Seconding Elo; this “badge” thing sounds unfortunate and I don’t want it. Private “achievements” also seem bad (for different reasons).
Edit: I do agree with this:
90% of the best content for most users, is older than 6 months. And that content discovery and scholarship should become a core aspect of the site. I expect that in the long-run we will focus quite a bit of our efforts on allowing users to discover old content, and help them learn the content in the canon, and generally focus on a bunch of scholarship-based features.
But I think that gamification / badges / achievements / nagging / obtrusive, unremovable UI elements / etc., are just not the way to go about this.
Seconding Elo; this “badge” thing sounds unfortunate and I don’t want it. Private “achievements” also seem bad (for different reasons).
Edit: I do agree with this:
But I think that gamification / badges / achievements / nagging / obtrusive, unremovable UI elements / etc., are just not the way to go about this.