You asked for new question and answer post types that don't give rep (doable), and also that don't affect the stats on the user card (posts/votes/etc). I don't know if we can currently decouple the latter; will ask. Possible alternative: once you've resolved the rules questions and compiled the results into help topics, do you still need the original posts? Do you want the public record, or would deleting the posts at that point be ok? Just asking about options; not saying we should do it.

Monica Cellio‭ Hmm, I would prefer to keep the posts, not only for the public record, but also for new guidelines to be added over time if needed with new answers to the post. (Also, I think affecting posts on the user card is ok, since it would be a contribution to the community, but vote count should not as stated in the original post)

Thanks. Public record is important so that was my guess, but just in case the answer was "eh, don't really care after we've assembled the help", I figured I should ask. I'll talk with the team and see what we can do. (The user card is customizable, by the way, so a brute-force approach is to not show that stat -- but it's global to the community, so not ideal.)

@Monica Cellio Isn't the issue here rather that the various metas shouldn't count rep of the main site. The posts proposed here would sit on meta. Other than that, I don't have any problem personally with giving a lot of rep to someone who makes the effort to draft up these rules in detail per language.

Lundin‭ if the community wants to generalize this to "no rep on meta" we can do that. Some communities want to reward "community maintenance" meta activity with rep, so we didn't bake in a blanket "no rep" rule. But this is something we should bring up at the start of new communities so they can decide rather than just not thinking about it, and I'll try to remember to do that going forward.

Lundin‭ I agree that people should be rewarded for contributing to the community, but the problem with answers to these posts, as stated in the question, is that sometimes people can post things that are made to be downvoted to show what the community does not agree with, which would negatively impact someone’s scores.

Quintec‭ should meta posts in general not cost rep for downvotes? Or just this new tag?

Monica Cellio‭ I think the most sensible implementation would be that each community can decide which categories that should use rep or not. Meta being one (perhaps set to no rep by default?), another example is sandbox categories like here on Code Golf.

Monica Cellio‭ Hm, not sure, I know for sure this new tag should not, but all meta posts in general - that is probably something that deserves a separate post for discussion (I would lean towards no, meta posts should continue giving rep as normal)