[funsec] Crowdsourcing and gamification

[Jeffrey Walton]

"You start as a lowly cadet, but as you digitise more readings you get
steadily promoted. The idea of turning an otherwise mundane process
into a game, to give people more of an incentive to do it, has been a
hot trend this year, known as "gameification";
Aren't these Pyramid schemes? Oh wait, they are volunteers....

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon &
Hannah <rMslade at shaw.ca> wrote:
> http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/11/crowdsourced_science?fsrc=scn/t
> w/te/bl/weather1914
>
> I have always been sceptical of crowdsourcing because of the integrity issues.  Yes,
> I've seen some interesting examples, such as the use of Twitter reports to map
> current weather around the US.  But, generally, I've wondered if there were any
> real applications and uses for it.  (The digitization of old books is interesting, but I
> haven't seen any real results on that, yet.)
>
> OK, I was wrong, and, choosing the application carefully, I can see how it can
> work.  But, prior to this article, if someone had suggested adding game-playing to
> the mix, I would have thought that was a deal-breaker.  OK, so I was wrong, there,
> too.  Very intriguing application.
>
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