"So how come my reputation total still goes up?"

It doesn't. Your experience points increase, for logging in and casting votes. This has been explained to you several times, but hey, you've only been here for 11 years, and having things repeatedly explained, proven and demonstrated to you has had zero impact. Your reputation as someone who for the most part gives awful and more often than not incorrect advice grows.

The Role of XP in PerlMonks:"Finally, enlightenment happens. Experience points are only a detail, an epiphenomenon. Your true love is the PerlMonks community itself. The community is the universal element that forms the foundation for PerlMonks, that allows XP to even exist. From that point on, XP is no longer important; it just is. Living a good life means helping people, not accumulating XP. Some saints, knowing enlightenment, have been known to eschew XP altogether. Others are sanguine about the XP system, knowing that it got them this far, so it must be OK. Don't mistake quiet satisfaction for inertia or narrow-minded conservatism.".

Today, CGI applications do work, nearly as efficiently as those constructed using a framework, probably because memory can be so damned big that nothing ever actually gets unloaded

This would be an enormous security vulnerability, if true. (It's not true.)

much of the logic now runs on the client side, in JavaScript or Silverlight

Hasn't Silverlight been deprecated for at least 5 years now? C'mon....

"It's not true."

However this doesn't stop the user in question from reposting such things, and generally ignoring anyone who calls them out on such claims, remember Re^4: RFC: pragma pragmatic, among others....

So how come my reputation total still goes up?

However ... be warned that on 1st April 2018 you had 16,412 experience points, while today you are down to just 16,357, a loss of 55. So, if you don't lift your game, you'll be down to zero in a mere sixty two years. Let that be a warning to you.

Update: July 4 2018: 16,298 xp. Aug 1 2018: 16,207 xp.

Update: July 12 2020: 16,166 xp.

Update: December 12 2020: 16,180 xp. (posted 4 nodes since July 12 with rep: -11, -13, -15, -11). XP increase of 14, despite sum of posted nodes being -50 ... so he must be logging in and upvoting nodes to get XP?

Update: October 7 2021: 16,173 xp. From 4669 posts. (posted 11 nodes since December 12 2020 all with negative rep)

See also: Re^2: PM Leveling Guide.

Surprising myself, I upvoted you twice this week. Wasn't for anything you've written lately though.

You don't seem to understand the most basic technical points of webwork; even HTTP and CGI elude you. You've just about worn me out but I'll correct one more and then consider just creating an index to link in replies as a sign post for the unaware.

Today, CGI applications do work, nearly as efficiently as those constructed using a framework, probably because memory can be so damned big that nothing ever actually gets unloaded.

CGI is an execute on demand technology. They always get unloaded. That can never remotely approach the performance of a persistent application in Perl.