Yes, stack​‌**apps** is different from any other StackExchange site in a variety of ways:

 1. Most **"Questions"** are meant to be **announcement / product pages** for scripts, apps, and libraries.  
  To this end, note:

   1. **Stack Apps has special tags**: [tag:app], [tag:script], and [tag:library] to facilitate posting tools that use the API and/or enhance Stack Exchange sites.  
      These posts *look* like questions but **they are not questions**.  In fact you will also see [support requests, bug reports, etc. posted as "answers"][1] -- without getting flagged or downvoted.

   2. Questions accept and use **Magic formats**. See ["How to list your application/library/wrapper/script here"][2].
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 2. Tools have **Special listings**, unlike any other site.  For example, see [the script listing page][6].  Note that many scripts have thumbnails and, often, custom blurbs:  
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  ![Listing page][7]][8]
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 4. [*Stack Apps* is **its own meta site**][9].

 1. [The main page][10] **lists "Top Apps"**, not "Top Questions".  
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  ![Main page is different][11]][12]

 1. There have been [other **reputation exceptions** for Stack Apps][13].

 1. Since "payload" questions aren't questions here, [**the Community Wiki switchover is relaxed**][14].

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In a nutshell:
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 1. Here at Stack Apps, **the main purpose is to post solutions** for, or using, Stack Exchange sites.  

 2. For coding ease, the question/answer format of other SE sites was shoehorned for this purpose, but "questions" properly tagged as [tag:app], [tag:script], or [tag:library] are not questions, they are answers and tools for public use.  They deserve their full 10 points per vote.

  **[The Reputation help page][15] should be fixed, for Stack Apps.**

 3. The other questions on this site (that aren't announcing apps) theoretically should only get 5 points.  But this is, no-doubt, not worth the trouble to try and code.


  [1]: http://stackapps.com/a/2005/7653
  [2]: http://stackapps.com/q/7/7653
  [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/Qgrhl.gif
  [4]: https://i.sstatic.net/icb1l.gif
  [5]: https://i.sstatic.net/UhHOV.gif
  [6]: http://stackapps.com/questions/tagged/script?sort=votes&pageSize=50
  [7]: https://i.sstatic.net/OyaJqm.gif "Click for larger image."
  [8]: https://i.sstatic.net/OyaJq.gif "Click for larger image."
  [9]: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/60099/148310
  [10]: http://stackapps.com/
  [11]: https://i.sstatic.net/rRNupm.gif "Click for larger image."
  [12]: https://i.sstatic.net/rRNup.gif "Click for larger image."
  [13]: http://stackapps.com/q/31/7653
  [14]: http://stackapps.com/q/221/7653
  [15]: http://stackapps.com/help/whats-reputation