Quote Originally Posted by scbubba View Post
I like what you are saying (as evidenced by the thumbs up on your post ) but isn't the system really going to work based on what each user decides to star? In other words, the community decides what is rep-worthy.

Unless we want to have people moderate the rep-giving such that it is more like the award system... Which I don't think anyone wants....
Well that's just it, what is rep worthy to one, may not be to another. What had me wondering was how the two were linked--mostly the questions came up during one of the changes when the star went away completely and rep was based in the "like" world. It's like the difference between liking a link on Facebook and sharing it, or re-tweets vs. favourites. One has slightly more "meaning" behind it than the other.

One thing I would really love to see is the ability to give an award that you possess to another user that you feel deserves it.

Example:

I've got the "Most Awesome Post Ever" award because of "whatever reason." I'm reading through another post about Angel's "what have you" and I come across a post that makes me say, "By Odin's Raven, I'd never, in my entire life, looked at it that way!" because of something that reaper(whatever numbers you want) posts. It'd be nice to be able to hand over the "Most Awesome Post Ever" award to him right here on the spot.

I guess that's a little like bestowing user points on another member. You're giving something of yourself to another. It's almost worth having a finite number of points in play, and users having to share them with each other. Rep you give isn't just appearing out of thin air . . . it's like you're vouching for them by giving them rep points that you have. I'm just spit-ballin' here.

On the subject of favourites, that'd be a really interesting feature to introduce. The ability to favourite a post.