[Slashcode-general] Points for Community Spirit

[<al...@ya...>]

This isn't really about the slashcode software but more about how I might do something
on my main slash site.

Many of my users do things for our online community which aren't directly done on the slash site
eg - a bit of publicity, or emailing me a review, or giving us books, or giving us an interview,
and so on. Since I don't pay for reviews I have in my head a kind of points system instead.
Eg person W gives me lots of reviews and therefore "wins" first pick of review books as they 
come in. Now this worked fine whilst there was just a few people in the community but I am
happy to say that I have loads of people saying they are doing tasks needed by the site. 
Maybe I'll add in some capability to vote on articles in which case a favourable vote might also
give the author some points.

I am wondering whether people have experience of some kind of points system which they
might have used in conjunction with a slash site (or similar).

I remember hearing about the advogadro system for rating open source authors - but I can't seem 
to find it now even with google searches. 

I'm not afraid of writing perl cgi scripts but am a bit confused as to what is involved in
writing a slash plugin. I could perhaps create a new table for these points and an admin 
interface so that I can "award points". (PS I can't pretend I have much spare time though :-(

Any pointers folks? Would this be useful to you?

Alex


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Alex McLintock        al...@OW...    Open Source Consultancy in London
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