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A vote in the meta category for the EE site reflected in my reputation. Is that a bug?
We've got a category for meta posts on the electrical engineering (EE) vsite. I've noticed that votes on my posts in the meta reflect in my reputation on the EE site. The votes on a local meta-EE shouldn't reflect on the reputation on EE. This looks like a bug (or a lack of feature), or a missing configuration.
Reputation should reflect what somebody knows about the subject matter of the site. If the upvotes in a meta count towards subject matter reputation, then it becomes easy to abuse the meta. If somebody wants cheap reputation, one can say something very popular along the lines of “free bread and circuses”, or just tell a joke, and get upvotes. But that doesn’t reflect his expertise in the subject matter, or his willingness to write quality Q&A. Meta shouldn't count towards reputation. The Old Republic SE got that one right.
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Thread: Outdated "reputation won't be around much longer" written two years ago but still is around |
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| Nick Alexeev | (no comment) | Jan 13, 2024 at 16:34 |
All categories are treated equally; voting in any category affects reputation.
This is different to how it works on Stack Exchange, but that's just one of those differences - neither approach is necessarily the One True Way, this is just the one we've picked to go down.
Reputation won't be around for too much longer in any case, so this won't be an issue much longer.
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