I mean... it can be more complicated than what you're saying. We have contractors and interns and because they're temporary, we may not give them the same markers for various reasons. I don't know whether that's the case here but... judging it as a failing on our part rather than by design seems a bit unkind.
They don't have 20,000 employees. Not everything needs automation. At best they have a checklist and manual steps. Needs some oversight, which the community provides. This is fine.
I tried to star this chat message https://chat.meta.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9022873#9022873 but the star immediately goes away and I get a message "It is too late to undo this operation". Staring other messages works fine.
Is there any point in asking users not to edit clearly off-topic content that's also clear enough for privileged users to recognize as off-topic and VTC/delete?
@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog I'm on holiday, will have a look once I'm back. It's not difficult, just a binary search in the Wayback Machine for serverfault.com
i'd be quite surprised if across all 35k answers there wasn't a single answer that happened to have a google cloud collective tag, but that's not impossible
also, that's a search on the google cloud collective tag, that tag has 0 total questions
It's far from foolproof, for example cutting the search to cast a wider net still says he doesn't answer recently; that doesn't prohibit an old answer from being upvoted, resulting in a recent gain.
Checking (only a couple) of the other users who did gain also doesn't show recent posts, so their gain must be from an older answer recently being upvoted; resulting in a gain in that category. --- It's safe to assume (without making a "Jon Skeet joke") that by some means his reputation changed (with so many posts available for people to hit); so overall it wouldn't be 0.
Click on 30 days and 12 months, to see small gains in that category.
One salient change: the network was previously defined as "a set of related Internet sites and other applications for questions and answers" but is now defined as "a set of related Internet sites and other applications for asynchronous collaboration and sharing knowledge".