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Privileges are abilities you earn with increased reputation to do and see more on the site. Use this tag for questions about privilege levels and privilege notifications.

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How do I get 20 reputation on this web site so I can chat?
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I’m trying to understand the reasoning behind Stack Overflow’s decision to base close-vote privileges on global reputation. In my experience, some Android-specific questions have been closed by users ...
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There is apparently a new privilege for upvoting comments on every site. Now distinct from the privilege to upvote posts. No doubt this is related to Stack Overflow Experiment: Safely expanding voting ...
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I got a notification that I earned the "vote up privilege". I think it's a bug since I'm have 60k+ rep on that site. More examples.
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On Arqade, a user asked about the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4. I replaced the existing [tony-hawks-pro-skater] tag with [tony-hawks-pro-skater-3+4]. Later, the OP (who has <300 rep) ...
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If you have less than 15 reputation and try to use the upvote button, you'll see a dialog titled "Hang on, you can't upvote just yet." with some handy information. There's a link "What'...
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This feature-request is posted in light of thoughts I've been having about ways to make chat more open to people, which I think will make room for people who are looking for the kind of avenue for ...
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On the site analytics pages for Stack Overflow and Arqade (requires 25,000 reputation), when I hover my mouse over a data point on the graph, the popup with the number for that day gets positioned ...
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Combating profile spam is one of those whack-a-mole kinda tasks. Accounts are (too?) easy to make and spam be added to them. As explained here they are not that easy to detect from within SE, but they ...
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Rep doesn't come back immediately after a suspension ends. Example (rep=1 on meta but suspension ended already):
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On smaller sites, it's relatively easy for trolls to do the following things before anyone notices: create a sock puppet account or four, post some bogus questions and answers, accept the answers, ...
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There seems to be a difference in how established vs. new users are treated on certain SE sites; for instance while doing any of these: Downvoting and undoing edits; only to put the same edits in ...
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If you have 125 rep and downvote a question that you had upvoted the upvote is removed and a downvote is added. If you don't have 125 rep and downvote a question that you had upvoted then you get a ...
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If you don't have the necessary reputation to downvote something on a given site, it'll say: Thanks for the feedback! You need at least 125 reputation to cast a vote, but your feedback has been ...
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Currently, the only way to unilaterally edit posts is to have 2,000 rep (1,000 on beta sites). Many users, for one reason or another, have experience editing but don't post very often, and hence take ...
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