Contributor Recognition
zzap opened this issue · 3 comments
We thought it would be a good idea to add some gamification logic to Helphub contribution.
Having a visual (graphic badges ?) or even abstract (number of upvotes ?) way of symbolizing a contributor involvement could be a friendly motivation for users.
- How would we symbolize this recognition ?
- Is it an automatic recognition based on a number of articles/comments written, or does it depend on visitors interaction (upvote / like system) ?
- How and where should we display the user recognition data ? After every occurence of an username, or only on a user profile ?
There have been many discussions previously on adding gamification to various w.org projects, forums by way of voting up and down topics and/or answers, translations by way of adding badges and displaying the number of translations for translators on their profiles, each of these proposals have been rejected.
To highlight one of Otto's comments on w.org and gamification:
https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02QB8GMM/p1493912193844037
"This sort of exemplifies my objections to badges originally. When you use gamification on something, then people want to play the game. But this isn't a game, they're there to show what people have done and how they have contributed, not to entice people into contributing in order to catch-em-all"
There are many more discussions on WP Slack on this subject, just search for gamification.
I'm +1 on closing this issue as it is highly unlikely to be approved for implementation.
I agree that intentionally gamifying HelpHub is asking for trouble where you already have tons of spam on the forums and reviews, and plugin and theme authors trying to get traffic. If contributions have an incentive, they are suspect.
Closing this issue as there's no interest and we probably won't do it.