I have another thought, how about adding "Reports" under "Posts"? this badge idea is actually brilliant and I hope that in the next few days you could find the best design to properly implement it, but having (good) reports added under our forum names also could do the job, it might even provide more incentive for people to compete and have a bigger report count.
Activity:
Merit:
Posts:
Reports: or RTM as short for report to moderator.
Reputation:
Just my zero satoshi.
Disclaimer: this is my idea but if somebody else has already suggested this please don't ban me for plagiarising, I might have picked this idea from somewhere but this post is from my head. also you should ignore the redacted part, that's something which I wish we could also implement but this is not the place to discuss it.
I like the badge idea better. Reporting is better pseudo-anonymous.
Just have to be careful that it doesn't get too "industrialized" with the reporting .
There is the risk with any incentive that the best intentions get used by those with malignant purpose.
For instance I can report an entire thread full of account farmers with a single report - or I can report each user individually to get a badge.
Re: vulnerability of the forum. slander in plagiarismRe: [staff] xandry: may I ask an explanation?Indirectly cover some of those issues where merit was used to reward those that gave good reports. It was done with the best intent by the moderators but was abused by some of the forum members.