Enhance the site so that visitors can directly interact with it or among each other, enabling things like user-generated content, comments, voting, chat, or forms for data collection and interaction.
The User Activity module calculates an activity index based on a user's logins, page impressions, created nodes and comments.
The weight for each value is adjustable by an administrator.
It provides an activity-o-meter on the user's profile page, a block with the most active users and an overview page of users sorted by activity.
This module allows people to give good or bad karma, based on their comments on the web site. It's fully configurable, comments can be buried if their karma is too low, user roles can change according to user's karma values, and so on. It all works through (fully degradable) Javascript/Ajax.
NOTE: this module is now obsolete. It is replaced by Extra Voting Forms and User Karma, which are derived from simple_karma but are based on the fantastic VotingAPI (which means you can use "views" with them).