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In the things I shared about JungleDragon, I have talked a lot about karma. Karma is what you earn by positive actions, such as uploading an image or getting good votes on your images or comments. As you grow in karma, you can get promoted to a higher class. Classes are organized along a foodchain, where for example an ant is lower than the lion.

The class of a user is displayed everywhere a user is displayed, acting like a badge of honour. The primary theory behind this is that users are willing to be active just in order to earn and show of this badge. Today, however, I made it even more attractive to get promoted to higher classes. Click the screenshot below to enlarge:

I have tied a number of capabilities to classes:

Upload quota

The higher your class, the higher your upload quota. This system is mostly in place to avoid the situation where a lot of low class users are uploading a lot of images of low value. Any user who uploads good images will not have to worry too much about their quota.

Vote power

The higher your class, the higher your influence in votes on images and comments. This system rewards good users and gives them more power. Votes are of course important for showing things like lists of most popular images.

Vote defense

The higher your class, the better your defense against negative votes. This one only applies to comments, since images cannot be voted down. What happens is that if you have a high class, the impact of negative comment votes is reduced. This protects valuable users from “trolling” low class users.

Moderation power

This ability is very special, only preserved for the top classes. When you have a top class, you are able to edit the metadata of all images, including those not uploaded by you. The idea behind this is that you have proven to be a top community player, and therefore can be trusted to correct the data of others.

What do you think?

I’m quite happy with this idea of extending the use of classes. This way, a class is more than just a pretty picture to show of. It becomes even more attractive for a user to make positive contributions. Another stimulator. The best part about it is that it is not just good for that user alone, it is good for JungleDragon itself, as it offloads the task of moderation largely to the community itself. Jungledragon will not just be about user-generated content, it will be user-moderated too.

Curious to know what you think about this system?