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Disclaimer: replying as a user and not as a moderator. I really can't get behind this for an abundance of reasons. The main one being: You shouldn't need to give out rewards for people doing the right thing. When you start giving out incentives for people to report rule-breaking, it's no longer something you should do because you want to help out the site, it's now just a reason for you to get something out of it. One of the comments that you made doesn't sit well with me at all. Yes, users are here to help us with reports. We're are not omnipresent and as such, we do not have active knowledge of someone breaking the rules unless a. We happen to come across it ourselves or b. Another user reports the instance of rule breaking. But, this comment reads off to me as being very entitled. Just because you help someone out doesn't really mean you deserve to get anything. If I can interject with a real world application of this: in the United States, I often see the problem of people refusing to help one another because they're not going to get anything out of it. This, in all honesty, is a sickening mindset that I really don't want on our site When you help someone out, the joy and pride you feel by doing something right and knowing that you did a good thing by helping out others should be your motivation- not items and definitely not currency. The pleasant feelings given to us by our good deeds last longer than a monetary reward. If we implemented this, how long do you think it would take before users decided that their current 'prize' wasn't enough? What if they want more because they feel they caught a "more serious" rule breaker or feel like that have submitted more reports than the average user? Programs where you offer rewards to do simple tasks that you already should be doing are prone to failure. People will often make things up just to attempt to receive rewards for it. Frankly, we already have enough legitimate reports and site issues to handle, I really don't think we need to be flooded with fake ones either. Plus, how would the reward be generated? Would it be automatically given out by Sally when you submit your report? Would a moderator need to send it to you if we feel your report is an actual issue? If I can be honest for a moment, I really don't want to be saddled with the responsibility of handing out prizes for people doing the things they're supposed to be doing in the first place. I'm getting anxious just thinking about trying to handle a report and having a user pester me for a prize because they didn't receive it immediately or it wasn't what they were wanting. PFQ is a community of users who all interact with each other. As a community we have obligations to one another to help keep PFQ safe and ensure the wellbeing of all players. Basically, we're a family and we look out for each other. This includes reporting other users when they're breaking the rules. If we start offering prizes for reports, people could potentially stop reporting because the prize isn't good enough for them and could hold important information hostage (in the case of more serious reports) until we offered them something that they deemed worthy enough to give their information to you for. Or we could have users teaming up with each other to break the rules and split the rewards, especially if it was high enough. Both of these scenarios are unacceptable displays of behavior that this suggestion could potentially bring with it. Hopefully my points make sense, if they don't, feel free to respond and I'll try to explain them in more detail. I just woke up and Mr. Brain is giving me a bit of trouble :P