Accepting a previously unaccepted answer should not grant additional karma to author
I noticed while reviewing my karma change log on my hosted site that I gained too much reputation from a particular sequence of events:
My answer to the question Notarizing and Apostilling US Documents was accepted as the best answer, then unaccepted (probably because the question owner accidentally double-clicked), and then re-accepted.
The end result is that I received 25 reputation from my post, when I should only have received 15 (re-accepting the answer should have canceled out the unaccept penalty, not re-applied the accept bonus).
I worked around the issue for now by setting the unaccept penalty from -5 to -15.
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