I asked a question here in Meta. I wanted to know if I could offer a bounty and ask ELL users to help me improve my downvoted answers or understand why they are wrong. That probably wasn't a good idea (well, it saved me 50 rep, so that is good). One suggestion was to see if anyone here is willing...

Today I visited the site and noticed that my reputation has increased by almost 3000. I didn't have my question or answeres upvoted. Is that some kind of bug?