- Puma Knight
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- Exalted Legendary Member
Break down, every single one of you.
That is an interesting idea. One positive outcome is that rewarding users for positive behavior could cause more users to act positively. However, you would have to decide what these positive behaviors are, make the "badges" for them, and somehow quantify these positive behaviors so that a user can be graded on their behavior in the forums and awarded "badges" without bias. That would be somewhat of a problem.
As for standing out, the current ranking system does that, somewhat. And if a person behaves in a positive way that benefits the community consistently, then that causes them to be recognized by the community itself. However, the same thing could be said about the trolls. If a person does thing that are against the rules or that otherwise hinder the community, they tend to be recognized as well.
[Edited on 09.12.2012 4:11 PM PDT]