Contributor rank

Contributor rank is a scoring system for rewarding users who make meaningful contributions and punishing bots and users who contribute spam and low effort, incorrect information. Contributor ranks range from 0 to 100, with 0 being the worst and 100 being the best.

Once a user meets the minimum level and account age requirements to make contributions, they are assigned an initial contributor rank of 50.

Actions affecting rank
Contributions increase contributor rank upon moderator approval, and decrease contributor rank upon rejection.

The following actions decrease contributor rank immediately:


 * Reporting other users excessively
 * Reporting files excessively
 * Punishment from being reported by other users

Permissions affected by rank
Users have a limited number of pending contributions by type according to their contribution rank. Once a user has reached their allotted limit of a type, they may submit no further contributions of that type until the number of pending contributions of that type has fallen below their limit (i.e. by a moderator approving/rejecting their pending contributions).

A higher contribution rank can raise or remove these limits entirely, and a lower contribution rank can lower these limits or remove permissions entirely.

Users who reach a low enough contributor rank that submit a rejected contribution automatically have the remainder of their pending contributions deleted and receive a temporary ban from further contributions.

Table of permission limits
TBD

Rewards
In addition to the regular rewards for each individual approval, users receive these rewards for maintaining their contribution rank.

a badge probably

maybe cosmetics