Dronoob
lvl.4
Flight distance : 126079 ft
Germany
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DJI Joe Posted at 2017-1-25 12:08
You are somewhat correct. The drive should be more about being part of a community. The current system offers points as an incentive, but there aren't so many points given that people only looking to profit will be motivated more powerfully than someone looking to share in their excitement.
If you have any of your own ideas of how the forum can incentivize positive content, please share! Thanks for your input.
One thing I noticed: Upvoting and downvoting is hardly used. I myself had posts with replies that said "thank you" and "great post" but users did not upvote it. To me that means: Users did not understand that upvotes are a way to reward great contributions. Nonetheless, upvoting is a great feature and it should be more visible and present to become a successful means to support a vibrant community.
This is what I would do to get it up and running:
- Allow users to upvote the first posting (not just the replies) and show the number of upvotes on the main page. This makes it easy for users to acknowledge good content. Furthermore, many users will feel good to see that their posting got 15 upvotes. Last but notleast, it makes the feature more visible and shows that upvoting is an important means in the DJI forums.
- Upvotes should also trigger short notifications like: "Your posting/reply ... got 5 upvotes", "Your posting/reply got 10 upvotes" and so on. That way you can easily "keep in touch" with users and encourage them to continue providing good content. Those notifications are especially useful as users will not keep track of their postings and repliesall the time and might not notice that others really liked the user's contribution.
- Every upvote contributes to the DJI credits. E.g. an upvote you receive yould give you 10 DJI credit points (just an example number). But upvoting others also contributes to the DJI credits. It should not be so much that this feature can be abused to gain credits, but it should encourage people to upvote good content of other users. I'd give 1 point for upvoting other users' content.
- The number of upvotes could also be used next to the user name as a kind of user level. It somehow interferes with the current system of user levels but maybe you find a way to merge both concepts.
"Downvotes" are negative feedback and I would remove this feature completely. Nobody wants to get bad feedback! For really bad and unwanted content,there is still the reporting system that should send a message to the moderators so that they can take care of it. I would not grant any points for reporting bad content.
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