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Should posting on Meta affect reputation?

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When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorry.

Do you want us to change posts on Meta to not award rep for upvotes or subtract it for downvotes? This change would be retroactive, though not immediately -- the next time a certain custodial script runs, reputation levels would be adjusted to remove rep gained from Meta.

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Peter Taylor‭ wrote 10 months ago

I assume that the values are integers. What are the default values and the supported bounds?

Monica Cellio‭ wrote 10 months ago

The values are integers. For each post type, for each of upvote and downvote, we can set a number. Current values are:

  • Question: up +5, down -2
  • Answer: up +10, down -2

These were the defaults before we allowed customization. More recently, setting up a new category includes assigning values explicitly; there's no default.

I'm not sure if there are bounds beyond whatever Ruby's equivalent of MAXINT is. I'll have to ask.