Wedge

See, Pete? I told you we DO have features that make people go HOLY SHIT... :P

A couple of weeks ago, I was looking into XF's trophy system, and tried to think of something for Wedge too, that would look a bit like it, but also be an indicator of someone's implication on a forum...

So, I started devising (additive) points attributed by post (1), thought (0.5), per direct post/thought reply (since we have this in the database) (0.5), likes (depending on what it being liked, I couldn't make up my mind), topic (I think I settled on 0.2 per reply to it), but then I decided awarding points to replies might encourage trolling.

Anyway, I couldn't settle on other things like points awarded for gallery albums and items, topic and profile views (minus bot visits), and more place-specific areas like uploading a plugin or theme here, or being marked as the one who successfully replied to a topic[1]

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That one is actually interesting; I forgot to mention that earlier, sorry. I mean, when I click "Mark as solved", it always says I marked it as solved, but I'd like to be able to mark someone else as the solver, so maybe we should have an "Accept answer" option per-post in solvable topics, so that we can properly 'thank' the one who actually solve your problem... Hey, why not..?

, so I just skipped to something else that needed my attention, so it's funny to see a discussion about something similar, but I don't really think it can be done, without at least giving the admin the ability to change the attributable points per item, and that's where it becomes complicated I guess. Ultimately, I wanted to see if we couldn't replace post-based groups with points-based groups, that is, awarding shy people for still being part of the community. But then, what prevents you from just Liking every single post in the forum..? A ban threat, maybe....? :lol:

Anyway, that's where I was at that point, and I couldn't decide, so I think I added it somewhere in my to-do list, and you know the story about my to-do list... It grows about 5 times faster than it shrinks, so it's never ending.

I hear ya Nao. But same thing with posts. What prevents you from posting replies to every single post in the forum to get your post count up? A ban threat maybe? :)

I guess it's that damn post count number. This person has 1,234 posts, that person has 456 posts, another has 2310 posts. After a certain amount, say ten or 100, do we need such an exact number to display? The exact number is almost meaningless as far as most members are concerned. Isn't it all relative at some point ... Oh maybe I got an idea ...[2] I'll get back this evening. :)

2.	I know, you thought you smelled smoke

Personally I find all the Like/Reputation/Karma etc. systems I know more harmful than beneficial in long term. For example the 'Like' system used here. It works here because the forum is still small and the average active member level (as knowledge, attitude ect.) is way above the usual forum averages. But on most other forums such system after some time will induce an elitism - a group of popular members which get Likes even if they post "+1".

Meanwhile most new members will not get a Like even if they post a scheme for working portable cold fusion reactor :). That is, most new members will feel unappreciated and will not post often or leave the forum. IMHO!

Now, maybe if there was a system which rewards those members whose topics/post induces traffic from search engines and/or from backlinks... maybe I would be interested in such function, or at least I would give it a try.

P. S. Excuse my (self learned :-/) English