There are often members who contribute a tremendous amount to the community and likewise on Overgrow as a platform. Without them and their valued contributions it’s easy to say that the community just wouldn’t be the same.
That said, the current membership privilege levels known as trust levels don’t always reflect these members immense contributions. At first I thought it would be a good idea to possibly revamp the trust levels, but at the end of the day there will always be something that someone else feels needs adjustment. With the addition of some newly created badges, I think this can be achieved.
With respect to revamping the karma system, I made mention of the old karma system that OG used to use in the original version, that comments could be liked or disliked as well as the karma for that user for a given comment could be influenced with a positive or negative karma hit. Additionally, ones karma was viewed as a ratio of growing related vs non growing related for quick reference. I valued these features of the old platform and am curious what other members and the moderation team thinks.
As a specific example, member @Upstate. I would love to see members like this who are so valued and who contribute so much receive the additional website privileges that due to the nature of their browsing and posting habits for whatever reason keep them from gaining benefits afforded other members with different browsing styles. Maybe even special badges for these legendary contributors? A badge that grants the member the privilege of unlimited likes? Or likes based on the amount of interaction one has? I can imagine @upstate runs out of likes more than most as he is so very active and helping cultivate so many likeable places within Overgrow from which conversations and discussions take place.
Personally, there are times when I have felt embarrassed because I couldn’t like every comment within a discussion and thought it may come across that since I liked some comments that since I didn’t like others that followed that I for whatever reason didn’t like them, simply due to the omission of a like. Yeah, I overthink just about everything. Still an often thought!
Really hoping we can have some honorary regular badges created for the select few individuals who contribute so much but seem to slip through the website privileges leveling up cracks.
I believe that everyone makes up the community from those who only lurk and have never even signed up to those who are the top website contributors and everything in between. Much love
