@AnnZenat1YearAnniversary yes users with 100 rep can make the room become "Gallery", which means only room owners or users with explicit write access can post messages. RO can give explicit write access to users, and users who can't post messages can request access which send notification to all room owners. (I think, not 100% sure it's inbox notification, but the requests can be seen somewhere.)
@AnnZenat1YearAnniversary As far as I'm concerned, as long as the privilege thresholds stay the same, the value also is the same.
Because that's really the only thing you can 'buy' with reputation points.
There isn't really a value otherwise.
I mean, supposedly their value is 'to show others that you're capable of writing valuable contributions', but as a mod I can tell you that's a nice idealistic goal but not how it works in reality: Some people have > 1000 reputation just from 1 answer, others definitely have quantity over quality, or got lucky on HNQ.
@Tinkeringbell You mean buying a spot in the bounties tab? But if more and more users place bounties in the future, placing bounties would get less and less effective, no?
@AnnZenat1YearAnniversary More thinking of things like real-life 'reward programs'. For example, each package of coffee here comes with '40 points' that you can save, and if you have enough you can trade them in for coffee cups, coffee machines, etc. Reputation points aren't really like that.
But you're right, you can 'buy' some spotlight for your question by adding a bounty. I don't know if those prices have 'inflated' over the years (as in: no one bothers with 50 rep bounties anymore), that's actually a fun question. Maybe rene can SEDE something together :P
