But I see Mark's aims with the hall of fame more as a measurement tool for community participation than a way for people to show off. And in that way it can be considered to be a valuable resource. The problem however is that the raw number of posts says nothing about their quality, starting by not being able to distinguish questions and answers. The "rounds of applause" as I understand it is a way for people to express their gratefulness to people that helped them.
Yes Sylvain, this is what I am proposing: another (more measurable) way for people to express their gratefulness to people that have helped them. Is anyone else a user of 43things (see http://www.43things.com/)? The 43things "cheers" are a lovely example of this kind of thing, where people have a simple mechanism to encourage others. Read about cheers here: http://www.43things.com/about/view/cheers. The cheer carries no weight other than encouragement. The idea of 'targets', that is, collect 100 "rounds of applause" and progress to a notional 'next level', are optional.
I'll have a go at implementing such an idea in PlanetCocoon. You can take a look for yourselves - and judge its merit.
Ah, and I agree with Vadim: change the favicon :-)
Changed: it's now a more "PC" image. ;)
Best regards, Mark
