What is meta? ×  I clicked the "Trigger Reputation Recalc"
button on my http://stackoverflow.com/reputation page. My rep
went down by ~236 points.  Why did my rep go down? Is it because
I recieved upvotes for answers that were later deleted (say,
because the question I answered was deleted)? Is this the same
thing that would happen during a site-wide rep recalc? I'm just
curious (and tired, so I probably missed the entry in the manual
about this feature).  share|improve this question I think the
system hates users and wants to punish them for clicking too
many buttons. –  tvanfosson Jan 13 '11 at 23:06 @tvan: sounds
reasonable enough to me :) –  Matt Ball Jan 13 '11 at 23:07
@Matt - it's only a theory but all the evidence seems to support
it. All this talk about deleted questions and votes is likely
just a conspiracy to protect the system from retaliation. – 
tvanfosson Jan 13 '11 at 23:09 Bet you don't do that again. – 
Lance Roberts Jan 13 '11 at 23:17 @Lance: well, just to prove
you wrong: I just did it ag