I'm not sure this is an actual bug, it's just that that graph isn't a very accurate representation of what your reputation was at a specific spot.
While we record exactly what second you did a reputation action, when graph the data, we have to approximate the times that things happen because there are too many data points for the extremely active users. We end up grouping by day and storing it separately.
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This means, when you look at the graph, there can be some odd spots to it. We're approximating things so that we can show you a pretty picture but to do it quickly there's some minor inaccuracies.
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This means, when you look at the graph, there can be some odd spots to it. We're approximating things so that we can show you a pretty picture but to do it quickly there's some tradeoffs.
What numbers we do really pay attention to are the "Reputation Breakdown"
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Those should always be an accurate representation of what we think your reputation should be.
Right now it looks like things are all correct. Your graph shows the correct rep, your sidebar show the correct total and the breakdown adds everything up.
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You're totally correct that the graph isn't always showing the correct values for the past 24 hours b/c we have to approximate things. I'd guess we might have a bug with timezones (its really, really hard to do right) and we don't always get yesterday's and today's reputation events quite merged, which causes some different numbers depending on what time you look at it.
On the plus side, we seem to be tracking and totally the reputation correctly outside of that graph. It's a bug but I'm pretty sure it's not actually changing anyone's reputation, it's just we aren't able to render the graph super accurately.
I'm not sure this is an actual bug, it's just that that graph isn't a very accurate representation of what your reputation was at a specific spot.
While we record exactly what second you did a reputation action, when graph the data, we have to approximate the times that things happen because there are too many data points for the extremely active users. We end up grouping by day and storing it separately.
This means, when you look at the graph, there can be some odd spots to it. We're approximating things so that we can show you a pretty picture but to do it quickly there's some minor inaccuracies.
What numbers we do really pay attention to are the "Reputation Breakdown"
[image|94216]
Those should always be an accurate representation of what we think your reputation should be.
Right now it looks like things are all correct. Your graph shows the correct rep, your sidebar show the correct total and the breakdown adds everything up.
[image|94217]
You're totally correct that the graph isn't always showing the correct values for the past 24 hours b/c we have to approximate things. I'd guess we might have a bug with timezones (its really, really hard to do right) and we don't always get yesterday's and today's reputation events quite merged, which causes some different numbers depending on what time you look at it.
On the plus side, we seem to be tracking and totally the reputation correctly outside of that graph. It's a bug but I'm pretty sure it's not actually changing anyone's reputation, it's just we aren't able to render the graph super accurately.
