Your goal hopefully is the same as our goal: use this special place that we developers have here to help each other as much as possible. This means starting to adopt a mentality that we all do our best to do what is good for the community.
GameDev.net was created over 10 years ago by a rag tag group of people with the idea that it is the COMMUNITY that can lift each other up, help one another, create articles and share information. The reputation system is going to begin to award members points for different actions on the site and especially those that benefit the community at large.
Below is a listing of our list of ways to earn reputation. At the moment only those items with an asterisk are active. While this list is by no means final, it should serve as an idea for members as to how reputation can be earned.
Some key terminology:
Rewarded for actions taken around the website in general
Moderator Points
Rewarded for actions that involve policing the community or reviewing content
Scholar Points
Rewarded for actions that work to benefit the knowledge of community members
Author Points
Rewarded for actions that create content for the community to learn from
GameDev.net was created over 10 years ago by a rag tag group of people with the idea that it is the COMMUNITY that can lift each other up, help one another, create articles and share information. The reputation system is going to begin to award members points for different actions on the site and especially those that benefit the community at large.
As a member you’ll be able to earn points for basic site participation activities, for posting helpful replies in the forums, policing the community using moderator actions, and ESPECIALLY for authoring tutorials and helpful blog posts.
Points are split into 4 categories:
- Scholar - Any up/down votes you receive from posts in the technical, business, or creative forums will be added to the scholar category.
- Moderator - Points given for moderator actions (activities such as submitting moderator reports, voting on content, providing feedback, etc)
- Author - Points given to authors who write articles, get them peer reviewed, get articles favorited, etc. This is where people can pick up a lot of rep points if they get an article granted with a peer-reviewed status
- Participation - Points given for everyday site activities - logging in, up/downvoting others, even signing up!
These 4 categories will combine to create your overall reputation number on the site.
Below is a listing of our list of ways to earn reputation. At the moment only those items with an asterisk are active. While this list is by no means final, it should serve as an idea for members as to how reputation can be earned.
Some key terminology:
- Default Amount - this is how many points a member will earn as a result of this action (note that a negative amount can be applied to rescind an original transaction)
- Max Per Day - this is the maximum number of times this action can be taken for points, it is NOT the number of points you can earn per day
- Max Amount - this is the maximum number of times this action can be taken for points over the lifetime of your account
Rewarded for actions taken around the website in general
| Title | Default Amount | Max Per Day | Max Amount |
| Sign up for site * | 100 | 1 | 1 |
| Sign up for GDNet+ | 100 | 1 | 1 |
| Login * | 1 | 1 | inf |
| Opt-in to Newsletter | 50 | 1 | 1 |
| Post an abusive / spammy message If a post of yours is reported to a moderator and a moderator approves the report, you will suffer a point hit for the offending post *note that this is still under consideration | -20 | inf | inf |
Moderator Points
Rewarded for actions that involve policing the community or reviewing content
| Title | Default Amount | Max Per Day | Max Amount |
| Report Post to Moderator * Use the "Report" feature of posts and comments to flag inappropriate items for moderator review | 5 | 100 | inf0 |
| Moderator resolves report * | 10 | inf | inf |
| Moderator rejects report * Moderators review all submitted reports. A report can either be marked "completed" or deleted altogether. Only blatantly false or spammy reports will be deleted. | -10 | inf | inf |
| Vote and Comment on Article Vote on an un-reviewed article and offer constructive criticism (requires both a vote AND a comment, can only be done once per article) | 5 | inf | inf |
Scholar Points
Rewarded for actions that work to benefit the knowledge of community members
| Title | Default Amount | Max Per Day | Max Amount |
| Legacy Point System Transfer * Points transferred from the old reputation system | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Your topic is bookmarked * | 5 | inf | inf |
| Your post is upvoted/downvoted * Additional scholar points are added/removed based off of the reputation of the user doing the rating - the higher their rating, the more they contribute | 1/-1 | inf | inf |
| Bookmark a topic | 1 | 50 | inf |
| Your Reply is Marked as Answer | 15 | inf | inf |
Author Points
Rewarded for actions that create content for the community to learn from
| Title | Default Amount | Max Per Day | Max Amount |
| Submit a news item Send in a news item via the front page Submit News button | 5 | 10 | inf |
| Submit an article Submit a full article for editing | 15 | 5 | |
| Article Content Approved A content moderator has taken a look at your submitted article and approved it for the community to begin viewing | 100 | inf | inf |
| News Content approved The news item article the user submitted is cleared through the moderation queue | 15 | ||
| Article Granted "Peer Reviewed" Status The article you submitted was not only approved for initial publication, but is in good enough form to be considered "Peer Reviewed" | 50 | ||
| Create a journal entry | 10 | 1 | |
| Your content is voted up/down Additional points are added/removed based off the reputation of the user doing the rating of the user’s article or journal post | 1/-1 | inf | |
| Your content is commented on | 1 | 25 | |
| Write a book review | 15 | 5 | |
| Submit an IOTD | 10 | 1 | |
| Your IOTD is featured | 15 | 1 |