I had a thought about giving users points, what do you think?

First off, I don't want to scare any of our employees, this doesn't mean you will have to drop everything and build this, but I wanted to just have this discussion in the public.

Many people like made up internet points, but they can cause bad behavior as we've seen on other platforms. I had a thought today on the way in to work:

What if we did have karma and you get one point for starting a conversation? This could be:

  • You made a chat post and people participated in it
  • You made a post that people had a discussion in (how do we define a discussion? I think you have to have at least 2 people talk to each other).
  • You made the first comment in a post and it got a reply from someone else.

To be clear, you would only ever get a single point for starting a conversation, not an accrual of the likes on that. What do you think? Would love to brainstorm with everyone!