MVP Discussion: Reputation

[Corsaka]

Porting interesting answers from https://forum.codidact.org/t/mvp-proposal-user-trust-and-reward-system/114/:

@Lundin

The biggest flaw in the SE system by far, is that it mixes up domain knowledge with moderator suitability into a single mess called “user trust”. We need to get rid of that system. With this in mind:

• Site experience. Everything you do counts for this - like the SE rep system.
• Domain experience. Votes on answers count for this.
• Moderator experience. Edits, reviews, flagging etc.

@Academic-Quantity

I would still propose separating what’s used for bounties from what your reputation is. So, for example, 10 good edits might give you 1 mod reputation and 1 bounty point. Spending the bounty point doesn’t affect your mod reputation.

Although it feels like overkill to do all of this just for bounties, so perhaps it’s just something to keep in the back of our minds to potentially combine with other functionality.