Say hello to an un-documented side-effect of "**[rep recalc][1]**": We (as user) shouldn't know anything about this internal stuff, but it appears a reputation recalc cannot take into account votes from questions since then deleted... And a large "rep recalc" seems to be underway following some mishaps with a "bonus" to be set when [associating accounts][2]... As mentioned in my question, we do not care about all that: we just want the rep back. [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2251/will-we-get-back-rep-points-lost-after-a-rep-recalc [2]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/2508/account-association-between-websites