Rewards for Contributions

Refers to the key issue of how to reward contributors in peer projects.

See also our entries on Revenue Sharing and Crowdfunding

Description

Generally, awards take the form of:

• Earned point systems (e.g. Yahoo! Answers)

• Explicit endorsements (e.g. linkedIn)

• Peer rating systems and levels (e.g. Karma on Slashdot)

• Prizes (e.g. threadless.com)

• Recognition (e.g. open source code candidacy)

(summary from 'Hopper' in the Cooperation Commons mailing list)

More Information

Interesting blog posting on the topic at http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/05/rewarding_users_for_contributi.html