Badges or achievements

I don't know if there had been similar topic opened before but I came across with the idea of badges or achievements.

I see them as a small picture which will represent our progress here on Numista and they will be seen on our profile page. They will cover different aspects of the swapping, forum conversations or catalogue contributions. I think this site will be more interesting that way, collectors will try to get some new badges or to improve ones they already have.

Examples:
When collector records 100 Years edited he will get a colored badge with "100+" and "Years edited" on it. It could be made as a token or coin to present the idea of what is Numista dealing with. So when this specific collector records 500 Years edited previously owned badge will be swapped with another one with different color.
Similar badges could be obtained when collector made more then 10 / 50 / 100 / 500 good swaps.
Also referees could get their own "special" badge.

But if this idea will ever be realized I think it is better to keep lower number of possible badges that a collector can get. Little variations of the badges that collector already has could be also seen when you hover your mouse cursor over his name (like it is the case with feedback now).

Tell me your opinion about that idea so we can develop to further.

It was on here a few years ago, then dropped.
The remnants of it are on Profile pages >

Will see if I can find the topic.
Also these from last year ...
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic49704.html#p414654
https://en.numista.com/forum/topic49194.html

Both of the mentioned ideas are similar but not entirely the same. This badge will be just small photo that would be seen on a profile page of a specific collector - to honor their work and progress.

It is on Xavier's low priority list.

It will be like a game on the phone. I would not like that.

Gamification nowadays is one of the most effective strategies to engage users. If someone doesn't like it, they are free to ignore it. But to be fair, even the most serious businesses use some sort of gamification as it really increases the profits.

Quote: "lebryant"​Gamification nowadays is one of the most effective strategies to engage users. If someone doesn't like it, they are free to ignore it. But to be fair, even the most serious businesses use some sort of gamification as it really increases the profits.

​While that is true, what profits are you talking about with regards to Numista? It's a free website and the badges would be free. I guess ad revenue, but I doubt people will sign up for Numista just so they could participate in a "game". And I don't think a badge system is what would incentivize someone to come here, after all it's not like that advertises the website somewhere.

Quote: "Arusak"​

Quote: "lebryant"​Gamification nowadays is one of the most effective strategies to engage users. If someone doesn't like it, they are free to ignore it. But to be fair, even the most serious businesses use some sort of gamification as it really increases the profits.

​​While that is true, what profits are you talking about with regards to Numista? It's a free website and the badges would be free. I guess ad revenue, but I doubt people will sign up for Numista just so they could participate in a "game". And I don't think a badge system is what would incentivize someone to come here, after all it's not like that advertises the website somewhere.

​I don't believe the badge system will provide new members, because they will definitely not sign up to get badges. But what it will provide is to encourage existing members to make some contributions on Numista. When I signed up I saw a line catalogue contribution and I was looking forward to make these contributions, partly just because of the number of contributions, so to erase zero there.

These badges will just update this line of catalogue contributions or to take it to next level. There are members who make lots of contributions, but the majority of members still didn't record any. And this is the main reason why I present you my view. To encourage all members to contribute and to make this catalogue better and profounder. And this is a huge profit in my opinion.

Don't forget that two out of every three Numista accounts never even bother adding a coin to their collection, let alone modify our catalog.

You want more participation on Numista? Start there.

That's exactly what I've said - gamification helps to engage users. I'm not saying you won't have accounts without any coins added, but the overall user activity would be better. For finding new users, there're different approaches.

We would like it to be pro activity but not at the expense of catalogue quality - so it would not be a race for a badge.

Then it is up to referees to confirm just quality contributions and to deny which need some more corrections.
So far it is the same if someone just add a point at the end of a coin description or if he writes whole description of reverse and obverse and adds maybe some comments or photos. All counts for one coin correction.

A quality coin correction is in my opinion the one that does not need any more future corrections for specific segment of a coin. For example when you write descriptive reverse/obverse look no corrections are needed in future.

A close relative idea.