So what about the idea of auctioning off items or giving them to people as a reward for some competitions. I know the design a weapon contest has a reward of a D3.com shirt, but that doesn't have much use in the diablo world.
Perhaps if the reward was something like a perfect griffs then people would put a lot more effort into their entries. Just an idea.......
Maybe umaru could set up item hunters. Like mods but are volunteering their services to hunt for rare items and supply them to the d3.com site. For the sheer purpose of auctioning off to the posters of the forum.
That could work. I would gladly volunteer my services to Umaru and supply him with a rare item once a month so that he could hold a competition or an auction to determine who is worthy of holding such an item.
It is still a reward system that encourages spamming. I liked Phrozen's Idea for the time delay before you can do certain things.
Not so much with a sig or an avatar but a time delay before you can give reputation or whatever. By the time they can send rep they would be bored of it and give up.
The only problem with reputation is that people have the ability to take it away. I myslef have had a few points of rep added to my name, but I was stripped of a point all because I told someone that a comment they had posted was completely stupid and off topic. For that I suffered a penalty to my rep. So if they were going to make that part of the reward system then they would indeed have to implement a way of checking and confirming whether or not that person deserved to have that reputation added or removed.
I am aware that the reputation does in fact work, but it doesn't do anything. When you hover over myself or many of the other posters on this site it says that we are on a distinguished road. Whereas if you hover over Elfen or Lord Silver, it says they will become famous soon enough. It is merely the fact that there is no reward or penalty for being famous or a wanker.
My first thought when reading the name of this thread was that it would end up being somewhat like the reputation system but in more working order with a little more reward. Why not just can the idea of gold and make some kind of reward for those with higher reputations. I.e. Changing the colour of their names, italics, bold and other pimping up abilities etc.
But then along with that comes a flood of fake accounts that are created in order to boost ones own reputation. Like the posting thing and the Forum Gold. That would encourage spamming.
So if you are going to create and idea like this you need to be extremely careful and possibly restrict peoples ability. For instance, make it so you can only give reputation after 500 posts or after you have been given the all-clear by a mod who has deemed you worthy. Then perhaps put up some kind of 'Wall of the Worthy' and a 'Named and Shamed' list.
Then you could use a reward system along with some kind of currency/reputation ranking.
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Perhaps if the reward was something like a perfect griffs then people would put a lot more effort into their entries. Just an idea.......
That could work. I would gladly volunteer my services to Umaru and supply him with a rare item once a month so that he could hold a competition or an auction to determine who is worthy of holding such an item.
Not so much with a sig or an avatar but a time delay before you can give reputation or whatever. By the time they can send rep they would be bored of it and give up.
I am aware that the reputation does in fact work, but it doesn't do anything. When you hover over myself or many of the other posters on this site it says that we are on a distinguished road. Whereas if you hover over Elfen or Lord Silver, it says they will become famous soon enough. It is merely the fact that there is no reward or penalty for being famous or a wanker.
But then along with that comes a flood of fake accounts that are created in order to boost ones own reputation. Like the posting thing and the Forum Gold. That would encourage spamming.
So if you are going to create and idea like this you need to be extremely careful and possibly restrict peoples ability. For instance, make it so you can only give reputation after 500 posts or after you have been given the all-clear by a mod who has deemed you worthy. Then perhaps put up some kind of 'Wall of the Worthy' and a 'Named and Shamed' list.
Then you could use a reward system along with some kind of currency/reputation ranking.