The biggest issue so far that Gather.com faced/es is an economics/human behavior issue. Incentives do strange things to user behavior. Gather uses a point system to incent people to public articles. You get more points if the article you published is popular - rated high, highly trafficed, highly commented upon. This does all kinds of things to people's behavior. High quality, high intergrity articles published by bloggers may get neglected because they are high quality and require thought. A blog entry like "Funny words that begin with S" can get 100 comments on the article and earn the blogger alot of points. There is a rating system 1-10 for articles as well. This also introduces interesting human behavior reactions that I could go into offline. The point is that when you create an incentive program - be care how its constructed.
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Jared M. Spool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On May 9, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Timothy Makoid wrote: > > > > I am a student majoring in Information Systems with a concentration in > > > HCI/ID/UX/HF. I'm working on my final project and we are designing a small > > > scale social networking site. Were trying to come up with a sort of gaming > > > system that encourages the users to interact with each other and the site. > > > There are a couple ways to earn points: by taking quizzes based on > > > stories, > > > by sending different forms of greetings to each other, and by setting up > > > goals for each other and achieving them.(Thats what we have currently). > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
