Guild Wars 2

I propose a positive reinforcement system to promote helpful comments and to bolster the sense of community on the forums. We already have ‘infraction points’ to punish offenders. The system has been helpful and I think the incidence of negativity has gone down somewhat but it could be better if we were rewarded for particularly insightful posts. At a minimum, we can try to cut down on useless comments or posts completely irrelevant to the topic.

Perhaps there could be a ranking system? As ‘good’ posts are upvoted by forum users, it adds toward the poster’s forum score which appears on the left under his/her name. Moderators could even upvote particularly helpful or insightful posts which rewards twice as many points.

This way we can compete for helpfulness as a kind of achievement. It would also give us a sense of seniority among GW2 players who contribute here, though the person’s rank should not afford them any forum benefits over lesser ranking users in order to prevent abuse.

The system does not reward the quantity of posts, but the quality.

oh another popularity contest like reputation on other forums? no thanks, its always abused anyway.

I have a feeling there will be a wave of similar sentiments, Catisa. I’ve noticed that’s how the suggestions threads usually go ;-)

No worries though, a bad idea is a bad idea. I’m curious how it gets abused in other forums.

dinominator.9862:

I have a feeling there will be a wave of similar sentiments, Catisa. I’ve noticed that’s how the suggestions threads usually go ;-)

No worries though, a bad idea is a bad idea. I’m curious how it gets abused in other forums.

i can see quite a few ways, the most basic being a couple friends just upvoting each others nonsense for instance

GummiBear.2756:

i can see quite a few ways, the most basic being a couple friends just upvoting each others nonsense for instance

That never even crossed my mind, but you’re right- that would probably happen.