Add Passive Income Method for Economy

[java-discord]

Add Passive Income Method for Economy

[danthe1st]

I think this would need to be somehow communicated to users so that people who earned credits know this system exist.

My opinion on your suggestions for earning credits

Correctly reporting users that violate rules.

I agree with that being a good idea for earning credits but this would not be viable for a main "source of income" as reasons for reporting doesn't happen that often.

Providing help to users.

The question is how that should be implemented (what exactly counts as help to users).

Asking well-formatted questions.

How would you measure what question is well-formatted?

Participating in the Jam and QOTW events.

This would not only be a great "source of income" but could also increase the participation. However, I don't see that many people doing this jam for "useless credits on a coding discord server" if they are not interested in the current jam rewards (except the reason is they don't see a chance to win but would be encouraged by the reward for participation itself).

Contributing to this Bot's source code.

In my opinion, this is a great way to earn credits but I cannot see this being a main way of earning credits as most people wouldn't see a way of contributing here.
On the other hand, this could greatly help people getting started with contributing to open source projects.
Also, I want to note that different actions may need to be awarded differently (fixing a typo, creating a bug report or fixing a bug; this could be done using labels on the PR/issue that are assigned by maintainers).

Getting their message onto the star board.

If this gets to be a way of earning credits, I think it should be prohibited to react with :star: on own messages (especially if the message does not have any stars before that). Also, this would make posting memes a "main source of income" and could result in the server be flooded with (possibly bad) memes as an attempt to gain credits by many people who don't participate in another way (just a possibility, though).

Other ideas

• Suggesting an idea in #suggestions that gets accepted
• Posting useful information in #share-knowledge (but this would require a way to differentiate between useful information and useless crap, maybe determine how well this stuff is resceived (e.g. upvote/downvote)).

Please make it useful

Finally, I think that there is the need of making credits worth something instead of just allowing to earn and giving away credits as this could result in nobody really caring about credits and making it a useless feature.

[Kemikals]

I think one way with our new help channel system is we keep track of everyone that speaks in the channel between reserve/unreserve. If they use /unreserve we can send an ephemeral message back to them where they can select which people helped them. If they just let it expire, possibly send a pm if anyone talked that wasn't them between then. My thinking to keep it anonymous is if multiple people talk in a channel to keep animosity to a minimum if they didn't get selected.

[sahilasopa]

#suggestion so see when the user joins the server he/she/python guy has x number of credits, so assuming every new user has 0 credits the user can play around the server to earn it, ways can be, answer the question or maybe review some code or any other positive stuff it gives them points, now lets get back to the point about help so the whole thing i thought was the user will post the question in help and auto thread will be created, now there might be buttons for other users to join the thread once they join they can help the other guy and then the asker can use command such as /solved then the bot will pop the names of users in the thread and the asker can select who helped and after its done the thread will be deleted

[jasonlessenich]

We've decided to remove the economy system entirely for now. This may change in the future.