armadillica / dillo

Free and open web platform created to support crowd-driven content.
https://dillo.space
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Make the karma system give you tools for interacting with the community #250

Open L0Lock opened 11 months ago

L0Lock commented 11 months ago

I've been thinking for a long time about putting the Karma system in practical use and make it a tool to earn privileges, similar to some other platforms like Reddit, Steam, and especially Stack Overflow (see their classic privileges tree).
The point isn't to make a race for the shiny medals (even though we can't avoid it), but the main idea is to create an environment where doing more for the community rewards you with tools to do even more. Kind of gamifying the community, you start at level one, you have to learn how to do things, you unlock abilities and traits as you go that allow you to do more things or the same things but faster.


The effects are many:


In practice, we could think of multiple things (from low to high karma):