# Points based currency to reward quality

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**Created:** [November 28, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/points-based-currency-to-reward-quality/286786 "2023-11-28T01:08:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saif-Shines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/saif-shines/32/233837_2.png) [@Saif-Shines](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Saif-Shines)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/points-based-currency-to-reward-quality/286786/1 "2023-11-28T01:08:44Z")

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I came across the following blog post where the author is actually talks about social media networks today. While at it, I wondered the problem might be very much relevant to communities as well.

> **[The Ideal Social Network](https://www.zaxis.page/p/social-network)**
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> Let's build a new social platform from scratch

In summary, users are given 1000 points (label the currency as you wish) when they join and they get to see feed:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/a/7/0a7904e3140508cf51ea41092491f6c34d5f89fa.png)

Every ten minutes, the system slightly reallocates points. Think of is a tax on users with high points that get reallocated to users with fewer points. This algorithm’s goal is to eventually return users to an equilibrium state of 1,000 points each (their starting conditions).

A graph over 24 hours might look like this:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/1/5/715328accf53e5884332dff5592e1aa073ac44af.jpeg)

Perhaps a slightly complicated version:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/1/b/61bb73b554845134b792c46e962bc8f30b7dfeac.jpeg)

I highly recommend for the folks at discorse to give this article a read. It has do with teh posts curation mechanism. I do not know how content is curated for users today on forums, thought this might ignite a valuable discussions.

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