Looking around at PropPress for ways to navigate & explore (away from the extremely terse homepage), I see beneath 2 1/2 years of monthly archives;
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That's emblematic. Improve PropsPress? It's conceived & designed to be 'nothing'. Make it something. Just let it give and be something. Anything ...

Payne says the idea is more for recognition and encouragement than for competition. He has reservations about adding too much gamification.

OK ... Earth to Major Tom. Gamification philosophy or phobia is a game. People who proclaim, "Oh, but we don't make a game out of it!" ... are gamin' themselves.

If person X is a newbie at Core and needs to keep her head down ... then maybe she ought to find an extracurricular activity more in-keeping with her actual status in the social context she has chosen to join & work within.

Like what - we're going to scroll through 4,131 hairless, odorless 'props', to admire the work done at Trac? We can let the server logs speak to that.
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Trac and the rabbit-shaming Population Bomb of similar products are both a godsend to projects like WordPress, and their own worst enemy.

The potential and the problems that Trac etc brings to the game are not a matter that projects like PropsPress can address.

... But a 'safe' enhancement to the existing site would be a nice tutorial on IFTTT, and how it might be put to good use ... since that is evidently what PropsPress is really about. And please, easy on the statistics