1) 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 re

1) 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 [...]"