Another rep points peculiarity?

There's a known issue with the values displayed in the reputation log -- all of those entries displaying +3 to your account are actually +4 events, which should account for the discrepancy.

Given the mistaken display of +3 rather than +4 is merely confusing on rare occasions when someone bothers to add up the values it's considered pretty low priority to fix in favour of more meaningful problems, but it's on the to-do list to be dealt with eventually!

Isn't the +3/+4 issue a simple fix?

OK, that's still doesn't makes sense to me. Just got +6 points, but my monthly total increased by 1?

It'd be simple to fix with a quick hack (just adding a +1 to the values), but a little more complex to resolve properly (actually resolving the cause of the problem).


It still shouldn't be a huge problem, but it may not be trivial either, and when we do get to it we'd like to fix it properly. :-)


//EDIT: The monthly value may be cached, Michael Tanczos would know more.

That's still doesn't explain the +1 vs +6 thing.

I mean, you clearly invested a lot of time and effort into this rep system, why not make it work correctly?

Sorry, you replied again while I was responding.

Michael implemented the rep system and I haven't seen the code, but I suspect that as a non-critical feature the monthly (and yearly) values may be cached to reduce load on the server; a lot of non-critical statistics around the site are cached.

Got it. Thanks.

Checking on it..