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6. It’s called “website – responsive wordpress theme” by Kuba Sto.
http://themeforest.net/item/website-responsive-wordpress-theme/1739143

8. Just for fun – here’s one of my achievements: 😛
“If you are one of the rare few who can truly go the distance; if you are that person who through great adversity can just keep on generating content for the site, then one day you might find yourself writing your 13th blog post. The instant the post gets submitted you will hear a small, but distinct knocking at your door. Upon answering it a small, brown house elf will walk inside and present you with an ornate parchment. What will the parchment say? “Congratulations! You are now a Blogging High Poobah of Alliterative Alacrity, and your name will be celebrated in all the land.” The house elf will then spend the rest of its days following you around singing songs of your wonder to all who will listen. Blogging High Poobahs are also featured on a special bloggers page on the site. Because you will have earnt it.”

Gday Paul

Thanks for getting back to me!

1. Awesome (c)

2. I hear what you are saying that it would be missing the point to make it all about karma points, but right now the achievements sort in alpha order, and this makes it quite tricky to make the list of achievements compelling. The psychology of leveling up (to my mind at least) works better if the list starts with a lesser achievement and then notches up through to bigger achievements. Let me give you an example. Lets say i set up 3 rewards. a blog initiate at 1 post, a blog bandit at 3 posts and a blog crusader at 10 blogs. (whatever you get the idea 🙂 ). At the moment the list will sort down the page as blog bandit, blog crusader and blog initiate. It doesnt feel as compelling.

3. Massive yay. that would kick arse.

4. see point 3.

5. youre the genius making this stuff, so i gotta live with your vision. However i feel that the karma points would be incredibly effective psychologically if they either linked to a leaderboard concept (tapping into the ancient human impulse to compete) and/or to a earning points to get something cool concept (tapping into the equally ancient human impulse to acquire). Clearly I was not cut out to be a Buddhist monk! 🙂

6. Hmm ok. i can do regular post featured images though. it just doesnt appear for this plugin.

7. (new point). even if you ignore all my thoughts I still think youve created something marvellous. Its the best of the lot imho. Thanks for creating something so effective and fun.

Cheers!
Mark.