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  • If you click "Profile & Activity" between Home and Sign out at the top of your screen, you will see your profile. On the right you'll see something like this (this is what mine says, yours may be different.) When you rate something, it's worth: Answers Questions Helpful Rating +3 +2 Not Helpful Rating -2 -2 This is how you give points, You cannot give just one or two. You give all the points that you can give. Answers get more points than questions.
  • Spindizy is correct, but I also think sometimes it is because another person is rating and it seems to go up or down realtime. So, if you rate someone +3 and another person is at the same time rating them -1, the answer will show +2. Just a theory.
  • You private profile, in the section "my ratings", contains the amount of points that you can give (or take) on questions and answers. Those amounts could be different. Those values are small for beginners, and grow progressively with growing levels. The maximum is reached at level 43 (Sage). It is then: "ans ques Helpful Rating +6 +5 Not Helpful Rating -5 -5" Consider also that if you are taking some time to evaluate a question or answer, in the moment where you give your rating, other user's ratings on the same question or answer, which were given in the meantime, could also be considered.

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