[Phalynx]

Thanks for the flowers. Indeed I created that mod to achieve exactly what you described - to encourage users to be more active. The main visual "punch line" is visible for everyone in the postbit - the center of every discussion. The first bar displays how advanced a user is, the second one is really secondary and can be hide as it is only interesting for the user self, last but not least the last bar shows the users activity in relation to others.

Espacially in combination with vBulletin 3.7 there are a few more interesting extensions like social groups, real friends an not unconfirmed buddies, visitor messages, tags, etc...

To accomplish the more visible thing I created also the promotion system. By reaching defined xperience points the user will be moved to another usergroup - where you can set graphics, shadows, highlighting, etc... What is interesting in combination with this: you can give the user more possibilities f.e. larger avatars or bigger PM box.