Gamify GitLab by adding a 馃憤 count to the user profile page
Problem to solve
Gamify GitLab.
Target audience
Really, anybody:
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Parker, Product Manager, https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/roles-personas#parker-product-manager
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Delaney, Development Team Lead, https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/roles-personas#delaney-development-team-lead
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Sasha, Software Developer, https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/roles-personas#sasha-software-developer
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Devon, DevOps Engineer, https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/roles-personas#devon-devops-engineer
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Sidney, Systems Administrator, https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/roles-personas#sidney-systems-administrator
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Sam, Security Analyst, https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/product-marketing/roles-personas#sam-security-analyst
Further details
Sites like Stack Overflow have had great success with gamifying participation through a "reputation score", which is earned when users provide value to the site.
This idea originated from a comment made by @jlenny: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57781#note_141778770.
Proposal
Implement a simple reputation system using the number of
As @jlenny mentioned in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57781#note_141778770, we could implement some rules to make this count more meaningful, i.e. only count
A future usage of this
We could also consider counting other emojis, like
What does success look like, and how can we measure that?
Are people having fun?