Open Prices: Gamification 🏆

[bcd4e6]

Hi everyone!
and especially Open Prices: news users

You’ve probably seen that we run challenges every month, and we also have detailed contribution stats. Let’s think together of the next possible iterations!

So we’re running a super quick survey regarding gamification.

Gamification in Open Prices | Framaforms.org

The survey will be available until end of June.
But feel free to reply to this thread anytime.

[Libra]

All of these options are interesting. The only one problem I see all of them are concentrated on personal results/stats.

I firmly believe, it could be useful to add something like communities/groups to Open Prices.

It is just some random idea I have, but here are more details, what it could be in theory.

Users can create thematic groups (groups for some city, for some category of products or any other common theme). Every group has owner/moderator(s), by default it is someone who created this specific group. The group can be public (anyone can join to it) or per approve model (your request for joining should be approved by group’s moderator or similar).

After joining you can send prices through/to this specific group. Again two types of groups:

• Public contribution. Groups have their own statistics, and contribution of all members to this group is public as well. You can see who proposed every proof or price to this group.

• Anonymous contribution - user sends price. This price waits for approve and after it, the price will be “anonimized”. Here I see two possible realizations:

  1. Contributor’s data is deleted after proposing proof and even moderator can’'t see who proposed some price. This model can work for private groups, where we believe we can trust every member.
  2. Moderator sees who proposes this price, but after moderator’s approve contributor’s data is deleted. This model can work for public or private groups, which everyone can join to.

  Every approved price will be associated with moderator who approved it.

What it gives:

• It adds competition on group/team level in addition to individual level, which can be more interesting for some people.
• “Anonymous” contribution mode can be interesting potentially for people who don’t want their purchase information will be associated with them (their accounts) in DB (because of their privacy), so they will be able to be a part of Open Prices project and even take part in some sort of competition as whole group, refusing personal statistics though. In fact it is not fully anonymous, but the more members will be in group, more harder it will be to understand which proof to which user belongs to. Because moderators work here like mixers, the data (proofs) of every contributor will be associated with one or more moderators but not with their personal account. So for instance, even if some proof has unblured personal information, it won’t be easy to associate this info with exact user.