# Points based currency to reward quality

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/points-based-currency-to-reward-quality/286786>\
**Category:** Feature\
**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:** ![jericson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jericson/32/116215_2.png) [@jericson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jericson)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 8:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/points-based-currency-to-reward-quality/286786/12 "2023-11-30T20:22:00Z")

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> [@merefield](#):
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> Haha, love it. A blog post, the antithesis of a quick win on Stack Exchange, about Stack Exchange.

Well, it started life [as a Meta post](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/42481/the-problem-with-extrinsic-motivation). 😉

> [@merefield](#):
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> Funnily enough … the guy who ran it got another kick out of it - he installed it on our intranet and administered it. I remember thinking about this when I first built my own install of Discourse - this must’ve been the pleasure _he_ felt.

It really is a great feeling to get a server up and running. It’s even better when it’s something like Discourse that other people can contribute to. One of my regrets at my last job was not insisting on having an internal Discourse instance where our team could store things we’d learned and discuss next steps.

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