Should posting on Meta affect reputation?
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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Just to put out the other option, which is the one I prefer:
No, votes on meta posts should not affect main site reputation.
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It seems like a good thing to reward useful contributions to Meta, but probably not as much as useful contributions to Q&A. I have mixed feelings about negative scores for downvotes, but bearing in mind the use of downvotes to express disagreement with good-faith proposals I'm inclined to remove them.
To have a concrete proposal for a starting point, I suggest:
- Meta question: up +2, down -0
- Meta answer: up +2, down -0
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