Recognition that members can see
People keep showing up where their effort is seen. Reputation makes that effort visible. Members earn it from the things that help a community: upvotes on their topics and replies, and having a reply accepted as the answer to a question. Downvotes and moderator removals pull it back down, so the score reflects real contribution, not just volume.
The score is not fixed. Every point value is a default you can change in the plugin settings, so you decide what your community rewards most. If accepted answers matter more to you than upvotes, weight them higher. The numbers update in real time, the moment a member earns or loses a point, with no cache delay between contributing and seeing it count.
A leaderboard worth climbing
The community leaderboard ranks members by total reputation, highest first, and anyone can view it. The top three positions get gold, silver, and bronze medals, which draw the eye the instant someone opens the page. Being in the top three is a genuine, visible achievement, and members close to moving up a rank are the most motivated of all.
You can scope the board with period filters for all time, this month, and this week, so recently active members get their moment instead of being permanently buried under long-tenured veterans. And when you want recognition off the main page, the leaderboard widget drops a compact top-members list into any sidebar.
Reputation that powers your community
The leaderboard is the visible half. The quiet half is what reputation unlocks. The same score that ranks members also feeds Jetonomy’s trust levels, the system that decides what a member can do. As members earn reputation, they qualify for higher trust, and higher trust grants more abilities automatically, from creating spaces to moderating content.
That is the whole loop: members contribute, they earn reputation, they rise on the board, and they grow into more capable roles without you assigning a thing. Recognition and responsibility move together, so the people carrying your community are exactly the ones who get the credit and the keys.