Scratch

I read Car and Driver magazine and have an account on their site. The way it's set up is: you get a certain amount of points for posting a comment, picture, or forum post. Over time, your points accumulate and you have a symbol diplaying how close you are to "Super User" or "Moderator" status.

I thought a similar system would be good for Scratch, where maybe a comment would be worth 10 pts. and a project post would be worth 50 pts. Then the Scratchers that are trying to help improve the whole Scratch community would have a chance to, over time, become more invovled in how the website looks, what the forums should be like, etc.

I also think maybe there should be a "like" and "dislike" button on all comments, and when another user hits "like," you get 5 pts. If they hit "dislike," you lose 5 pts.

Obviously, each user would start out with 0 points, and over time, would accumulate more and more points.

I thought a point system would look like this:

-100 pts - if something you posted is flagged as innapropriate, and found innapropriate by the Scratch Team

-5 pts - if someone dislikes a comment you posted
5 pts - if someone likes a comment you posted
10 pts - if you post a comment
50 pts - if you upload a project (but it would have to be a real project and not something that simply has the letter "w" in the screen and nothing happens)

What are your thoughts?