Suggestion: Make Kudos easier to give across Nexus site collection

[azurkryptos]

Hello Nexus Devs & Users,

 

The Nexus community thrives, at it's core, because active users receive recognition for their work. As the recent Bethesda.net fiasco shows, recieving credit for your input/mods/creations/help/wiki posts is/would be important to the 10% of users who contribute 90% of the content to your sites. Right now, the endorsement system for mods is a great example of a solid implementation of a recognition system that is balanced between user interface & creator recognition. The most endorsed mods get to the homepage, are spotlighted by content creators on other platforms, get much more positive feedback in their comments section. Intuition would say that these content creators who receive recognition via this system tend to keep their content updated, upgrade their content from feedback, and create new content more frequently than creators in other areas of the nexus sites.

 

Here is my proposal:

 

Expand your Endorsement/Kudos system to the following areas in the following ways:

 

1. Forums

• for Original Topic Creators add a +Kudos(Topic) object at the bottom of the original topic post.
• for Replies to the original topic add a +Kudos(Reply) object at the bottom of the reply.
• for a Reply to a ^Reply add a +Kudos(Conversation) object at the bottom of the replier's reply.

2. Wiki

• for creators of new Wiki pages add a +Kudos(WikiPage) object next to the Subject at the top of the page
• for major edits or additions to a Wiki page add a +Kudos(WikiEdit) to the bottom of each section
• for hyperlinks create a +Kudos(Linker) object and use it to count the click-throughs to the link

3. Mod Pages

• for "Bugs" page add a +Kudos(Debugger) object and use it to count bugs that the mod author sets to "solved" or to a much lesser extent sets to "not a bug"
• same as Forums above for posts and forums section of mod

These changes would give users the chance to give kudos on the spot/based on their activity for other actions on the Nexus. This information could be used to drive a Forum Hot Topic section, a Wiki Hot Topic Section, and a "Most Useful Comments/Replies/Conversations" Section within the mod page. These Kudos could also drive metrics that the user and others can see regarding where the user has contributed the most to the site or to modding a particular game. I'm thinking a bar graph with each type of Kudos represented, but your experience with Endorsement System should drive how these metrics are displayed. I hope this Feedback is reviewed and is useful and I'm open to Replies