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Should sandbox posts give rep?

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Should sandbox posts give rep? On one hand, keeping this feature motivates more people to use the sandbox. On the other hand, allowing people to gain rep twice for the same content seems wrong in some way. What does everyone think?

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Update: we can do this more easily now. We can change the reputation grants per post type per category, both up and down, without creating a new post type. Sandbox posts would continue to use the Article post type, but would now grant whatever numbers y'all tell us to plug in.

Reputation from existing posts would be recalculated to use the new values (possibly after a delay). This will affect people with existing sandbox posts; I haven't looked to see who has a lot of sandbox posts, but the maximum upvotes right now on any single one is three, so with luck this wouldn't be too disruptive.

Please discuss and let us know what you'd like to do when you're ready. I'm happy to answer questions.

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Resolution: at the request of a moderator based on discussion and voting here, I've just pushed this button:

Sandbox rep: up 0, down 0

As noted earlier, when the next reputation recalculation runs, people with existing sandbox posts will see their reps change.

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Lundin‭ wrote over 3 years ago

"We can't currently vary properties of post types per category" This is strange though. The various metas shouldn't give rep IMO and that's a much bigger issue than the sandbox category on some sites.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 3 years ago

@Lundin "currently". This is on our radar, but it's complicated. In the meantime we can at least do this. If a community really wants a rep-less meta we can support that the same way. I suspect that attitudes toward that vary by community.