On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Those of you who have contributed to Stack Exchange sites like > askubuntu.com or stackoverflow.com may have noticed how little things > like badges and notifications when new points unlock new > functionalities bring users back and provide an incentive by > themselves to contribute. This is similar to the "need" to finish a > game level even though it's 3AM and you have to go work in the > morning.
Its not all that similar. http://www.hideandseek.net/cant-play-wont-play/. Speaking as a long time gamer, the badges and notifications that many sites are doing are plain boring. Particularly if I'm just proving in a new context something I already have the skill to do: set me an exam and lets bypass all the nonsense. > Launchpad has something of this kind: the karma counter, but this is a > static, silent mechanism and does not engage the user as much, whereas > SE sites make sure to notify the user and congratulate him a lot for > the first contributions, phasing them out as the user receives more > and more points for more and more contributions. > > In Launchpad translations users could get badges for: > * first 1 translation suggestion > * first 10 translation suggestions > * first 1 accepted translation suggestion > * first 10 accepted translation suggestions > * completing 10% of a packages's translation > * completing a packages's translation > * rewriting 10 old translations > * being accepted in the QA team for a language > * etc. > > > This is not Launchpad Translations specific and can be implemented for > Launchpad Bugs and other submodules. > > Any thoughts on this? We want to be sure that we encourage high quality contributions, not numerous contributions. One of the reasons karma is a restrained thing is for this reason: we don't want folk to do lots of actions-for-the-sake-of-karma : in fact, we regularly have to speak with abusers and sometimes disable accounts where folk are doing this. I think its more important to get spammer and amok-user prevention heuristics in place before considering badges or other artificial feedback mechanisms. -Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
