Re: [UG-ADMINS] Karma System

The first section was to Beth, and my question at the end was for Paulo.

Thanks again for listening.

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Tessa Mero <[email protected]> wrote:

> Beth, you bring up a great concern, and I immediately imagined a
> workaround for that issue.
>
> What if each member starts out at a level:
>
> (imaginary group levels)
>
>    - New Community Member
>    - Frequent Community Member
>    - Senior Community Member
>
> Then, each group can have it's own set of ways to earn points: (and again,
> this is something I just made up as an example)
>
>    - New Community Member
>       - Ask a question [1 pt]
>       - Reply to a post [0.5 pt]
>       - Write about something interesting you read in Web Development [1
>       pt]
>       - Connect with a PHP mentor [3 pt]
>       - Log in each day  [0.1 pt]
>       - Frequent Community Member
>       - Right a blog post [2 pt]
>       - Assist with someones question [1 pt]
>       - Log in each day  [0.1 pt]
>       - Senior Community Member
>       - Assist with someones question [1 pt]
>       - Speak at a conf [1 pt]
>       - Attend a conf [1 pt]
>       - Set up to mentor a new community member [3 pt]
>       - Log in each day  [0.1 pt]
>
> *Thinking deeper: *
>
> What if these points added up and gave you "upgraded" icons? Let's say,
> 100 points earn's you an upgraded icon, let's call it a "Star". 2 star at
> 200 points, 3 starts at 300 points.
> The purpose of the stars (whatever icons) is to be able to "hold onto" the
> reputation you've earned, if there is a case where you can "spend" your
> points on donated prizes.
>
> Alternatively, rather than spending points or earning stars, you can earn
> "titles" and be displayed on a scoreboard system or the "homepage" of
> wherever this system will take place.
>
>
> *Question: *
>
> How will you determine all the community members? Would we have to grit
> our teeth trying to get everyone to register for the new web application? I
> guess that's a good start to see who's actually "active". :-)
>
>
> Just throwing out some thoughts. ;-)
>
>
>
> Tessa Mero
>
> PS - I'm not involved in this gamification process at all, just taking
> interest in the subject.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Elizabeth Tucker Long <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Paulo,
>>     I can see how this information may be beneficial to organizers, but
>> from a member's point of view, it seems like it is making UG membership
>> into a scoreboard where your worth to the group is publicly displayed. I
>> can only see this as something that would hurt the group. People who have
>> lots of free time are more able to rack up the points, and now someone who
>> is more busy or is a newer programmer (so they are not ready to contribute
>> by speaking, programming, etc.) is now discounted as someone who is
>> not-as-important. Also, how would new members ever be able to catch up to
>> people who had been in the group longer?
>>     I'm all for letting UGs work on projects that they find useful for
>> their specific use cases, but I feel that this project would only be
>> divisive and does not foster a welcoming environment for many types of
>> attendees.
>> Beth
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/27/15 2:12 PM, Paulo Eduardo wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all, how are you?
>>>
>>> A few months ago, someone here on the mailing list ask about a badge
>>> system
>>> to gamefy experience of the communities members, last saturday i talked
>>> with Cal Evans at PHP Experience (a PHP Conference at São Paulo) about a
>>> Karma system that we at PHPSP are thinking about, so he asked me to send
>>> an
>>> e-mail here explaining the idea.
>>>
>>> But first let me tell a bit more about the motivations of the idea, a few
>>> of you may already know that PHPSP is the São Paulo User Group, and here
>>> we
>>> try to take decisions all together, something close to a democracy where
>>> every active member have a voice on the community and can vote on
>>> importante topics
>>>
>>> The problem is that is a little difficult to define "active member", só
>>> we
>>> thought about a karma system where the member can earn points of
>>> participation in differente types of activities on the User Group, things
>>> like:
>>>
>>>     - Attende at an event
>>>     - Talk at an event
>>>     - Contribute on open source projects of the group
>>>     - Create content for the UG blog
>>>     - and so on....
>>>
>>> So by doing any of those activities, the member will earn a predefined
>>> number of points, and the total ammount of points the member has could
>>> lead
>>> to some benefits such as:
>>>
>>>     - Discounts in events
>>>     - Badges
>>>     - Vote right
>>>     - Freebies like T-shirst and stickers
>>>     - Admim privileges at social networks
>>>     - and so on....
>>>
>>> But the opposite is also true, the meber who spent a little while without
>>> make any contributions to the communitie will also loose some points.
>>> This
>>> way we think we can put in numbers what is in fact being an "active
>>> member".
>>>
>>> So the point of all this is that we was willing to make this system by
>>> ourselfs at PHPSP, but this could became much better if the communities
>>> all
>>> over the world want to make a big one. So what do you think folks? Is it
>>> a
>>> good idea? are you willing to make it happen?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot and sorry for the huge post.
>>> Paulo Eduardo
>>> www.pauloeduardo.com
>>> www.psyco.com.br
>>>
>>>
>>
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