Questions tagged [incentive]
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Why Manually Award Bounties?
What reason does a Stack Exchange user have for manually awarding a bounty? It seems to me that, since only half of the bounty will be awarded if no bounty is manually awarded, users are, in fact, ...
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Reward linking questions
Reward linking questions to leverage and organize existing knowledge
There is already so much knowledge stored inside the Stack Exchange network. The chance is high that an answered question relates ...
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How to best leverage the Community Ads feature for maximum contribution?
The beta community that I moderate may be up for maturation in 2022 -- which would allow for "Community Ads".
I am very excited to gain this feature because it represents a real opportunity ...
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Would encouraging votes on new answers improve chronology independence?
Chronology Independence is a concept I'm introducing related to the correlation between answer popularity and the order and gaps in time between answer submittals.
Imagine three nominees for the ...
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What is the average time distribution of reputation accrual?
I am wondering if anyone has analyzed average reputation points accrued over time.
Given that posting a good answer to a question will accrue a total of x points over a year, I imagine there must be ...
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Changing community standards and how we incentivize the brush-off
(Similar to "Could we please be a bit nicer to new
users?", but more
specific.)
A user who's been around for a while but hasn't been too active just
asked a very good question in
a comment.
He ...
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Feature needed to incentivize more positive activity mostly orthogonal to current incentives
Why I think another feature is needed:
There are currently 2 primary methods of gamification for the site: Reputation and Badges.
(Hats seem like a tweaked form of badges, and as they're seasonal, ...
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Encourage people to "Pay it forward"
Stack Exchange uses rewards to encourage participation:
Votes for good content
Badges for good questions, answers, and behavior
Reputation bonuses for valid edits
Increased responsibilities for good ...
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Meta-Meta SO - Is letting access to all a good idea?
Edit: I've rewritten the title to indicate I do not have a personal "opinion" on this matter, but that I'm rather trying to see where everybody stands in regards to new member participation on meta.
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Is there an Incentive to vote to close?
I am glad SO is rationalizing the close policy. I had been repeatedly admonishing closers, and looks like I was not the only one.
On to the topic, is there a reputational incentive to vote to close? ...
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Will Winterbash promote mass spamming due to its short time frame?
Is there any concern that the hats, due to their time-limited nature, will encourage mass spamming of posts? Cosmopolitan, for example, can only be achieved by posting to Meta. There are over one ...
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Get an incentive for NOT saying "look at the documentation"
When a user clearly states that they are a newbie, people should be encouraged to give an interpretation of the documentation, not just a link to the documentation. Increasingly, Stack Overflow is the ...
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Is it alright to pay real money for useful help? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Offering actual money as a bounty?
I'm really stuck. My post here isn't getting any help yet. I'd be thrilled to pay a few bucks for a solution. I'm thinking of posting the ...
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Do badges give additional privileges or unlock features?
So far as I can tell, badges exist to create incentive for good behavior, but they don't actually confer any additional privileges to the user, or unlock any features. Are there any badges that do ...
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Reward finding duplicate questions - +10, +2, -5
Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions deals with various ways of rewarding the finding of duplicates, a tough and increasingly necessary janitorial task.
Here's a concrete suggestion:
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