Reaction tally interface - positive treatment only

An organization is collaborating with GitLab to better understand how incentives that provide recognition and reputation would influence OSS contributor retention. Reaction emoji (e.g. 👍, 👎) are a form of feedback that can be used to allocate awards and provide feedback.

An API is being built to provide the data gitlab-ce#38982

The intended use case is to retrieve the tally for:

  • 👍 reaction
  • 👎 reaction
  • top three reactions excluding 👍 and 👎

Proposal

In this first treatment (of three), only the 👍 reaction count should be shown.

profile-count

There will be five different groups that users will be assigned to:

  • control: user will not be able to see any reaction tally anywhere
  • private: user will only be able to a reaction tally on their own profile
  • private notified: user will only be able to a reaction tally on their own profile
  • public: user will be able see the reaction tally on any users profile
  • public notified: user will be able see the reaction tally on any users profile

The users in the notified trials will receive a notification increasing the likelihood they are made aware of the tally.

Links / references

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/38555

Documentation blurb

Overview

What is it? Why should someone use this feature? What is the underlying (business) problem? How do you use this feature?

Use cases

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Feature checklist

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