This is weird indeed:
You already stated that you are not aware of any deleted posts of yours, which is the primary reason for such reputation losses.
We already covered the conversion of the
dev-tip
dev-tip
posts into Community Wiki posts in Matts answer:The original author keeps the reputation gained (or lost) before their post entered community mode (see What are “Community Wiki” posts?, question How do Community Wiki posts work?).
I just reassured that me working through your nice QuickStart documentation seriesdocumentation series of Soapi.JS2Soapi.JS2 and voting on each of the posts respectively for +8 there (plus maybe another vote on that day) has not been considered vote fraud, which is another major reason for such reputation losses (see What are the mechanics of vote fraud handling?):
I can still see all my votes, hence they have not been considered fraudulent and removed.
I still wouldn't be too surprised to find some other earlier votes of mine reverted, as I've been tracking your activities pretty closely and, given your impressive pace, may have exhibited 'suspicious' voting patterns, for example by voting too fast on several posts (I regularly trigger the posting captcha and other UI throttles ;)
- However, according to Diagos answer this should have been detected within a 24 hour time frame back then already, hence would only be possible, if the scripts are run differently over here, which is doubtful.
So this might only be resolvable by moderator analysis, though Diagos answer again seems to indicate that this might not even be (easily) possible; at least I've seen such analysis before, maybe there are some inside paths available to someone in charge still.
Looks like one should regularly persist the reputation audit at least to allow for diffing and eventually encircling such cases later on ;)