Reply To: XP Ideas and Suggestions

[Jonathan Gonzalez]

We’ve discussed XP and how it’s used on the site quite a bit. I can’t speak for the technical side of things for implementing it on the site, but we have discussed general ideas on how it could be used. I personally wanted to have a set of badges that members could acquire from doing specific things on the site such as watching all the animation courses would give them an Animator Badge or something like that. Grading enough exercises and they’d get a badge for that, and they would appear in their profile page like a rack of medals.

Having a system for using acquired XP is probably not something that would happen. Unless we have a complete site economy for using this as some sort of currency on the site I just don’t see that happening. 

Having unique profiles, or nicknames is far more reasonable and something that could possibly happen. The crew already have special profile photos that denote we are crew, so something like that is already implemented.

One thing that I liked from the Bodybuilding.com forums is the “rep” system they had. If you had a high rep count you had a green bar below your name in your posts, if not it showed up red. Reputable members who gave good advice and were generally good members of the community had high rep counts. Those who were giving out bad advice or just being trolls had negative rep. You could give and deduct rep points from members which was a fun interactive way to reward members for good posts.

The points for a render farm is a unique idea and might be something that could possibly be done, although I’m not sure of the logistics of how that would work. @dbrown Might be able to answer a lot of these questions.