I’ve been trying to create communities that are missing and filling them with content as much as I can. That’s obviously not scalable as one person, so I try to encourage others via commenting.

Any thoughts around the idea of points (Similar to Karma) and seeing weekly/monthly ranking of content creating users?

Light hearted competition, and encourages contributing > lurking.

If you don’t like the idea, please share your suggestions. I’m just trying to think of ways to encourage contribution and capitalize on the hot iron we have going on now. :)

  • @[email protected]English
    0•2 years ago

    Yeah if anything the best way would probably be to make a big post asking everyone who’s proud of their extensive contributions so far to put their name in contention for recognition. And people could obviously nominate other users for the modest among us. And then go through the accounts of everyone who responds and make another post announcing awards/winners. Might be a nice way for power users to get to know each other as well.

    • @_MoveSwiftlyOPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Potentially, but I like these things being automated by instance mods since they have all the data. :)

      • @[email protected]English
        -1•2 years ago

        Lol this is true. I’m an analog man, digital solutions are not my forte.

        But at the very least that’d require getting a significant number of instance admins on board, and they probably have their own views as well. Ain’t no easy way to do it, methinks. One of caveats of federation is that there’s no central authority who can unilaterally implement these ideas. We have to implement them ourselves.

        • @_MoveSwiftlyOPEnglish
          2•2 years ago

          Absolutely true, which is why I posted it on Lemmy.world. I joined on this instance, so if figured I’d ask here and see.

          • @[email protected]English
            0•2 years ago

            Ah, I see, you were just considering your home instance. So if I want a shiny new award I’ll have to ask my admin, TheDude, about this proposal 😅. Good idea though

            • @_MoveSwiftlyOPEnglish
              1•2 years ago

              Yeah, it’s a bit rough trying to get the fediverse to agree on a single idea ya know. If it does work here though, it would ripple if it has a good effect.

              • @[email protected]English
                0•2 years ago

                I think my instance is getting along really well so far. If you guys try it out here I’m pretty sure we would follow suit.