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Ask YC: What are some good example of microrewards on websites?

19 points by andreyf 17y ago

andreyf 17y ago
Karma and SO's badges being the obvious examples...
eswat 17y ago
thesixtyone has a pretty good microreward system with their quests and user levels. I ended up micro-manging my next songs and listening longer on that site than I should have... http://www.thesixtyone.com/ http://www.thesixtyone.com/
bretthoerner 17y ago
Make an OKCupid account: http://www.okcupid.com/ http://www.okcupid.com/
- brandnewlow 17y ago
  Can't upvote this hard enough. Those guys are pro's.
  - apgwoz 17y ago
    As much as I'm sure you're correct, I'm not sure my wife's discovery of said account would go over too well... It was for research into online reward systems, I swear!
    - andreyf 17y ago
      Thought that also. There is an option to say you're married looking for "friends" ;)
    - philwelch 17y ago
      There's no shortage of married folks on the site who aren't looking for any kind of relationship.
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adrianwaj 17y ago
I wonder how hard or useful it would be to create a generic micro reward currency. -- edit: there'd have to be exchange rates and an inter-site micro reward exchange market. Also a way to cash out, and buy in.
- andreyf 17y ago
  Hah! Then, it might make sense to put an actual price so I can cash out on all of this karma I've been working on ;)
  - adrianwaj 17y ago
    Well you could list your karma along with their associated comments, someone might want to buy your output! -edit: also, karma here isn't transferable, that's the problem, but people would like to have increased karma for status value, but that status value would disappear if it became transferable.
tomhosford 17y ago
-Yelp "Elite Users" get the little title next to their name if they post enough useful reviews. Likewise Amazon has their whole 'Top Reviewer' thing. -Messageboards where members can give each other validation points, and then the amount of "rep points" someone has is displayed next to their name. -Foursquare has the reward of making a user the "Mayor" if they post enough reviews about a certain area, and gives users 'badges' for completing different tasks. (I've never actually used it, but its something to that effect.)
joez 17y ago
One good implementation that has not been mentioned is http://www.kongregate.com http://www.kongregate.com. More good examples are http://www.Yelp.com http://www.Yelp.com and http://www.Mahalo.com http://www.Mahalo.com. I almost feel like http://www.thewhuffiebank.com http://www.thewhuffiebank.com is also a good example of an attempt at microreward and reputation system on a grander scale.
ankeshk 17y ago
http://www.stackoverflow.com http://www.stackoverflow.com

19 points by andreyf 17y ago

Karma and SO's badges being the obvious examples...

eswat 17y ago

thesixtyone has a pretty good microreward system with their quests and user levels. I ended up micro-manging my next songs and listening longer on that site than I should have... http://www.thesixtyone.com/ http://www.thesixtyone.com/

bretthoerner 17y ago

Make an OKCupid account: http://www.okcupid.com/ http://www.okcupid.com/

brandnewlow 17y ago
Can't upvote this hard enough. Those guys are pro's.
- apgwoz 17y ago
  As much as I'm sure you're correct, I'm not sure my wife's discovery of said account would go over too well... It was for research into online reward systems, I swear!
  - andreyf 17y ago
    Thought that also. There is an option to say you're married looking for "friends" ;)
  - philwelch 17y ago
    There's no shortage of married folks on the site who aren't looking for any kind of relationship.

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adrianwaj 17y ago

I wonder how hard or useful it would be to create a generic micro reward currency. -- edit: there'd have to be exchange rates and an inter-site micro reward exchange market. Also a way to cash out, and buy in.

andreyf 17y ago
Hah! Then, it might make sense to put an actual price so I can cash out on all of this karma I've been working on ;)
- adrianwaj 17y ago
  Well you could list your karma along with their associated comments, someone might want to buy your output! -edit: also, karma here isn't transferable, that's the problem, but people would like to have increased karma for status value, but that status value would disappear if it became transferable.

tomhosford 17y ago

-Yelp "Elite Users" get the little title next to their name if they post enough useful reviews. Likewise Amazon has their whole 'Top Reviewer' thing. -Messageboards where members can give each other validation points, and then the amount of "rep points" someone has is displayed next to their name. -Foursquare has the reward of making a user the "Mayor" if they post enough reviews about a certain area, and gives users 'badges' for completing different tasks. (I've never actually used it, but its something to that effect.)

joez 17y ago

One good implementation that has not been mentioned is http://www.kongregate.com http://www.kongregate.com. More good examples are http://www.Yelp.com http://www.Yelp.com and http://www.Mahalo.com http://www.Mahalo.com. I almost feel like http://www.thewhuffiebank.com http://www.thewhuffiebank.com is also a good example of an attempt at microreward and reputation system on a grander scale.

ankeshk 17y ago

http://www.stackoverflow.com http://www.stackoverflow.com