I do agree with you. What would have been a better incentive, or do you think the prior system was better?
Personally, it actually motivated me to be a bit more active and finish my post. But I have also noticed a bit of “farming” for points (which was very much a consideration I’m sure, hence “good heart token”).
I think the reason it appealed to me was that the feedback mechanism was tangible and (somewhat) immediate. Contrast that with, say, pure upvotes, which feel non-impactful to me.
I think an incentive is good, but one that is less than pure dollar values and more than ego-filling-warm-fuzzy-feeling upvotes.
I am here from the future with an urgent message: this incentivized a lot of posts that were kind of shit.
If it was urgent, why would you come back and say that at the end of the week rather than the beginning? There’s not much we can do about it now.
I mean, he couldn’t really have been from the future then, could he?
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I do agree with you. What would have been a better incentive, or do you think the prior system was better?
Personally, it actually motivated me to be a bit more active and finish my post. But I have also noticed a bit of “farming” for points (which was very much a consideration I’m sure, hence “good heart token”).
I think the reason it appealed to me was that the feedback mechanism was tangible and (somewhat) immediate. Contrast that with, say, pure upvotes, which feel non-impactful to me.
I think an incentive is good, but one that is less than pure dollar values and more than ego-filling-warm-fuzzy-feeling upvotes.