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@moderators: No reputation points for accepted answers
Seems like I don't get any reputation points. The last 2 accepted answers I gave didn't result in any reputation. While one of them was a solution to my own question the other one was regular:
Blender 2.57 fbx not visible in Unity 3.4.2 f2
My karma history shows the last entry in September. There are 3 more answers not accepted but upvoted. Don't know how your implementation works, but at stackoverflow.com I earn points in this case too.
Answer by syclamoth · Dec 01, 2011 at 10:13 AM
Accepted answers don't give karma. Only upvotes do. Unfortunately, this is not, in fact, stack-overflow- the system doesn't work the same way. If you're so keen on rep points, give answers that several people will consider worth upvoting!
Ah I see, good to know, so I accepted and upvoted your answer:-) $$anonymous$$aybe this is worth to be considered for future updates, because I$$anonymous$$O if a user accepts an answer, I would suppose it was helpful. Otherwise s/he won't click.
Heh, If I got rep for every answer that was 'accepted' but not upvoted, I'd have at least 500 more!
Quite a few of my answers on SO are 0 voted but accepted. Especially if you are answering in a less popular more specialist domain like sensor algorithms, there are only few people interested. So this approach would promote working in an expert niche as well.
This entire board is an 'expert niche'- there aren't really that many people here. Almost all the users make exactly one post and then never come back- there are probably less than 50 regular active users.
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll consider adding this to the platform. We're always looking for additional things to grant reputation for.
Answer by BiG · Dec 01, 2011 at 01:25 PM
Hi Kayy, syclamoth has already answered you, but I let you notice another thing: on your personal profile, you have another information than karma, that's the "accept rate". It would clarify your doubt: as syclamoth already said, karma is given by upvotes (+15, for every upvote), while accept rate will increase with answers marked as correct ones. While I'm writing, you've give 10 answers (even to your own questions, doesn't matter), and 3 of those are marked green. 3 out of 10 is 30%, in an integer approximation, that's your actual accept rate.
Ah, and your karma is 121 = 15*8+1, where 8 is the total number of upvotes that you've received, and 1 is the initial amount of karma for every user.
Thanks for clearing this up and +1. Posting in more than system can lead to confusion :-)
Answer by Owen-Reynolds · Dec 02, 2011 at 12:34 AM
With points for answers, people tended to cut&paste answers for commonly asked Q's, since it got them more points. Now seems like I see more posts referring back to the perfectly good old answer, which is more how this forum should work.