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Thank you for the shout out! Glad to see that people care about quality and start constructive discussions.
If you open up a platform for everybody, you will get all kinds of levels of quality. I always thought that the curated "Top 7 of the week" and the top posts per tag do offer some measurement of quality, though. Good content will be shared, thus more engagement, thus more reads, reactions and comments, right? Even if it was just the millionth To-do list tutorial for the day, if it was an exceptionally good one, why not reward that? Gamification works, it just needs to be insanely fine-tuned in order to achieve what the platform wants - high amount of high quality content.
What about this: You do get streak badges (as in 8 weeks, 16 weeks, etc.), but they're tied to the articles being of good quality? For example, 4 "Top 7 of the week" posts in 4 weeks, or 8 top tag badges in 8 weeks? It would put high pressure on the quality level and make those streak badges a lot harder to achieve, encouraging consistency and quality?
Thanks for your comment! A combination of consistency in time plus high quality reminds me of some StackOverflow badges (like the "curious" ones I never got, as most of my questions got deleted as offtopic or attracting opionionated answers). Might be a good idea, while nothing for the mass and the aspiring newcomers.
But "top of the week" etc. still seems the best way to measure some sort of quality at least. Maybe they should consider reading time as well, so that just clicking on a spammy headline without at least scrolling halfway through the article content would not count as a view.
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Thank you for the shout out! Glad to see that people care about quality and start constructive discussions.
If you open up a platform for everybody, you will get all kinds of levels of quality. I always thought that the curated "Top 7 of the week" and the top posts per tag do offer some measurement of quality, though. Good content will be shared, thus more engagement, thus more reads, reactions and comments, right? Even if it was just the millionth To-do list tutorial for the day, if it was an exceptionally good one, why not reward that? Gamification works, it just needs to be insanely fine-tuned in order to achieve what the platform wants - high amount of high quality content.
What about this: You do get streak badges (as in 8 weeks, 16 weeks, etc.), but they're tied to the articles being of good quality? For example, 4 "Top 7 of the week" posts in 4 weeks, or 8 top tag badges in 8 weeks? It would put high pressure on the quality level and make those streak badges a lot harder to achieve, encouraging consistency and quality?
Thanks for your comment! A combination of consistency in time plus high quality reminds me of some StackOverflow badges (like the "curious" ones I never got, as most of my questions got deleted as offtopic or attracting opionionated answers). Might be a good idea, while nothing for the mass and the aspiring newcomers.
But "top of the week" etc. still seems the best way to measure some sort of quality at least. Maybe they should consider reading time as well, so that just clicking on a spammy headline without at least scrolling halfway through the article content would not count as a view.