My thoughts about ‘reputation’ or ‘karma’

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

@mcwumbly

What would the ideal human-awarded badge system would look like?

I laid out one such system 3 years ago:

Plugin: Smart badge nominations based on Flags

Continuing the discussion from What is the most awesome plugin for Discourse, that does not yet exist?: I would like to see a nomination plugin for badges, which could easily be extended to encompass Trust Level 3/4 nominations as well. The nominations system could piggyback the Flags system, except of course if a user racks up a bunch of nominations, that’s A Good Thing. And the nomination button would live somewhere like the profile pop-up rather than in the flags menu. The “smart” aspect o…

Feel free to continue that discussion there.