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| Feb 19, 2022 at 5:01 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Might as well try to remove the gamification aspects from Las Vegas. | |
| Feb 19, 2022 at 3:32 | answer | added | Calvin Khor | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 19, 2022 at 3:08 | history | bumped | CommunityBotStaff | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Jul 1, 2021 at 16:17 | comment | added | Asinomás | Dang, he left the site. He wrote a lot of really good answers :/ | |
| Jun 30, 2021 at 8:41 | comment | added | user1729 | I am familiar with these discussions, but I did not (and do not) get the impression from them that "The prevailing notion is that this is to the detriment of MSE". Gamification leads to issues, yes, and your links are discussing these issues. However, there are benefits to gamification too, which we have to take into account when deciding is something is detrimental. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 13:24 | answer | added | JonathanZ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 9:15 | comment | added | user694818 | cf. math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/32665/… math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33608/two-cheers-for-eoqs math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/33508/… | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 9:08 | comment | added | user694818 | @user1729 MSE meta has been full of conversations about EoQS specifically the need to close PSQs before someone sneaks in with a solution. Another facet of that problem, not such a hot topic lately, is that problem of a "fastest gun in the west" solution that is fast rather than accurate or well-written. All of this is part of a narrative that there is an incentive to write low-quality answers to low-quality questions. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 7:14 | comment | added | user1729 | Do you have any evidence for the claim "The prevailing notion is that this is to the detriment of MSE specifically"? (Although I do understand your point, especially about us being "closer to the end than the beginning".) | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 2:19 | comment | added | user694818 | @MartinSleziak I didn't see anyone discussing this here before, and the editor didn't suggest anything close when I wrote this post. I think what I'm suggesting here is a more radical proposal. If we make a full break from it, it will do a lot to eliminate the mistrust and suspicion between answerers and closers (and I say this as someone who performs both roles). | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 2:13 | comment | added | Asinomás | You can always post something similar to this question on meta stack exchange, although I haven't been very successful with that approach in the past. I personally kind of like rep, but I'd have no problem with it being eliminated if it could make the site as pleasant as it was 7 years ago. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 2:09 | comment | added | user694818 | Another question is whether there are SE's that would also want to pursue this option if it were made available to us. Mathematics (and maybe Physics, I don't know) have a different lifecycle than topics like programming and astronomy that will always have new information and new challenges. I'm not proposing that we shut down new questions altogether at this time, but it seems clear that we're closer to the end than we are to the beginning. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 2:02 | comment | added | Asinomás | Is there a stackexchange site that managed to get rid of reputation? Another interesting question might be why mathoverflow also decided to adopt reputation. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 2:00 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Did you find some older feature requests similar to yours? I was able to find only some posts which are about hiding reputation "partially", not removing it alltogether: Options to hide reputation information on Stack Overflow? or Hide the rep and badge count on a user's info box on answers. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 1:57 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | As a side note, anonymous feedback is somewhat similar to your "hidden reputation" - you can read a bit more in this answer and I have posted a few SEDE queries in chat. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 1:57 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | This post on Meta Stack Exchange by Jon Ericson seems a bit related: The problem with extrinsic motivation Gamification was discussed quite a bit also on this meta: Can someone explain the “economics” of StackExchange points?, Reputation - Why do so many people care? | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 1:14 | history | edited | user694818 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 851 characters in body |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 0:58 | history | asked | user694818 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |