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I use WorldAnvil to keep track of building my world, not to socially interact with other worlds. I do care about new features and being able to suggest things. If this was implemented my voice would be very diluted as I don't look at WorldAnvil as a social networking site. There are so many other venues for social networking and I would hate if WorldAnvil joined their ranks.

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All my worlds are private, but this is still a great idea!

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I like this idea, though I do see a problem some others have mentioned - those that are already known getting more comments, thus more coins. But it is a nice way, I think, of helping others spread the love.

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I like this idea. Anything to help people and their articles get noticed, I think. I don't know how that would really help, as the already known people will just get more comments and likes. (Not to talk down on those!!) But as a Guild-Master I get 50 coins a day, and I already get more than I know what to do with. so commenting to collect more coins isn't I think I forsee.

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I like the idea and want to boost AntimatterNuke and Toblin's comments on it too.

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I like the idea of incentivizing feedback, networking, and communication within WA. i am not sure if this is the way, as I can see both sides as I see the side that worries it could be abused, but perhaps a work around would be, if the coins are desired, there is a feedback box that requires all fields to be filled out: "What was inspiring about of the article?" "What could be imporved?" and this way, the word count could be met, it is optional, and it requires effort to get into in the first place.

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I adore this idea. With anvilites like Dr. Serukis who work so hard to give feedback constantly simply out of the kindness of their hearts, it would be nice to see such hard work rewarded.

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I too agree that we should help some of the lesser-known creators of WorldAnvil get noticed. As was mentioned by Toblin, I say we maybe shouldn't let Freemen use this feature so as to prevent the potential usage of Bots. (Granted, I'm sure there's a bunch of other things that should be considered with this, but I ain't a scientician)

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In my opinion this will be too easily abused and reinforcing system that I don't think is necessary in the first place (coins).

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This is a good idea. The accrual of coins could be weighted depending on the tier of subscription and / or each like could be worth a partial coin (e.g. 0.10 of a coin for shorter comments and 0.25 of a coin for longer comments. There could be a formula to figure this by multiplying tier by comment weight. Just a thought. :)

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This definitely seems like it would be a wonderful feature! I often come across articles that I think are fantastic, but I know they probably won't see much interaction from others because the author of the article is new or relatively unknown on World Anvil. Hopefully this becomes a reality!

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I think this would definitely help broaden the names showing up at the top of the competition lists.   My only concern is the possibility of bot farming.

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AntimatterNuke put it in a way I find really agreeable, have it so the author of the article has to "Approve" the comment to have the system give the 5 coins. In addition, I think there should be a system in place that it gives you 15 (Maybe even 50) coins instead of the 5 if you put a comment on a world you have NEVER commented on before. This would boost people looking for new settings amazingly.   I might even say make Approved Commments give 10 coins and then New Setting Approved Comments give 60.

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Could potentially and easily be abused by comment spam bots, or just lead to non bot coin farmers who comment without reading just for coins.

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I'm in the same boat as Buzzard, I think this might damage the delecat community that worldanvil has and turn us into a souless social platform.

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I think this is a very good idea provided we have the correct risk mitigation controls such as a minimum character limit of words to ensure the comments left are meaningful to avoid comment farming. We would also need a few members to act as moderators

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I like the concept. I'm not too concerned with abuse (unless coins end up having some sort of monetary value or greater influence). I'd like to find a way to encourage commenting on articles that have not been viewed/commented on. I know I don't get many views, probably because I don't advertise. I was in one community ages ago that allowed a member to request critiques as a way of improving their work. Said articles were available in a separate list. Perhaps something like that could work.

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I think this is a well-meaning, but horrible idea. Incentivizing comments in this way is the path to creating a bunch of comment farmers. I'd prefer to get a few comments from folks that actually cared enough to read something rather than to get dozens of comments from folks just passing through for their 5 coins.

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I like the idea to reward interaction, but there really needs to be some mechanism to prevent abuse. Maybe getting a like on a comment could give you more coins than the act of posting it? However, we would also need some rules for who can like a comment - otherwise people could farm coins by having their bots/accomplices like every fake comment they post.

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I tentatively support the idea of rewarding positive interaction, but allowing free accounts is a big no for me. Not because I don't think they deserve it, but for the same reason MMOs limit what free accounts can do: botting.   If you can set up a free account to bot and get coins without any investment, then all you you have created with this is an unending stream of spam.   No free accounts, and you have my support.

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I like this idea, and share your concerns about the current likes-based shortlist system being too much of a popularity contest. If something like this was implemented, I'd want it to incentivize seeking out lesser-known worlds and worldbuilders, instead of most comments and activity clustering around the best-known settings.   Maybe points for commenting could be awarded only when the world author(s) approve the comment, preventing spam/low-effort comments, encouraging activity, and encouraging comments on less-known worlds whose authors may be more likely to take the time to read and approve every comment.   Or maybe the number of coins gained from comments is inversely proportional to the number of followers/comments in the world (or just comments in the article).

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This is a really fascinating idea! I am very interested in it. Incentivizing reading other peoples work is always a good idea I think

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I like this as a concept - it's really well thought out. As long as there was some way to report comments that are obviously spam or exploiting for coins, this could definitely up engagement.

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