is the price we all pay for participating in honeypot questions that get deleted as part of the ongoing cleanup of the site :P

I suspect it's my point gain patterns and lowish rep

compared to the other candidates

Surprised that a few candidates had ~1000 rep loss. We did a survey a few months ago and there were only a handful of people who would've been significantly affected by a global rep recalc

@MarkTrapp have you ever seen "how to get rejected by OC Remix"?

I feel we should do something similar for Programmers

@AnnaLear I headfaked myself into a differential equation and I'm not sure what Wolfram is telling me, what does the result on this page mean? wolframalpha.com/input/?i=y%27%3Darcsin%28x%29e^x

@AnnaLear ok time to shoot my pride in the face and head over to math.SE

and people think we treat them like morons

I exaggerate of course

but I always feel like I'm looking Cthulhu in the face over there

at least on TCS I know what they are talking about in vague general terms

@Jae generally speaking no

but I can probably answer the question so ask away in chat

For PHP, I defer to @YannisRizos

I would generally say yes except that there will be less formal language stuff on PhP due to it being something of an ad hoc language