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In terms of game mechanics, badges != leaderboards. Your system might have worked better without the leaderboard, but with the badges?
by petervandijck 16y ago
In terms of game mechanics, badges != leaderboards.
Your system might have worked better without the leaderboard, but with the badges?
- teamonkey 16y agoPerhaps, but I suspect the main issue would remain: the same people would always have the same badges, just because that's how they worked or that's what their job entailed.
- petervandijck 16y agoThink about stackoverflow badges. It's more about getting individual users engaged, less about comparing users with each other. It's about making filing bugs more fun, which should result in more testing being done by more people. This link explains this better: http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/people/reputation/achievements.html http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/people/reputatio... It's not about comparing yourself against others.