On Thu, 12 May 2011, Benson Margulies wrote:
I think that the problem of 'committer shows up as 'rep=1' is not a big
problem.
The existing moderation circus on SO seems to work reasonably well,
and it isn't tag-specific. If committers show up and answer questions,
they'll get upvotes, and eventually acquire privileges.
One possible workaround is for the committer to let other committers know
their SO user id, and everyone jumps on up voting their first answer.
"Comment Everywhere" @ 50 points is probably the main one that's needed,
as that lets you ask clarifying points before answering.
I can't predict how Atwood & crew would react to a proposed treat with
us.
Nor I, but we'd need to figure out what things matter to us and which
don't before we go asking :)
The non-tag-specific nature of moderation privileges is a fairly big
practical problem for any scheme to give Apache people ex-officio
reputation -- unless we went for the 'apache.stackoverflow.com /
stackoverflow.apache.com' separate site route.
The downside of that is loosing the existing community. Not sure how much
difference the moderation makes though?
Nick
