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• Editing posts requires 1000 reputation; on a launched site it's 2000 reputation
• Closing questions requires 500 reputation; on a launched site it's 3000 reputation
• Moderation tools (commonly called "10k tools" on launched sites, for reasons that will be obvious in a moment) like deleting questions and viewing spam/offensive flags requires only 2000 reputation; on a launched site it's 10000

• Editing posts requires 1000 reputation; on a launched site it's 2000 reputation
• Closing questions requires 500 reputation; on a launched site it's 3000 reputation
• Moderation tools (commonly called "10k tools" on launched sites, for reasons that will be obvious in a moment) like deleting questions and viewing spam/offensive flags requires only 2000 reputation; on a launched site it's 10000

As of 10 Nov, the sites ready to launch were TeX, English Language and Usage, and Personal Finance and Money, and TeX actually did launch about six hours ago.

As of 10 Nov, the sites ready to launch were TeX, English Language and Usage, and Personal Finance and Money, and TeX actually did launch about six hours ago.

As Robert (the community coordinator) said in the blog post:

Users who haven't been on a launched SE site before may not realize that we're currently operating with greatly lowered reputation requirements. Most relevant to this post:

• Editing posts requires 1000 reputation; on a launched site it's 2000 reputation
• Closing questions requires 500 reputation; on a launched site it's 3000 reputation
• Moderation tools (commonly called "10k tools" on launched sites, for reasons that will be obvious in a moment) like deleting questions and viewing spam/offensive flags requires only 2000 reputation; on a launched site it's 10000

We discussed beta launches at the network meeting this week. Jin (the SE designer) can design about 1-1.5 sites per week, so they can't really launch faster than that. We're told this is the current way site launches are ordered, in order of decreasing importance:

• They affect the hot, week, and month tabs on the homepage
• They affect the hot and votes tabs on the questions page
• They affect the votes tab for an individual tag
• Highly upvoted questions are featured in house ads on other SE sites
• Posts with -2 or less score are hidden from the homepage
• The top (and bottom) 15 show up in the 10k tools

• They affect the ordering of answers on a question (by default it's accepted answer followed by descending answer score)
• They affect the unanswered page -- questions are considered "answered" when they have at least one upvoted answer

There's a good post on the Web Applications meta about when you should up/downvote. We each get 30 votes/day, which is almost exactly the number of posts/day we average, so running out isn't a big concern. As an added bonus, there are quite a few badges associated both with voting and receiving votes

As Robert (the community coordinator) said in the blog post:

Users who haven't been on a launched SE site before may not realize that we're currently operating with greatly lowered reputation requirements. Most relevant to this post:

• Editing posts requires 1000 reputation; on a launched site it's 2000 reputation
• Closing questions requires 500 reputation; on a launched site it's 3000 reputation
• Moderation tools (commonly called "10k tools" on launched sites, for reasons that will be obvious in a moment) like deleting questions and viewing spam/offensive flags requires only 2000 reputation; on a launched site it's 10000

We discussed beta launches at the network meeting this week. Jin (the SE designer) can design about 1-1.5 sites per week, so they can't really launch faster than that. We're told this is the current way site launches are ordered, in order of decreasing importance:

• They affect the hot, week, and month tabs on the homepage
• They affect the hot and votes tabs on the questions page
• They affect the votes tab for an individual tag
• Highly upvoted questions are featured in house ads on other SE sites
• Posts with -2 or less score are hidden from the homepage
• The top (and bottom) 15 show up in the 10k tools

• They affect the ordering of answers on a question (by default it's accepted answer followed by descending answer score)
• They affect the unanswered page -- questions are considered "answered" when they have at least one upvoted answer

There's a good post on the Web Applications meta about when you should up/downvote. We each get 30 votes/day, which is almost exactly the number of posts/day we average, so running out isn't a big concern. As an added bonus, there are quite a few badges associated both with voting and receiving votes