On Wednesday 15 January 2014 10:38:19 Richard Brown wrote:
On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 09:52 -0500, Robert Schweikert wrote:
After reading Drive by Daniel H. Pink recently I am more convinced than ever that we should stay away from anything that has any kind of awards, rewards, points, or whatever attached to it.
Systems of "do this - get that" barely work in the "pay for world" of employment.
Later, Robert
I recently read this blog post which sums up my fears on the topic of Karmafication framed in an example of a project that seems to have made all the mistakes people are worrying about here
http://michael.richter.name/blogs/why-i-no-longer-contribute-to-stackoverfl ow/
Thanks, that's a very good read. Please note that I feel stackoverflow goes much to far - it is practically at the other spectrum, compared to us. We make it hard to track what people do, they make it in-your-face obvious with gold and glitter. Something in between, I think, would be better. As usual :D