To state the obvious, using the risk/reward frame above, I think just punishing people more for not doing their practice would result in far fewer great contributions to the site. But I think it’s very promising to reward people more for putting in very high levels of effortinto practice, by celebrating them and making their achievements legible and giving them prizes. I suspect that this could change the site culture substantially.
There was the issue with the babble challenges where I felt like effort was not being seen. “Not knowing which norms are materially important feels capricious.”. There is a difference between giving a prize to a valued act and giving valued acts prizes. While it was not a total unmitigated catastrophe I became wary and became suspicious of claims like “hey if you do X I will do Y”.
Yeah that seems fair. I gave feedback to Jacob at the time that his interpretation of the rules didn’t seem like the obvious one to me, and I think the ‘streak’ framing also meant that missing one week took you down to zero, which is super costly if it’s the primary success metric.
7⁄7 attendance and 6⁄7 success resulted in 5 stars. I think the idea was that high cost of missing out would utilise sunk cost to keep the activity going. I am not sur whether bending on rules made it closer to idela or would sticking by the lines and making a fail a full reset done better. Or even if the call between pass and fail was compromised by allowing “fail with reduced concequences”.
There was the issue with the babble challenges where I felt like effort was not being seen. “Not knowing which norms are materially important feels capricious.”. There is a difference between giving a prize to a valued act and giving valued acts prizes. While it was not a total unmitigated catastrophe I became wary and became suspicious of claims like “hey if you do X I will do Y”.
Yeah that seems fair. I gave feedback to Jacob at the time that his interpretation of the rules didn’t seem like the obvious one to me, and I think the ‘streak’ framing also meant that missing one week took you down to zero, which is super costly if it’s the primary success metric.
7⁄7 attendance and 6⁄7 success resulted in 5 stars. I think the idea was that high cost of missing out would utilise sunk cost to keep the activity going. I am not sur whether bending on rules made it closer to idela or would sticking by the lines and making a fail a full reset done better. Or even if the call between pass and fail was compromised by allowing “fail with reduced concequences”.