> El Sábado 11 de enero de 2014 3:50, Michael Hasselmann
> <[email protected]> escribió:
> > Hi,
>
> I dislike the gamification of what should be considered a commitment.
>
> Also, putting too much value on past contributions creates a
higher
> barrier for newcomers, as they will measure themselves with those who
> have been collecting badges for +5 years, especially if those badges are
> publicly visible.
>
> Reddit's Karma system is a great example of the kind of contributions we
> probably don't want in GNOME. There's rarely anything insightful in
> those one-liner comments that game the readers for upvotes.
>
> In short: We want to focus on future contributions and I don't see yet
> how gamification could help with that.
>
Hi Michael !
I think the opposite, the idea of using gamification is mainly for helping new
contributors to feel
integrated in our Community. The
first steps in GNOME can be hard and small rewards like badges can be a sort
of stimulus to keep contributing. Gamification is about accompany contributors
in the journey from novice to master.
I agree with you that we should avoid a competition of bagdes or something like
that. For example, I don't think it is good idea to tell a contributor is the
nth in the ranking of number of contributions. There are people contributing
for years and it is not a fair comparison.
We already have some sort of badge system in GNOME. To be a GNOME foundation
member, member of the board ,maintainer, git committer, member of a team can be
associated easily to a badge system.
Cheers,
-- Juanjo Marin
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