Karma and other gamification instruments are apparently available as a 
plugin. https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-gamification/225916

On Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 12:47:48 AM UTC-7 Sébastien Labbé wrote:

> On Monday, July 1, 2024 at 10:41:35 PM UTC+2 Matthias Koeppe wrote:
>
>
> I share the same skepticism about using GitHub Discussions. 
> But Discourse would be a direct replacement for AskBot; it is widely used 
> with the same user-facing, not developer-centric, role.
>
>
> I checked Discourse Group yesterday [https://www.discourse.org/features]. 
> It seems to be a nice tool that many persons may like. I see it as a kind 
> of sagemath related social network. I believe that people may use it to 
> share stuff that they create, etc, maybe also for asking questions. But, it 
> does not seem to be a "question based" website as it is currently the case 
> for ask.sagemath.org. I am worried that questions asked there will get 
> buried in the noise. Also who will care to answer questions on a daily 
> basis? I frankly believe that the Karma on ask.sagemath.org works. On 
> ask, if I personnaly want more Karma, which I do, I need to be the first to 
> give an answer and it needs to be a good answer, etc. I don't feel this 
> will happen on discourse.
>
> To summarize, I think Discourse looks great. I think it could be a nice 
> way of developing a new community of SageMath users (in the spirit of 
> http://planet.sagemath.org/?). But I don't think it may be a replacement 
> for ask.sagemath.org or zulip.sagemath.org. Discourse, zulip and ask are 
> three different things that are not meant to replace one another.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sébastien Labbé
>   
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"sage-devel" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/68dd0e81-2763-4fa9-a798-0b64d288412cn%40googlegroups.com.

Reply via email to