userpoints

Hundreds of communities trading with complementary currencies need this!

Two years ago, working with the UK Coordinator for LETS I prototyped an architecture to support these communities with all their variants. Right now I have time to port it to Drupal which is the obvious platform. Progress is slow because I'm learning on the job, so this project needs mentoring.

While I'm working hard on a new drupal website, I'm also thinking hard about the User and Content Points System I am trying to create for this website. Actually I had the idea of such a system before I started with drupal. But right now I'm very happy because of drupal's great module support, it seems to me that I'm going to work on only two additional modules and here we go:

Can anyone point me to some good examples of userpoints? We've enabled theom our sites, but so far we're not doing anything besides tracking the total in the user profile. We're interested in using them as a way to reward users for participation (i.e. giving them different ranks for reaching certain point levels) and/or as an alternative currency to purcahse t-shirts and other schwag. But we're nervous about the potential to incent quanity over quality. Any suggestions?

FYI our sites are:

http://www.yourclimbing.com
http://www.yourmtb.com
http://www.yourclimbing.com

TIA,
Derek