# Is there any forecast for Discourse to have reputation system?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-forecast-for-discourse-to-have-reputation-system/85505
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [4월 17, 2018, 7:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-forecast-for-discourse-to-have-reputation-system/85505 "2018-04-17T07:54:54Z")
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### Author:  [@Jonatan442](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonatan442)
#### Post date: [4월 17, 2018, 7:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-forecast-for-discourse-to-have-reputation-system/85505/1 "2018-04-17T07:54:54Z")
This is a very important function for question-and-answer systems and forums on various subjects.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [4월 17, 2018, 8:59오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-forecast-for-discourse-to-have-reputation-system/85505/2 "2018-04-17T08:59:39Z")
Hi Jonatan442 welcome to the forum
Discourse has [Badges](https://meta.discourse.org/badges) that are granted for various accomplishments and milestones. Does what you’re reffering to differ from them in some significant way?
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [4월 17, 2018, 9:03오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-forecast-for-discourse-to-have-reputation-system/85505/3 "2018-04-17T09:03:41Z")
Sounds more like the ‘reputation #’ you get on Stackexchange powered instances …
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### Author:  [@Jonatan442](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonatan442)
#### Post date: [4월 17, 2018, 9:19오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-forecast-for-discourse-to-have-reputation-system/85505/4 "2018-04-17T09:19:25Z")
Hello!
Yes, it’s quite different.
I refer to just that:
> **[What is reputation? How do I earn (and lose) it? - Help Center](https://stackoverflow.com/help/whats-reputation)**
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> Stack Overflow | The World’s Largest Online Community for Developers
or: [Yahoo Search - Web Search](https://answers.yahoo.com/info/scoring_system)
Users earn points by answering, asking, voting, receiving votes, having a answer chosen as the best and other achievements.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [4월 17, 2018, 9:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-forecast-for-discourse-to-have-reputation-system/85505/5 "2018-04-17T09:24:50Z")
Discourse is primarily forum software and I believe the core direction has not been to support rich Q&A style interaction.
However, that doesn’t mean it can’t be addressed in a plugin.
I believe this plugin is the state of the art for Q&A on Discourse.
To my knowledge it doesn’t add public reputation tracking (yet … ). You might want to ask the author about his plans:
> [@Question Answer Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032):
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> mega This plugin is now retired in favour of the official [Discourse Post Voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808) plugin Question Answer plugin that allows you to create topics in a similar QA style used by Stack Overflow. [page_facing_up Get the code](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-question-answer)[desktop_computer See an example](https://try.thepavilion.io/c/qa/)[raising_hand_woman Request a feature](https://thepavilion.io/w/feature-request)[bug Report a bug](https://thepavilion.io/w/bug-report)Of note memoUp-votes, but no down-votes (yet) The first post of the topic cannot be voted on (yet). Adding this would raise some …
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [4월 17, 2018, 10:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-forecast-for-discourse-to-have-reputation-system/85505/6 "2018-04-17T22:57:39Z")
The forecast is: Unlikely.
Discussion can be continued here if you feel like you have anything new of value to add:
> [@What is the reason to not use reputation points?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-reason-to-not-use-reputation-points/32961/3):
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> Can’t we just continue that discussion here? Can you elaborate please? Based on the anecdotal evidence of having participated in many such communities, I think reputation systems have a high tendency to create an involuntary “I’m better than you”-effect, similar in nature to the “IT’S OVER 9000!-post count”. Think the /r/thebutton experiment - a self-formed class society of “Greys” and “Reds” - without the “we’ll all laugh about this afterwards” roleplay factor. It’s borderline creepy somet…
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [4월 17, 2018, 10:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-forecast-for-discourse-to-have-reputation-system/85505/7 "2018-04-17T22:57:45Z")