Hi folks,

I'm thinking of adding a reputation system to a web application, the site is already being used so I'm trying to be careful about my choices.

I'm developing in Django/Python, thought this would be important.

Reputation is generated in all actions that contribute to the site, similar to Stackoverflow's system.

I know there are literally millions of ways of implementing this, and this is why I feel quite lost.

Two alternatives I am not sure about are:

• Keep track of reasons why reputation was incremented
• Ignore reasons in order to reduce complexity of the site and overhead

Would be happy with a few pointers, and directions. Would be very much appreciated!