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Ask YC: What are some good example of microrewards on websites? (trendpreneur.com)
19 points by andreyf on Sept 16, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 13 comments



One good implementation that has not been mentioned is http://www.kongregate.com. More good examples are http://www.Yelp.com and http://www.Mahalo.com.

I almost feel like http://www.thewhuffiebank.com is also a good example of an attempt at microreward and reputation system on a grander scale.


Karma and SO's badges being the obvious examples...


thesixtyone has a pretty good microreward system with their quests and user levels. I ended up micro-manging my next songs and listening longer on that site than I should have...

http://www.thesixtyone.com/


Make an OKCupid account: http://www.okcupid.com/


Can't upvote this hard enough. Those guys are pro's.


As much as I'm sure you're correct, I'm not sure my wife's discovery of said account would go over too well... It was for research into online reward systems, I swear!


There's no shortage of married folks on the site who aren't looking for any kind of relationship.


Thought that also. There is an option to say you're married looking for "friends" ;)


-Yelp "Elite Users" get the little title next to their name if they post enough useful reviews. Likewise Amazon has their whole 'Top Reviewer' thing.

-Messageboards where members can give each other validation points, and then the amount of "rep points" someone has is displayed next to their name.

-Foursquare has the reward of making a user the "Mayor" if they post enough reviews about a certain area, and gives users 'badges' for completing different tasks. (I've never actually used it, but its something to that effect.)



I wonder how hard or useful it would be to create a generic micro reward currency.

-- edit: there'd have to be exchange rates and an inter-site micro reward exchange market. Also a way to cash out, and buy in.


Hah! Then, it might make sense to put an actual price so I can cash out on all of this karma I've been working on ;)


Well you could list your karma along with their associated comments, someone might want to buy your output!

-edit: also, karma here isn't transferable, that's the problem, but people would like to have increased karma for status value, but that status value would disappear if it became transferable.




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