Hi again, Ben, me and some of the devs talked about this last week, and it does seem like a potentially pretty smart idea. It was even suggested that the badges mechanic could help us over one of our most long-standing organisation hurdles - how to connect the services to each other without making the user experience cluttered and confusing.
If you had a page showing your badges, and showing all the badges you could get but hadn't got yet (and your friends badges), it could encourage people to explore right across the range of services we have. Definitely something we need to think seriously about in relation to FixMyTransport. Any ideas for awards, badge names, designs etc for things you could give people who use our current sites, or future ones? * Political Duck (House) - You've written to a politician for the first time ever! * On To Something - Someone has subscribed to follow an FOI request you made * Night in Shining Armour - 5 of the FixMyStreet problems you have reported have now been marked Fixed. tara, Tom On 10 August 2010 08:28, Ben Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > As a pie-in-the-sky idea for encouraging such crowd sourcing in a fun way, > I could imagine it being turned into a game, with achievements for meeting > various milestones... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > You've updated 2 dog foulings - just one more and you'll win a... > > *** DOUBLE-WHAMMY-DOG-POO-JACKPOT-BONUS!!! *** > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > (with an appropriate icon, of course ;-) > > Various awards by categories, awards for covering many geographic areas, > meta awards given out for achieving sets of other awards (eg at least one in > every category...) > > Actually, I'd probably turn it into a general service, usable and > extendible by any civic-hacking project that would benefit from it - I could > imagine a bunch of mySociety and like-minded sites using it - eg TWFY video > tagging, scenic-or-not style crowdsourcing, leaflet scanning for > straightchoice, contact-detail gathering for yournextmp, etc etc etc... > > Just make it really easy for other sites to define their awards and > scoring, and leave all the league tables and achievement browsing interface > to the central site. So any time you need to crank out a quick crowd > sourcing site, you've already got a lot of the reward/incentive system in > place... > > I'd look at the Xbox online achievement system (which I've not used) and > steal ideas from it mercilessly. > > Ben. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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