Communities to Receive Points

[jumpuphigh]

Title:
Communities to Receive Points

Area:
Accounts

Summary:
Communities currently cannot receive points. I suggest allowing them to do so.

Description:
Currently, communities don't have the ability to receive points from users. I suggest that we change this. Instead of allowing users to only buy time for communities, it would be awesome if we could transfer points now that we have the points system.

Examples of ways it could be useful:
-Two people want to share the cost of a month's membership. Each person transfers 15 points.
-The community is holding a contest. People give 5 points to participate. Community now has points for prizes.
-You love a post made by a community. You want to give points as kudos. You can transfer as many points as you feel is appropriate.

Poll #7552 Communities to Receive Points

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 54

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Should be implemented as-is.
20 (37.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
15 (27.8%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.9%)

(I have no opinion)
18 (33.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[denise]

There's plans, yeah. Less "community owner" and more "community creator will be able to designate any/all of the tasks inherent in community ownership", such as letting person A manage tags for the comm as though they own it and person B change the settings on the comm and blah blah blah. Having trouble coming up with a good UI for it though.

[azurelunatic]

And upon leaving the comm, will be able to hand their magic wand to someone else?

[denise]

Yup!

[azurelunatic]

(oh god I am off topic here but it is also 5am) And what if they want to step back but still admin, just not run the whole show anymore?

[boundbooks]

Speaking of handing off comms, is there any way to petition for a comm with a deleted admin to be handed off to someone else?

For example, I'd like to take over theauthority and have asked the members, but nothing I've found on DW's FAQ has show me where to petition.

Is there somewhere I should go that I haven't found?

[denise]

Open up a support request in the Terms of Service category. (I know it doesn't seem like it has anything to do with ToS, but that's the group that has the priv necessary to do the transfer!)

[boundbooks]

Cool, just did so! Thank you! :D

[denise]

Also, I just added a FAQ for that, since it comes up oftenish!

[boundbooks]

Oh, excellent! I was just going to suggest that, and then I saw this comment. XD

[azurelunatic]

I'm visualizing a grid of checkboxen, and the axes of it may be flopped, so one could either easily do the "check all powers for this one person" or do the "give all people these powers".

Powers come pre-populated. (Bundles? hmm.) Grid would be silly if all members of comm were on it; there would be a thing to add them (checkboxen in membership roster + text-entry on manage page?) and then grid happy funtimes ensues. On checking, square on the grid holding checkbox highlights, so one can see more easily if there are any breaks (you have no-one holding one particular thing, or a person lacking a specific power).