There's a feature for making awards and giving them to users in the Pro version (we call them Medals)

That system's due for an overhaul in v1.1 as well, when it'll be able to give the same award to the same user multiple times.
Glad to hear the problem has been solved, in the next version we'll take care of the Activity formula problem, which should bring this mod out of Beta.
Btw, could you leave the Slow Query Log on overnight, so that it can log the "Daily Points" Cron job?
I worry that that's a performance hit, and you're the only big-board user I know of
Thanks in advance
Fillip