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Reputation plots seem to be broken at this time. There are just blank spaces, on pages where they'd normally appear.

Users with high enough reputation on MathOverflow get increasing amounts of power on the site.  Generally, it works rather well. 

Why are upvotes and downvotes shown separately?  If a question/post is disliked by a lot of people, it should show up as 'negative' (like it does on MathOverflow).  And it should affect people's reputation too!  People who ask sufficiently bad questions (and enough of them) should receive this feedback from the community.  It's what makes the community self-policing!

An important part of the new MaplePrimes is the reputation system. Reputation gives users access to different features of the site, and is also a quick way for people to get a better idea of how knowledgeable a users might be about Maple.

Since MaplePrimes has been around since 2004, it is important to preserve all of the reputation that our long-time users have built up. There wasn't any method for voting posts before, so we can't use the same algorithm as we'll use going forward. So we came up with a new method using comments to signify an up-vote.

The algorithm is very simple. For every post, question, or answer that you posted on the old Primes, for every comment that is added to your item, you receive 4 reputation points. Also, using the same limit we'll use in the future, you are limited to gaining 200 reputation points in a single day.

We find that this algorithm has done a great job of exposing the top MaplePrimes users as you can see on the top users list. Over time as people start up-voting posts, questions and answers, the reputation scores will continue to grow, and this method for calculating the back-reputation will become less meaningful as the reputation gained from up-votes will overpower the initial reputation that legacy users received from the back-reputation.

There appears to me to be more emphasis in the new Mapleprimes on personal reputation, as opposed to ranking of posts & replies.

I'd prefer to see more emphasis by the admins on ways to disseminate the best tips and answers than on automated reputation marking.

It looks like hubris. To paraphrase Carly Simon's great song, "you're so vain, you probably think this post is about you..."

I haven't been logged into this site regularly for a while, being busy with other things.

But I've just noticed that, some time in the past few weeks, Robert Israel's eponymous handle has attained a mapleprimes points number that exceeds the total of all the handles that I've ever used here. So... congratulations, Robert!

I've...