Happy Sunday all!
I want to share with you an exciting and fun update to ScapeCrunch called "Community Achievements". Similar to Reddit's Community Achievements, it's a system that provides a small and fun reward for helping our community in different ways.
Why?
The main and best feature that ScapeCrunch will ever have is an active community of people sharing knowledge and support. Full stop. Therefore, active posting by members is the fuel for our community and anything that may encourage that should be considered as beneficial..
Gamification is a scientifically-proven tool that encourages behavior by using human traits. You see it everywhere for a reason - it works.
However, it's a double edged sword. Overused or used incorrectly, it can be wrong or downright evil. We only do good here at ScapeCrunch so we will focus on ensuring it gently encourages good behavior and make sure this is completely optional for everyone.
What?
Community Achievements will try to encourage behavios that foster learning, community and sharing. They are broken achievements down into four categories - Getting Started, Community Building, Streaks and Legendary.
Here are some badges a member gets when achieving an objective like setting an avatar, starting a journal, setting a signature, saying "hi" in the Meet and Greet Forum, etc.
How?
The Community Achievements will be a game that a member can participate in or completely ignore. They will be housed in a member's profile page and in the Help section. The member will have the option to decide on which three badges (very small versions) to show under their username but that is the extent of what will be visible broadly.
So, if you don't like gamification and don't want to make it part of your ScapeCrunch experience, no problem. You will never really see them. But, if you do want to get some of these cool badges, then you can have a fun time chasing and collecting them. They can be shown off in your personal profile page.
When do we start?
We will be launching Community Achievements slowly over time to make sure we work out any bugs. We are doing so over the slower summer months as we usually have less members checking in daily making any bug-stomping easier.
The first badge being released is in the Legendary category and is called Challenge Winner. It is awarded to the member that wins a ScapeCrunch challenge such as the Media of the Month challenge.
This is what it looks like:
To sum it up, Community Achievements is completely optional so if you don't like gamification, disregard this message. They will not really impact your experience of ScapeCrunch.
On the other hand, if you like little fun challenges and like collecting the cool little badges, then the hunt will be on for you. Stay tuned as we release the achievements slowly over the summer.
As always, I'm so grateful that you are a part of our growing community and I always value your feedback.
I want to share with you an exciting and fun update to ScapeCrunch called "Community Achievements". Similar to Reddit's Community Achievements, it's a system that provides a small and fun reward for helping our community in different ways.
Why?
The main and best feature that ScapeCrunch will ever have is an active community of people sharing knowledge and support. Full stop. Therefore, active posting by members is the fuel for our community and anything that may encourage that should be considered as beneficial..
Gamification is a scientifically-proven tool that encourages behavior by using human traits. You see it everywhere for a reason - it works.
However, it's a double edged sword. Overused or used incorrectly, it can be wrong or downright evil. We only do good here at ScapeCrunch so we will focus on ensuring it gently encourages good behavior and make sure this is completely optional for everyone.
What?
Community Achievements will try to encourage behavios that foster learning, community and sharing. They are broken achievements down into four categories - Getting Started, Community Building, Streaks and Legendary.
Here are some badges a member gets when achieving an objective like setting an avatar, starting a journal, setting a signature, saying "hi" in the Meet and Greet Forum, etc.
The Community Achievements will be a game that a member can participate in or completely ignore. They will be housed in a member's profile page and in the Help section. The member will have the option to decide on which three badges (very small versions) to show under their username but that is the extent of what will be visible broadly.
So, if you don't like gamification and don't want to make it part of your ScapeCrunch experience, no problem. You will never really see them. But, if you do want to get some of these cool badges, then you can have a fun time chasing and collecting them. They can be shown off in your personal profile page.
When do we start?
We will be launching Community Achievements slowly over time to make sure we work out any bugs. We are doing so over the slower summer months as we usually have less members checking in daily making any bug-stomping easier.
The first badge being released is in the Legendary category and is called Challenge Winner. It is awarded to the member that wins a ScapeCrunch challenge such as the Media of the Month challenge.
This is what it looks like:
To sum it up, Community Achievements is completely optional so if you don't like gamification, disregard this message. They will not really impact your experience of ScapeCrunch.
On the other hand, if you like little fun challenges and like collecting the cool little badges, then the hunt will be on for you. Stay tuned as we release the achievements slowly over the summer.
As always, I'm so grateful that you are a part of our growing community and I always value your feedback.
