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I answered a question and got +30 for the first 3 upvotes. Then I got another upvote, but no more reputation. Why did I stop getting rep for upvotes?


marked as duplicate by gnat, nhahtdh, Martijn Pieters, rayryeng, Ken White Aug 15 at 22:39


You reached daily reputation cap. –  Rikayan Bandyopadhyay Apr 21 at 2:49
See How does “Reputation” work? –  Werner Apr 21 at 2:53
Shouldn't the reputation cap be removed for answers you added that day? I mean, if you give a reputation cap, then users won't be motivated to answer questions after they hit the 200 cap. –  Joshua Kissoon Apr 21 at 2:55
It doesn't work that way. If it was, users like Jon Skeet would have got 5 million reputation points by now. Also, reputation can increase beyond the cap after the answers are accepted or if you earn any bounties. If you feel like not answering because of reputation not getting increased, you can try answering community wiki, which will help most users edit the answer and thus making it better. –  Rikayan Bandyopadhyay Apr 21 at 2:59
Why the downvotes? This seems like a perfectly valid question. –  Robert Karl May 26 at 18:34
@RobertKarl this is common knowledge among veteran users, and has been for a long, long time. There are posts about it all over Meta Stack Exchange, the old Meta Stack Overflow. Plus, as icktoofay points out, it's also in the help center. –  Cupcake Aug 14 at 3:57
@Shog9 you don't want to turn this into a FAQ post or something? –  Cupcake Aug 14 at 3:59
@RobertKarl: I didn't downvote, but it's probably for the same reason that many other questions get downvoted - lack of research effort. In this case, the answer is found by simply visiting the SO help center to see how reputation works. –  Ken White Aug 15 at 22:39

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up vote 10 down vote accepted

You hit the reputation cap of 200 reputation points per day.1 See the help center for more information.

1 There are some exceptions to this cap. If you care, read the article linked above.

Thank you... I had read the article before but was under the impression that new answers for the day are considered under exceptions. Just re-read it. Wish that person had waited for the next day to upvote lol –  Joshua Kissoon Apr 21 at 2:51

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