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If you think this is the sort of answer that Stack Overflow should strive for, note that the author edited it too many times and it fell into "Community Wiki" s
by bmm6o 14y ago
If you think this is the sort of answer that Stack Overflow should strive for, note that the author edited it too many times and it fell into "Community Wiki" status. Until this was reverted in a manual process, the author didn't receive any points for his answer.
- sathyabhat 14y agoWell, not entirely. Reverting the CW restores the rep, subject to daily rep limit. The answer's been given 3 separate bounties (100, 100,50) which are not affected by CW.
- bmm6o 14y ago1) It still required manual intervention from a moderator. 2) I'm certainly not an expert on how SE distributes its points, but the moderator comment in the related meta post (http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/3527/remove-cw-status-for-this-answer-hashing-algorithms-testing-by-ian-boyd http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/3527/rem...) states "I don't think there is a way to refund the reputation the answer gained while it was CW [...]"
- dclowd9901 14y agoCommunity Wiki is immortality.