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It depends on whether you want your users to compete against each other or not. Take in example reddit trying to avoid becoming digg and hacker news trying to
by wortiz 16y ago
It depends on whether you want your users to compete against each other or not.
Take in example reddit trying to avoid becoming digg and hacker news trying to avoid becoming reddit, what is everyone trying to avoid? Competition for points and essentially leaderboards.
However for something like games leaderboards are essential as they can provide an incentive to keep playing.
- derefr 16y agoA qualification: > However for something like games leaderboards are essential as they can provide an incentive for achievement-oriented players to keep playing. Leaderboards will do nothing for other types of players, and may actively repel some (explorers who are given too "transparent" a view into the system through an itemized leaderboard score.)
- jeff18 16y agoHackerNews has leaderboards though. http://news.ycombinator.com/lists http://news.ycombinator.com/lists
- hugh3 16y agoThough interestingly there's no longer a link to the leaderboard on the top bar.