Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:20:58 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME discussions Message-ID: <bf2871313df1e8697b391cc0426d3831bbc97b46.camel@riseup.net> In-Reply-To: <a56a1afa-c31e-064e-bbf5-0abb58635d71@freebsd.org> References: <c9a4ee2d3a9cb81d6131854027e4860e@ltcddata.plus.com> <15e8931aefdad251e9410889360925826b690d8a.camel@riseup.net> <b49e74b6-778b-f970-1e8e-2ad66e92f9a0@freebsd.org> <f273926c4e3b5c47f1cf46f4b8206346606afce0.camel@riseup.net> <3507971d-e9fc-0531-5a63-f22f13854476@freebsd.org> <bb8097f1bc0de737ea90412c90ee12421e7d8592.camel@riseup.net> <a56a1afa-c31e-064e-bbf5-0abb58635d71@freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 2022-10-30 at 16:42 +0000, Graham Perrin wrote: > On 30/10/2022 16:03, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > =E2=80=A6 GNOME's > > =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0Discourse is such a gamification overdosed forum. =E2= =80=A6 > =C2=A0Honestly, I don't know what you mean =E2=80=A6 Hi, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification . This forum has go levels. Depending on a level you are allowed or not allowed to do things. You earn presents and badges. You probably didn't notice some of the drawbacks, if you didn't reply to several topics. After a while you get a notice, that you have to wait for a day, before you are allowed to continue participating. All depends on the level you reached. If you played the game for the purpose of the powers that be, you get another boy scout badge. This infantilisation has nothing to do with a education related to a CoC, or protection against spam/trolls, in this regard it's more comparable with the Chinese's social credit system, the subscribers are under general suspicion. However, more perfidious than this kind of "education" is the manipulation the GNOME foundation can do and without doubts already started doing, made possible by gamification. You probably get badges for "thumbs ups", "helped a lot" and similar ratings. Dunno, I subscribed, tested and unsubscribed before I reached level 1, before I got a present. "Heather Chaplin, writing in Slate, describes gamification as "an allegedly populist idea that actually benefits corporate interests over those of ordinary people"." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification#Criticism Regards, Ralf
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