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Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

when a user expects a full reward either due to your own advertising or because of what your competitors are advertising, giving them a Collection Set piece can sometimes backfire and end up insulting that user.

Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

(Often times this could be seen if the gamified system has a no-brainer dominant strategy95, which falls under Choice Perception.)

Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

Companies that exploit our gameplaying compulsion will have an edge over those who don’t, so every company that wishes to compete must gamify in ever more addictive ways, even though in the long term this harms everyone.

First: choose long-term goals over short-term ones. Short, frequent feedback loops offer regular reinforcement, which helps motiva

Boosters in a game, where a player obtains something to help them achieve the win-state effectively.

Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

At a high level, this design promotes a feedback loop whereby users derive points from high-quality contributions on the platform such as contributing content, moderating, or winning gameplay. And then, when the users with points receive coins, they can be traded as a currency.

Jad Esber • A Novel Framework for Reputation-Based Systems - a16z crypto

Brag Buttons (Game Technique #57) and Trophy Shelves (Game Technique #64)

Yu-kai Chou • Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards

When The Huffington Post looked to grow participation on their platform in 2010, they introduced the behavior of badging. Seemingly simple, badging was responsible for the growth of The Huffington Post over any other participatory tool or tactic because the intrinsic benefits tied to the community’s status and identity encouraged engagement on plat... See more

Tal Shachar • Creator DAOs:

This Core Drive involves many elements such as virtual goods and virtual currencies, but it is also the primary drive that compels us to collect stamps or accumulate wealth.