Re: Discourse usability
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:23:30 +0200
Martin <debacle@debian.org> wrote:
> - Badges. "Earned 'First Emoji'", "Earned 'Anniversary'". Is it only
> me? But I feel devalued and belittled by gamification.
No, it is not only you that dislikes them. I feel they are a
distraction and I think many in our community struggle to overcome
distractions enough anyway!
What's worse, many seem to reward odd things: do we really need to
encourage emoji use? I guess there are or could be badges for actions
that we want to encourage, like providing good answers or contributing
to bugfixes, but whoever created the defaults didn't want anyone to feel
left out so they included some silly ones that are easy to get - and
then most site operators never change the defaults.
And to comment on another of the drawbacks, I'm also concerned that you
can't easily store good discussions and that email users have to visit
the site to see the full content.
Hope that explains,
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MJR http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
Member of http://www.software.coop/ (but this email is my personal view
only)
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