Timeline for Implement badges for sites themselves
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| Feb 23, 2014 at 3:45 | comment | added | jonsca | How about a Jonestown badge for the site with the most Peer Pressure badges? | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 3:15 | comment | added | Blue Ice | What if we had the badges be passed around and impermanent, so each site could compete for owning a badge for as long as possible, before it is given to a site that surpasses it in a category? | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:56 | answer | added | asheeshr | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:54 | comment | added | user50049 | Note, I re-tagged this as discussion, since this is not a baked idea, but designed to see if one could emerge that would be a suitable feature request. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:53 | history | edited | user50049 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:52 | comment | added | user50049 | @DennisMeng On a smaller scale, yes. These will be novel at first and sites will obviously work to try and earn them (that's the point), but as a bit of time passes, I don't think they'll cause people to behave much differently, but hopefully just motivate them to keep contributing as they normally do (just a bit more). | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:48 | comment | added | Dennis Meng | I guess then the question is, would you have been okay if something like Winter Bash was year-round? Since that seems to be the analogy here. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:44 | comment | added | user50049 | @DennisMeng Engagement is pretty hard to fake, we can see very easily how long new users stick around and at what point they lose interest. We've also recently deployed an extensive testing system that helps us ensure these are being awarded correctly. I'm not as much concerned about the badges being earned erroneously, but more about limiting disruptions that the gaming behavior sometimes causes. During Winter Bash, there's usually one or two incidents of people being obnoxious in effort to get a certain hat, but it's minimal. This would need to be the same. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:42 | answer | added | Blue Ice | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:38 | comment | added | Dennis Meng | The thing about this is that any such tag should only be added if we're completely sure that the site doesn't suffer from the gamification. The last thing we want is to make the site appear in good shape because of badges, but actually be rotting on the inside. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:34 | comment | added | user50049 | @Makoto It would only apply to up-voted answers, not questions. It might cause a few answers to get up-voted that might not otherwise, but they'd generally be down voted as well, if they were sub optimal. I'm not too worried about that one being gamed, because it'd be really hard to maintain a sustained effort to game it over a quarter or two. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:30 | comment | added | Makoto | Hmm. I quite like this idea. It expands the gamification to the sites themselves, giving users a reason to make the community a bit better. Now, I fear that a few of these badges (notably Speedy Gonzales as defined) may lead to a bunch of questions being inappropriately upvoted. | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:28 | answer | added | Joe | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 23, 2014 at 2:14 | history | asked | user50049 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |