chiefGui If the feature isn't something you can invest your time thinking, could you explain why? Old school platforms, such as phpBB and even IPB, were glorified by their posting mechanisms.
As Auk mentioned, this is indeed something that has been discussed at length here. I'd hunt down a link or two for you, but I haven't had my morning coffee yet, so you're on your own. 😉
From those discussions, I got the sense that many members of this community are not very interested in gamification schemes, because they tend to boost post quantity at the expense of post quality. But there are certainly dissidents who will end up providing a third party extensions with gamification in mind, and they're welcome to do so. That's the beauty of using an extensible platform.