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Hide the reputation of requester and posters in feature-request tagged posts, to add more guaranties of balanced advice
The more I look at Stack Exchange Meta or Stack Overflow Meta, the more I see the effects of the requester's reputation (and posters' ones) on them.
Do you have a lot of gold medals and reputation? ...
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Increase the reputation gained from question upvotes on Meta Stack Exchange to 10
Yes, I'm aware of discussions, leaks, etc. that have gone on recently regarding potential plans from SE to implement this network-wide. However, for the sake of this post, let's ignore those, and ...
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Allow staff members to opt out of reputation
Related: How do downvoted questions/announcements affect staff/moderators?
I have wanted to post something like this at least since I saw a staff member drop all the way to one reputation on the ...
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Change rep required to downvote on MSE
To make your opinion known on MSE you need both up and downvotes. Given at the moment you need 125 rep to downvote on this site, the voting patterns will be skewed positive because not everyone is ...
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Grant MSO privileges based on SO reputation [duplicate]
I am fairly active on Stack Overflow in terms on tidying up. If I see small typos, incorrect tags, extraneous salutations and valedictions, I clean them up. As I started to pursue MSO a bit more to ...
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Inform lower rep users more explicitly about downvote meaning on meta [duplicate]
OK so I have seen the following before writing this post:
Meaning of downvotes in Meta vs Main sites?
Change the meaning of downvotes on meta, or make it more apparent to new users that they mean ...
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On Meta Stack Overflow, the association bonus should count towards the rep requirement for protected questions
The association bonus is ignored by design for the 10 reputation requirement to answer a protected question.
Since Meta Stack Overflow is the only meta with separate reputation (correct me if I'm ...
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The reputation system on Meta Stack Overflow is somewhat weird to understand
After spending some time on Meta Stack Overflow, I realized the voting system here is completely different. The votes are used for agreement or disagreement toward the question/request and the answer ...
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Does it make sense to have a negative rep cap for Meta posts?
I've been thinking (and posting) a lot about voting and one issue that's come up over and over is the chilling effect that downvoting can have on Meta discussions and feature-requests.
Downvoting is ...
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Meta's logic is different to SO, so should reputation work differently?
Just an example:
When we talk about SO, I agree with the reasons stated here to explain why question upvotes grant only +5 rep instead of +10, but Meta is different:
1.- Answers have more intrinsic ...
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FAQ is inconsistent in explaining MSO reputation
The FAQ is inconsistent:
What is reputation? states:
The primary way to gain reputation is by posting good questions and useful answers. Your peers will vote on your posts, and those votes will ...
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If voting means 'I agree/disagree' on Meta, it shouldn't affect reputation [closed]
As it's been made clear that voting on Meta basically means 'I agree/disagree with your proposal' and has no bearing on the quality of the proposal, it shouldn't have even a small affect on reputation....
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MSO is a forum. Its reputation system should reflect that
Yesterday, reputation on questions was changed for consistency's sake:
We amended question rep on meta so it is in line with the rest of the sites. So now, upvotes on questions are worth 5 points.
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Please set user privileges on Meta Stack Exchange based on combined reputation across sites
Meta Stack Exchange (formerly Meta Stack Overflow) is really the “National Capital”, as mentioned in this bit from the New Per-Site Metas blog post:
Meta Stack Overflow will serve as the “National ...
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Meta Stack Exchange should not penalize downvotes
Voting on Meta sites generally express agreement and disagreement with a proposal, unlike on the Q&A sites where they indicate useful/good vs. non-useful/bad content.
It seems to me that a down-...
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