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This is not an invitation for you to downvote everything I've posted. Just sayin' ;)
Challenge
Figure out how I can get myself back down to 1 reputation.
Details will follow input format, then followed by output.
Input
Input will consist of the my current reputation, the number of questions I have posted with an accepted answer (that is not my own), the number of questions I have posted without an accepted answer that have a valid answer that is not my own, and the number of answer downvotes that I have cast.
Details
Accepting an answer that is not my own gives me 2 rep. Unaccepting an answer takes away 2 rep from me. Undownvoting an answer gives me 1 rep (we assume that all of my answer votes are not locked in at the moment), and downvoting an answer makes me lose 1 rep (we assume there are enough answers on PPCG for me to not care about the number of answers that I can downvote). We also ignore potential serial vote reversal. Most of my reputation is going to have to be given away by bounties because I don't want to go around downvoting 5000 answers.
The challenge is to find the shortest way to get me back down to 1 rep using the shortest code. Please keep in mind that I need at least 125 rep to downvote and at least 75 rep to start a bounty. By "shortest way", I mean the way requiring the least actions, where each accept and downvote and their reverse actions and each bounty is a separate action. Note that it is impossible to award a bounty of more than +500 rep at once. Also note that you can only give out bounties in 50 rep increments.
If there is no way to get back down to 1 rep, then output some consistent error message. The error message may be output through crashing.
Output
Output the number of undownvotes, downvotes, accept-votes, unaccept-votes, and bounty actions I need to perform in any consistent order in any reasonable list format.
Test Cases
reputation, accepted_answers, no_accept_questions, answer_downvotes -> accepts, unaccepts, downvotes, undownvotes, bounties
101, 3, 2, 10 -> 0, 0, 0, 0, 1 // This one's easy, just give out a 100 rep bounty.
102, 3, 2, 10 -> 0, 1, 0, 1, 1 // Unaccept to get to 100, then undownvote to get to 101, then give a +100 bounty
103, 3, 2, 10 -> 0, 1, 0, 0, 1 // First unaccept one of those answers and then give out a 100 rep bounty or vice versa
3, 1, 0, 0 -> 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 // Unaccept that answer and lose the 2 rep
1000, 0, 1, 0 -> 1, 0, 1, 0, 2 // Accept an answer to get to 1002, then downvote an answer to get to 1001, then give out two +500 bounties
Rules
- Standard Loopholes Apply
- "Post a bunch of spam and get suspended" is not an answer, nor is anything similar
In the case of a tie between shortest methods, output one possible shortest method
This is code-golf, so the shortest code in bytes wins!
Can we assume you have arbitrarily many questions answered by other people? If so, all reputation counts can lead to 1: bounty down to below 152 rep if you're above that, accept answers until you're on 151 or 152 rep, downvote one answer to reach 151 if necessary, then do a 150 point bounty. Of course, there may well be shorter paths. – None – 2017-06-11T06:08:05.900
@ais523 part of the input contains the number of questions with accepted answers and without accepted answers, so no. – HyperNeutrino – 2017-06-11T06:12:39.153
@user202729 Ah yes, good catch, my bad. Thanks! – HyperNeutrino – 2017-06-11T06:16:31.723
11.Avocad 1.52.??? 2.Profit! – Matthew Roh – 2017-06-11T06:40:14.520
Aw, you already covered the 0 byte solution of getting yourself suspended! – Shaggy – 2017-06-11T09:19:29.530
@Shaggy One step ahead of y'all! ;) – HyperNeutrino – 2017-06-11T13:32:05.503
@user202729 Ohhh right. Nice. Thanks! – HyperNeutrino – 2017-06-11T18:19:48.673