On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:50 AM, David Planella <[email protected]> wrote: > Not debating the goodness of badges here, but there are areas of > contribution where participants do care about karma, not as a single > value, but as a measure of the work they do in the area they care about. > > As an example, translators often follow the top contributors page and > take a pride in being there: > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+topcontributors
From the thousands translators (most of whom come and contribute 1-10 strings) only a very tiny fraction care about that page because only a tiny fraction gets the honor of appearing there. I'm on that list and I didn't even know that list existed. And I don't really care that much for it. But I can tell you one thing: even though I only answered a few questions on askubuntu.com, I FEEL A NEED to come by and see whether there's something new there (an answer got accepted, new answers or comments on my questions, etc?, my question god is a favorite of 10 people, I now have 195 points, a new badge for upvoting, a new badge for commenting, etc.) I have added askubuntu.com to my "banned" list of websites (chrome nanny) so I wouldn't waste time any more on this. > That does not necessarily mean that we encourage quantity over quality > (in Ubuntu, for example, we obviously do the contrary), but at least > people seem to be happy about karma in translations, and I'm sure in > other areas as well. > > Also this data is also useful in other sites to highlight good work in > different areas of contribution: > > http://hall-of-fame.ubuntu.com/ Again, very very few get there. By the time you get there you don't need these kinds of rewards. You have a reward in the work itself. What I'm talking about is a way to engage and catch in those users that otherwise might be just passers-by. I believe that hooking them in through a few of these meaningless rewards would keep some of these users more on LP. This is similar somewhat to the facebook water-your-crops, feed-your-cattle games. -- . ..: Lucian _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-translators More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
