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Understanding Stack Overflow Vote-to-Reputation Mapping
Stack Overflow translates every upvote and downvote into reputation points, but the system caps daily gains at 1,000 points and applies a 10% decay to posts older than one year.
stackoverflowreputation-systemreputation-decayTasadduq Burneyowner34.8K rep · 03 Nov 2026, 03:24 UTC