I agree that with the diversity of sites it might be a challenge to abstract out a solution that could be applied across as many types of social DNN sites as possible. I have a pretty good module developer who has built some complex dnn modules for custom applications. Maybe this is an area I should investigate for a public module.
I went to
http://gamification.com/ and followed a few of their articles to other sites. I downloaded a white paper from
http://bunchball.com and hope to get some ideas from there.
I might be interested in investigating any current solutions such as the ones you mentioned that are using Active Social. Can you point to any of those? I might look at a temporary solution for my Seed Membership launch and then other options after the Charter Membership launch.
I did check out the DotNeNuke site and looked that the Community Recognition area. It was cool to see myself between David O and Tony Valenti for lifetime points. I wish I could get some credit for the roughly 600 posts I had on the old asp.net forums.