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We can now support changing the reputation values for papers, if this is what the EE community would like.

Here's how it would work. We can't currently vary properties of post types per category, like saying that Article posts in Papers grant higher rep but that Article posts in a hypothetical blog category grant normal rep.  But we can create a new post type and use it in the Papers category. 

If you decide to do this, we would convert the existing posts. Otherwise the category would have to support both post types, and that would be confusing for people when posting. This would mean that people who've gained (or lost) reputation through papers would see their reps change.  (Based on a quick scan of current papers, everyone's rep will go up.)

If the community would like a Paper post type, let us know and we can create it for you.  You can specify the rep values for upvotes and downvotes.