Keep it simple. I love @swizec's addition to marc's idea, but I'd stop there and not get any more complicated.
At the end of the day, if there's a scoreboard, then humans will find a way to game the system to climb the leaderboard.
I'd really love to see people stop adding banal life events (took shower, ordered takeout, folded laundry) as shippable events.
I wish there were a simple way we could give applause to the "good" ships so that users who consistently ship "good" things (created landing page, interviewed three potential app users, launched to PH) can move ahead of the others who are just shipping mundane life things so they don't lose their streak. And helping to promote the good behavior, rather than implementing a downvote system, is a much more positive spin on nurturing the behavior you're hoping to see more of while subtly discouraging the rest.
I mean, it'd be easy to add the applause icon next to completed ships in the web app. In the telegram channel, if a user replies to a WIPbot post showing the /done message with a +1, that would count as one vote as well.
Keep it simple. I love @swizec's addition to marc's idea, but I'd stop there and not get any more complicated.
At the end of the day, if there's a scoreboard, then humans will find a way to game the system to climb the leaderboard.
I'd really love to see people stop adding banal life events (took shower, ordered takeout, folded laundry) as shippable events.
I wish there were a simple way we could give applause to the "good" ships so that users who consistently ship "good" things (created landing page, interviewed three potential app users, launched to PH) can move ahead of the others who are just shipping mundane life things so they don't lose their streak. And helping to promote the good behavior, rather than implementing a downvote system, is a much more positive spin on nurturing the behavior you're hoping to see more of while subtly discouraging the rest.
I mean, it'd be easy to add the applause icon next to completed ships in the web app. In the telegram channel, if a user replies to a WIPbot post showing the /done message with a +1, that would count as one vote as well.