People who register on the site and put content up wil receive points for everything they do. Submitting a link to another site is worth a point. Submitting a news article/story is worth 2. And so on. Points are set by the editor and are not negotiable, but they are assigned in an automated fashion. If we unpublish your article, your points for that article go away.

The long term plan is to make these points redeemable for something. This will be things like an Uppity Wisconsin T-shirt, or a bumper sticker, or credit at Amazon. That part of the plan is still in the works, although it's not much of a problem until people start contributing more.