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9 years ago From zildjoh...@gmail.com on January 18, 2013 10:49:22
This is going to need two additions to the site UI - one for admins to access the reward page, and one for users to view recent rewards. The admin link can probably be added as a button in the sidebar near preferences/logout/etc. I can't think of a great place for the user-side link though, any ideas? If there's no good place for a link, it could also be put in the sidebar and be directly viewable on all pages, as recent posts and upcoming meetups are.
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From wjmo...@gmail.com on January 18, 2013 14:11:03
From Luke:
New feature that would allow us to incentivize tasks (e.g. proofreading The Sequences ebook) with LW karma.
My best guess is that the easiest way to do this is to set it up so that admins can manually add chunks of karma to a user account, but when doing so they must specify a reason, and as a matter of policy that reason must always be "This user performed task X, which was previously assigned a value of Y karma points."
Our first use-case for this would be to set up proofreading the sequences as a volunteer project at SingularityVolunteers.org. We'd promise people 100 karma for every 5 hours of work on the project, and we'd have volunteer coordinators checking to see whether people's claims of work roughly match with the output. Then a particular LW admin would give the karma rewards once per month, or something like that.
Karma rewards for tasks should be listed publicly, I think, to address concerns that it will be abused by admins. There should probably be a single page where anyone can view all the latest karma rewards given. Users receiving karma rewards should also be notified via their inbox.
As always, your feedback on how best to implement the feature is most welcome.
Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/lesswrong/issues/detail?id=367