I don't see any point in it myself. Hell, even though I have a ton of useless points, they're meaningless. No matter what you did, these points would be the same. If you can buy badges, then it destroys the value of earning a badge. If you can buy tags, you're just making it a way for users to troll others. But hey, maybe your marketplace has merit. I'm just seeing no benefit.
One thing that would be nice and might help others would to put some value on owning or modding a site. Right now, other than being able to ban or delete stuff (something the vast majority won't do) or changing settings, there's no advantage to having and maintaining a sub. On Voat, for instance, a user could post three posts an hour, it became unlimited when you were a sub owner or mod. So there was an incentive to run a sub. I'm not sure that's a good idea here, since we're so small and I wouldn't want to inhibit anyone from posting more ... but maybe there's an incentive that could be added. On both Poal and Phuks, there's no reason to even become a mod ... and once you do own a sub or are a mod, there's no way to ever back away without getting admins involved or deleting your user name completely (another of my pet peeves).
Well I will work on a way to give up ownership/mod status of a sub. Thanks for your thoughts on the matter, any suggestion of what kind of benefit might come with owning/modding a sub?
It's a tough one. There should be some benefit, otherwise there's no incentive to create or mod a sub ... or offer someone a chance to mod. But I wouldn't think it should be posting limits ... not at this point, because we can use all the posts we can get and wouldn't want to stifle anyone's input. Maybe there is nothing that would work. I'm kinda just thinking out loud. Something to mull over for the future maybe.
I’ll think on it.
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