5. The method as recited in claim 1 , in which said points comprise a weighting factor in which said weighting factor is at least, in part, determined by a subject matter expertise of said editor.
1. A computer implemented method for motivating community members to work with content editors to improve and add to editorially-controlled content, wherein a program stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium instructs a processor to perform the method comprising the steps of: submitting to a computer at least one comment regarding an editorially-controlled content to be published with said editorially-controlled content, said published comment being authored by a contributing member of an online community, wherein said published comment is operable to motivate community evolvement toward the evolution and improvement of said editorially-controlled content; a computer generating a rating of said published comment, said rating being determined at least based upon inputs received from one reviewing member of said online community, wherein said computer generated rating is further based on the number of times or length of time said published comment was viewed; a computer assigning points within a predefined range for ratings of said published comment that exceeds a predetermined level, said points being assigned to said contributing member by an editor of said online community in which said points identify subject matter expertise for said contributing member based on a demonstrated knowledge of said contributing member, wherein said computer generated ratings is thereby operable to lessen the work required by said editor and instead utilize members of said online community to identify comments that warrant a review; and a computer assigning awarded points to a contributing member, in which said awarded points received by said contributing member comprise said points capped by a maximum number assigned to said editorially-controlled content, wherein said points earned by said member beyond said capped points for said content is not awarded and recognized to limit points earned by said contributing member.