MOD: REQ: Points System

With the release of 8.05 last week I decided to update both my development environment as well as our live forums late last night so that I would have the latest stable code to work with. 

The design document I have so far needs to be completed but the basic concept is to have a points system that has a standard base value for all posts plus the possibility to rate posts and give additional points.  Some secondary features I have been looking at would be points for getting others to join, points for voting in polls etc... 

The possibilities are probably endless but I am looking to break this out into 2 phases with the first phase being getting the basic points for posts system in place.

I am also planning on making it totally modular so that there is maybe only one change to existing database structure and any changes to web code will be of the object kind in that we can turn on/off the points system without physically touching the code again and without adding large blocks of code to the existing code.

I actually think the hardest part is going to be working out the ratings functionality.   I could see that adding some  un-thought of consequences so that is probably better for phase 2.  

check out darb's warning mod for 7.9 maybe u get some ideas from that

Not sure if this is what you mean but I put a point system on my forum where a user can earn 1 or two points per post dependant on character count and which forum they are posting

Edited by Melkor - 22 January 2007 at 5:10pm

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