Would you be willing to pay $1 to be able to throw 10 pieces of monkey shit at comments / posts (reducing the author's bananas)?

GoodBread:

Maybe you just get one toss a day. But before said toss is actually performed, four other monkeys need to approve it (at no cost in tosses to them). if your toss doesn't get approved, you get your doodoo back and can try again the next day. That way, stupid monkeys don't get to throw at smart ones, because the good ones are protected by the other monkeys. Stupid monkeys realize they just wasted a dollar and stop throwing crap around while the smart monkeys can snipe them because of the support they enjoy.

I've clearly lost my mind, but I like the silver banana idea.

That is so ridiculously over the top and difficult to use.

I think the idea of giving one a day is fine. Also, I think it's probably going to be easier to charge for silver stars than monkey shit. When someone comes here and gets quality advice, good resume feedback, or the answer to a specific problem, they probably value that at more than a $1, and would be happy to give a star to whoever and a dollar to WSO for facilitating the transaction. As for throwing poo at people, I don't want to waste my time with posts that are not interesting or helpful.

CompBanker:

Honestly, I don't foresee charging for silver stars as logical. I don't think people would pay money to be able to give stars -- though I do think they would pay to throw monkey crap.

As for how many bananas to subtract, I'd vote 5. 10 is an awful lot to take away from someone who does not contribute regularly. Also, someone who makes 9 good posts and 1 bad posts would net out at 0, which is a bit rough. I wouldn't want to see users dis-incentivized from posting due to the risk of losing bananas.

On an unrelated note, I think you need to add a couple of additional levels past Hong Kong. Maybe 1,500 and 2,500? The site has been around long enough you've got too many people at the top!

I have been bouncing the idea of WSO credits with my developer. Basically, WSO credits would be a currency where you can get discounts on the Guides, WSO Resume Review, GMAT Prep, etc.

Any time a user purchases one of the services/products with credits they would get ~10-20% off but would likely have some WSO credits left over that they could use to throw monkey shit or award silver bananas (i think some people would reward silver bananas if they got great advice on here as a thank you, especially if the effective price is between a nickel and a dime). Plus, maybe the mods and Certified Users will also have the power to give out Silver bananas / monkey shit....haven't hashed all this out but I think it could work. Maybe I allocate 100 WSO credits to all the Cert Users and mods to start and see what develops. Maybe a silver banana = +5 user points and a monkey shit = -2 or something like that.

We plan to give out a lot of the credits for free to the best users get things rolling once we implement this.

thanks for the thoughts, Patrick

CompBanker:

Patrick,

Any thoughts on expanding the tier system for users beyond 1,000 banana points? I'd love a higher cap as an incentive not only to post, but to avoid getting monkey shit thrown at me.

absolutely...difficulty is that King Kong sounds so awesome, how do you top that? Which of these do you like better?

1. Human (at 2,000 bananas)
2. Homo Sapien (at 2,000 bananas)

or we could introduce an entirely more senior structure above King Kong that goes like this:

Chimp Sn Chimp Monkey Sr Monkey Baboon Sr Baboon Orangutan Sr Orangutan Gorilla Sr Gorilla King Kong H. Habilis (2,000 bananas) H. Erectus (4,000 bananas) H. Neanderthal (6,000 bananas) Human (10,000 bananas)

thoughts?

[quote=WallStreetOasis.com]WSO Credits, Monkey Shit and Silver Bananas are here...the theme is a bit messed up but it should all work mechanically. I will make a bigger announcement in the next few days once we make sure all of the issues are ironed out.

To learn more, go here: //www.wallstreetoasis.com/wso-credits[/quote]

They seem to be working fairly well; one thing that I think would be cool (maybe down the line) would be a graphic or something - sound effects are probably a no-no, but I think it'd be satisfying to see monkey shit splatter against the user's avatar or something.

Great work though, this is an awesome new feature!