Intense Debate

I think it might be a good option to have referral capability in IDC. I'd love to see how many people have opened accounts on it because of me and I'm certain it might give a feeling of satisfaction to other IDC advocates as well.

Some way it could work:
1. People who comment on your site and use the "claim this comment" option, are automatically referred to the owner of the site.
2. Have a field during registration to IDC (either for normal user or for people registering their own blogs) that people can put in the alias of the person who referred or convinced them to try IDC.

People can then track both how many people they have referred and also how many sites have switched to IDC because of them. Thus I could see something like: "10 people joined and 3 sites Intensified because of Db0" in my profile.

I would also like this function to email me when someone joins IDC because of my referral. I can then go and give them the thumb's up.

Finally, and this is up to the IDC team, you could eventually have a rewards program for successful referrers, the details of which I'll leave to you. This is not necessary in any way but it always helps to sustain the interest of advocates.

From my personal opinion (if you care to listen) as a long time advocate of various stuff I like, I always find that it "energises" me to see how many people have listened to me :D

Would love to see smiley support as well as Gravatar/MyBlogLog support (I know Gravatar is coming soon...)

I see in the IDC blog that employees of ID have a special star on their name tab that displays "Intense Debate Official". I think it would be a good idea to expand on that.

My initial simple idea would be to have a star next to the names of the current blog admins. For collaborative blogs this would be neat.

However, I think there are other ways to add more of these somehow. For example they could act as badges where you gain one depending on how you are rated (A Smiley for funny, an exclamation mark for Insightful etc.)