I agree that the rep score doesn’t have a lot of value.
But I also think the things you nsme as an alternative are difficult to measure objectively.
You can measure the number of replies, but not the quality of them.
Initiatives are also hard to measure. And can you compare them?
Unfortunately I cannot come up with better ideas myself, but I'll think about it a bit more.
Maybe this could be brought up as a topic in one of tge podcasts.
Maybe your initiative could keep a tab of users that leave great comments. A score card of a kind.
But listen, I agree. This is not easy to think about about, hence why I'm putting it out there.
Our weekly report has the top 20 most upvoted Hivers. We upvote a lot of commemts, but there are also a lot we don't upvote.
All the different things together would make someone a great contributor to the chain.
I've slept a night over it and came up with and idea.
Maybe you could do something with a badge or maybe even multiple badges for people that contribute to the growth of Hive.
You could set up a diverse team that decides who should receive a badge.
You could measure all the things you mention in your post and 'the team' can nominate people who they think receives a badge.
And when a user stops being active or 'misbehaves', you could just remove the badge.
In PeakD the badges are shown next to your profile. I other interfaces they aren't (yet).
I do like the idea of having badges for this, for sure. Maybe talking with @arcange is a good start.
I see @arcange is a guest in the HIVE THRIVE podcast next week. Maybe a nice topic to discuss there too.
Oh yes, fo sho!