Love this idea. Gamify constructive criticism! This is one of the friendliest communities I've seen. The work you're doing is paying off. Keep up the good work, staff! ☀️
It would seem that the act of sharing such a constructive comment in and by itself has been rewarding enough so far.
Curious to see if this'll lead to any shift in comment content or quality, and whether we might see some sort of "changing of the guards" with comment authors.
@ben If at all possible, it'd be cool if you could share some numbers on this in a month or so!
Yeah, we could definitely share something 😁. We don't know scientifically what improvements will happen, and it will be hard to isolate variables — but I like the idea of digging in and sharing whatever the most relevant results we can come up with are in a month or so.
Back in the phpBB forum days I've seen the addition of karma systems result in large shifts of active contributors more than once. Recalling those times prompted my ask :)
The karma feature those boards added appeared to have been enough of an incentive for some "lurkers" or more quiet members to crawl out of their shell and start participating, but then also it caused some of the regulars to leave (which could be attributable to the addition of this carrot-on-a-stick, the sudden change in people/content, or an infinite amount of other things).
In most cases the communities ended up neither better or worse than before, but rather they simply changed or evolved into some sort of new rendition of themselves.
I've seen this before too. People hunting for likes or points without actually contributing much except for overly positive comments. Which is better than nothing IMO.
There's a balance to it, but so far what I've seen here it's not a problem.
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Love this idea. Gamify constructive criticism! This is one of the friendliest communities I've seen. The work you're doing is paying off. Keep up the good work, staff! ☀️
It would seem that the act of sharing such a constructive comment in and by itself has been rewarding enough so far.
Curious to see if this'll lead to any shift in comment content or quality, and whether we might see some sort of "changing of the guards" with comment authors.
@ben If at all possible, it'd be cool if you could share some numbers on this in a month or so!
Yeah, we could definitely share something 😁. We don't know scientifically what improvements will happen, and it will be hard to isolate variables — but I like the idea of digging in and sharing whatever the most relevant results we can come up with are in a month or so.
Back in the phpBB forum days I've seen the addition of karma systems result in large shifts of active contributors more than once. Recalling those times prompted my ask :)
The karma feature those boards added appeared to have been enough of an incentive for some "lurkers" or more quiet members to crawl out of their shell and start participating, but then also it caused some of the regulars to leave (which could be attributable to the addition of this carrot-on-a-stick, the sudden change in people/content, or an infinite amount of other things).
In most cases the communities ended up neither better or worse than before, but rather they simply changed or evolved into some sort of new rendition of themselves.
I've seen this before too. People hunting for likes or points without actually contributing much except for overly positive comments. Which is better than nothing IMO.
There's a balance to it, but so far what I've seen here it's not a problem.