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This has probably been discussed before but I couldn't find any posts about it. I think we should re-make the sandbox category in the following way: Votes in the sandbox category should not c...
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Category migration and the sandbox
This has probably been discussed before but I couldn't find any posts about it. I think we should re-make the sandbox category in the following way: - Votes in the sandbox category should not count towards user reputation. If users get intimidated to post sandbox proposals fearing down-votes, then that is bad for creativity. There should be no negative consequences for posting an on-topic post in the sandbox. - It would be nice if there was some means for the author of the question (and them alone) to migrate a post from the Sandbox category to the main Challenges category. Migration needs to discard all comments but otherwise the post should be copied as-is. - During "category migration" votes should probably be reset. If someone is posting an interesting proposal and then later publish it as a challenge, they do deserve the up-votes gained from the proposal. But in order to get rid of any down-votes, the easiest and fairest way would be to just reset the vote score. Hopefully those who up-voted the proposal will also visit and up-vote the live challenge. A way for users to move posts between certain categories without moderator assistance seems like something that could be useful for other sites in the network too. There is for example a Worldbuilding site proposal which would benefit from having the very same sandbox mechanism as described here.