I actually think it might be an idea to seriously consider and discuss. I mean, awards and badges of honour are given by many communities, there’s no real reason why not to honour someone if they did some much-appreciated thing. It only becomes difficult when the honouring is being done by some questionable “authority”. Boils down to, “who would be the authority here?” – But having (meaningful) badges to give away, and especially if they can be passed on, which are understood as what they are, that is just some electric patterns in computers which we interpret in a certain way, why not. This can be a way of community financing – see it as wealth redistribution. “So i have some money which i want to put into the community, and i get visibly honoured for it, and i can pass that non-thing on, that’s a virtual incentive!”
Not sure if you guys remember, but the reddit of old had a progress bar of sorts in the sidebar tracking their goal for the month (I think). If done right, that can be a great way to support your server, but it’s too soon to say for sure. Many hoops to jump through until we get to that stage and that’ll bring new problems of its own.
I actually think it might be an idea to seriously consider and discuss. I mean, awards and badges of honour are given by many communities, there’s no real reason why not to honour someone if they did some much-appreciated thing. It only becomes difficult when the honouring is being done by some questionable “authority”. Boils down to, “who would be the authority here?” – But having (meaningful) badges to give away, and especially if they can be passed on, which are understood as what they are, that is just some electric patterns in computers which we interpret in a certain way, why not. This can be a way of community financing – see it as wealth redistribution. “So i have some money which i want to put into the community, and i get visibly honoured for it, and i can pass that non-thing on, that’s a virtual incentive!”
Not sure if you guys remember, but the reddit of old had a progress bar of sorts in the sidebar tracking their goal for the month (I think). If done right, that can be a great way to support your server, but it’s too soon to say for sure. Many hoops to jump through until we get to that stage and that’ll bring new problems of its own.