Community points

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Title:
Community points

Area:
communities, points, great ideas that could go badly wrong

Summary:
It could be interesting to allow communities to receive points, and to allow community admins to distribute points belonging to the community.

Description:
So yesterday I decided to hand out a few of the points that I happened to have on hand, and since it was related to a community sort of thing, I wondered if it would be possible to hand them out through the community. Of course, I then learned that one can't do this through a community -- one may only give points to an active personal journal (which, incidentally, means no giving points to OpenID users).

This could be great if people wanted to give points to a community to perhaps contribute toward a paid community, or for the administrators of that comm to give out as they saw fit, say to community members who contributed to the community, or as prizes, or what have you.

This could be seriously problematic, of course, if one admin of the community saw fit to transfer all the community's points to one of their spare accounts in the night and run overseas (or at least stop answering their e-mail). Or give them all to a friend. And when real money gets involved, drama can be right behind sometimes.

Do the possibilities for good outweigh the possibilities for evil?

Poll #3656 Community points

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45

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Should be implemented as-is.
15 (33.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
13 (28.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
9 (20.0%)

(I have no opinion)
5 (11.1%)

(Other: please comment)
3 (6.7%)