On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:23:30 +0200 Martin <deba...@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, -- MJR http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ Member of http://www.software.coop/ (but this email is my personal view only)
