Re:Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub
by Goronmon on Thursday February 26, 2015 @01:37PM
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The biggest problem is that gamification tends to provide incentives to improve your efficiency in affecting the "game" portion, to the detriment of the actual thing being scored. As the game becomes more popular, the game becomes what is important.
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Re:Show HN: Discover your ranking on GitHub
by luisobo on Thursday February 26, 2015 @08:18PM
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that's a flaw in the design of a particular the game and not a flaw of gamification itself. What if you could only be rewarded by doing things properly? By trying to affect the outcome of the game you will be improving how you do things normally.