The WebCusso Point Center is a strategic implementation designed to drive user engagement while ensuring the quality of content remains high. The system rewards users for their active participation on the platform, from creating discussion threads to commenting and voting on existing content. It fosters a vibrant community where activity is encouraged, and meaningful contributions are recognized.

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How the Point System Works

Users earn points for various activities on the WebCusso platform:

 

1. Creating a New Thread at a New URL

• Points Earned: 10 points per thread.

• Daily Limit: 5 threads.

• Purpose: To encourage the expansion of WebCusso’s reach across diverse internet domains and foster new discussions.

• Rationale: By rewarding the creation of new threads on previously uncommented URLs, we promote the spread of WebCusso engagement globally. The limit of five new threads per day ensures that users are thoughtful about their contributions, preventing spam and encouraging meaningful discussions. The potential for losing points from downvotes further deters users from creating frivolous or low-quality threads.

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2. First Five Comments on New Threads

• Points Earned: 5 points per comment.

• Daily Limit: Points for up to 10 sets of first five comments.

• Purpose: To ensure that newly created threads quickly gain traction and become vibrant centers of discussion.

• Rationale: Offering higher points for the first five comments motivates users to engage promptly with new content, which helps establish a solid foundation for ongoing discussions. The limit on earning points for these initial comments encourages broad participation across various threads.

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3. Regular Comments

• Points Earned: 2 points per comment.

• Daily Limit: 30 comments.

• Purpose: To sustain active and diverse engagement within existing discussions.

• Rationale: This setup encourages users to continue participating in discussions beyond the initial comments, fostering deeper interactions. The daily cap of 30 incentivizes engagement across multiple discussions, ensuring users spread their contributions rather than focusing too narrowly.

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4. Upvoting and Downvoting

• Points Earned: 2 points per vote.

• Daily Limit: 15 votes total, beyond 15 users can still upvote/downvote posts, but won't earn points.

• Purpose: To empower users to curate content quality through community moderation.

• Rationale: This mechanism allows the community to reward valuable contributions and discourage harmful or less useful content. Limiting points earned from voting to 15 per day ensures that users are thoughtful in their voting behavior, enhancing the integrity of content curation.

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5. Getting Upvotes

• Points Earned: 1 point per upvote received.

• Daily Limit: None.

• Purpose: To incentivize the creation of high-quality, engaging content.

• Rationale: Rewarding users for receiving upvotes encourages them to post thoughtful and useful comments, driving the overall quality of content. There is no cap on the points earned from receiving upvotes, which motivates continuous quality contributions. There is no limit in earning upvotes and Points on getting upvotes, and thus getting maximum amount of upvotes would be a major factor in leading the leaderboards, thus would foster users to post quality contents across the platform to gain maximum upvotes, so that they can lead the Leaderboard.

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6. Getting Downvotes

• Points Deducted: 3 points per downvote received.

• Purpose: To discourage the posting of low-quality or inappropriate content.

• Special Rule: No points are deducted if the downvoter has exceeded their daily voting limit, protecting users from targeted downvote campaigns.

• Rationale: This setup maintains the quality of discussions by penalizing poorly received contributions while preventing misuse of the downvoting system to unfairly target users.

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7. Spam Reporting

• Points Earned: 1 point per successful action.

• Purpose: To maintain a healthy and respectful discussion environment by enabling users to report and remove spam or inappropriate content.

• Rationale: Although reporting itself does not earn points to prevent abuse, rewards are given when reports lead to action, encouraging responsible and community-minded behavior.

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