Reputation for pictures

[dlavery]

Just a thought - why do you want to give reputation points to the person that happens to post a picture of a robot on CD?

Isn't the robot the result of the efforts of the entire team? If rep points are going to be handed out to a team for sharing their efforts with the CD community, shouldn't they go to the entire TEAM, and not just the first person to dash off a photo to the gallery?

I can actually see situations where the suggested approach will cause intra-team strife. Let's say the team has decided that they don't want to unveil their creation until the competition event. But one person on the team happened to miss the meeting where this decision was made, and is tempted by the potenital to pick up some extra reputation points. He posts a picture, gains rep points for the work done by the whole team, and is then lambasted by the rest of his team for the post.

I can also see situations where team members end up racing each other to post first on CD, and get thier pictures up first, to get the rep points. And since there is no penalty for crappy photographs with little or no detail, the temptation will be to post the first picutre and not necessaryily the BEST picture. The implicit message will be "photos first, quality later." This will also have the potential for causing problems within a team.

Is this really what we want?

-dave