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Not sure if this belongs to this forum or to the soapbox 
Anyhow, as you probably know, several games have different kinds of rewards: You do something several times enough, you get a reward. The reward is typically represented as an icon along to your profile.
Why not having something like that on CP? For example, you report 50 posts as a spam, you get a reward "Spammer splatter" which would have a proper icon and so on. These icons would be collected to profile pages and shown with the profile.
I admit, this would be completely useless, but nevertheless it could also be fun.
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Why do you need a reward, to do the correct thing? I don't think it would be fun.
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Slacker007 wrote: Why do you need a reward, to do the correct thing
You don't. The spammer splatter was just an example.
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Just had a look at your icon. It says MVP. Completely useless, but it tells everyone that you're helping people out.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Completely useless
Exactly
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Useless? Nonsense!
You get many benefits with MVP-hood:
1) A key to the Executive Toilet
2) A Certificate, hand delivered by an oiled man in only a mankini and nipple tassles.
3) The ability to read your own mind.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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OriginalGriff wrote: A key to the Executive Toilet
That is not useful for me... 
Before arriving to Canada I would have got an... "accident"...
The oily man + mankini + nipple tassles... well, this is scary enough to start trolling here in CP...
And reading oneself mind... that could be useful indeed!
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Sean in a Mankini is not a pretty sight, no...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Now that's just mean.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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You're used to it! 
It comes as a shock the first time...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Mika Wendelius wrote: Why not having something like that on CP? For example, you report 50 posts as a spam, you get a reward "Spammer splatter" which would have a proper icon and so on.
You're awarded a point (with a maximum of 25 per day) for each spam-article that you report
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yep, I know Actually I thought that this would have nothing to do with the rep points etc. Just a bunch of collectible items... Although now as you mention, perhaps after collecting enough of items they could be traded to an orange, CodeProject signed swatter
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Something like this[^]?
Sorry, CodeProject T-shirt is here[^] - but they trade against other collectible items, not against reputation points
Bastard Programmer from Hell
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yep, something like that
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Mika Wendelius wrote: You do something several times enough, you get a reward. The reward is typically represented as an icon along to your profile.
I'm ready to......[^]
Chuck Norris
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Hi Mika,
In my humble opinion: this would just introduce "merit-badge clutter" aka "visual static," as found on sites like StackOverFlow. I am astounded my trivial contributions there have earned me twenty-three "badges"
I say this with the greatest respect for StackOverFlow, and Jeff Atwood, its uber-genius creator (with Joel Spolsky, who is now CEO of StackExchange), blogger par excellence[^], and such monster-technical-intellect(so prolific !), monster-rep contributors/editors to SO as: Jon Skeet (now with Google, England ?), Erik Lippert from Microsoft, the polymath Marc Gravell, and many others.
I really believe CP's current rep system is well-done, is continually fine-tuned by all the hamsters, from the Hamster-In-Chief on down, and appropriately simple (interface parsimony).
best, Bill
<color>"When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images." Niels Bohr
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That's a really good point.  Didn't think of it that way.
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I'm unable to successfully delete this draft tip/trick[^].
When I do, it seems like it is successful, but upon refresh it reappears.
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I'd be happy to take care of that for you. May I?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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Thank you kindly. I have taken care of it.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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When changing from an article to a tip/trick, I noticed that I was still awarded 100 author points, rather than the 10 for a tip/trick.
See Scrolling Text[^].
Just fyi.
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By design. We had so many members posting HTML in code blocks, and so many requests to have markups automatically HTML encoded, that we HTML encoded markups in Pre blocks.
You can use <span class=highlight>...</span> to highlight stuff in PRe blocks.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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