Yeah, I'm not too sure about the gamification aspects. I've been on (and modded) forums where your user title changed depending on how many posts you've made (like "Newbie" would be 0-9 posts, "Testing the Waters" would be 10-25, etc), which is fine for a standalone forum. But if it's a forum that's meant to support something else (like a wiki), it might just encourage participation on the forum and not on the wiki itself! It might be something to consider anyway.
Do you happen to know what exactly do them mean by reaction buttons? If it's "Report spam/abuse," that's pretty common. I've been on a couple forums where you could also add "karma" to a user if you found a post of their particularly useful. If you accumulate a certain number of points, it allowed you access to locked/private subforums. (It was a way of measuring whether or not you were trustworthy.) But I'm not sure the latter is necessary here.
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Do you happen to know what exactly do them mean by reaction buttons? If it's "Report spam/abuse," that's pretty common. I've been on a couple forums where you could also add "karma" to a user if you found a post of their particularly useful. If you accumulate a certain number of points, it allowed you access to locked/private subforums. (It was a way of measuring whether or not you were trustworthy.) But I'm not sure the latter is necessary here.