Rewards for Contributions

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

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