FriendsOfFlarum Gamification

clarkwinkelmann

teletubbie gamification and likes are two different features, and we recommend to not use both:

FriendsOfFlarum Note: This extension is meant as a replacement for the Flarum Likes extension. Therefore, they are not compatible and it's recommended to disable the Likes extension.

I'm not sure whether you are actually using both, but I just want to make sure as you can't compare Discuss (which uses Likes) with another forum that uses Gamification, as those are two completely independent extensions.

teletubbie

clarkwinkelmann Sure, I didn't mean like but upvotes.
I only use gamification and upvotes.

Yalfoosh

Ralkage Why not add a timestamp to an upvote/downvote entry, and then enable filtering based on that? No nuking required, just a gambit.

Ralkage

Yalfoosh resetting would indicate starting at 0 again but @Mark73 wasn’t really detailing much of his requirements to understand how this feature request is supposed to behave like. I mean, filters could be added for different times of the year and possible a default filter could be chosen but that would take some time implement 🙂

teletubbie

@datitisev @clarkwinkelmann the gamification extension shouldn't count as points, the upvotes that the same user gives himself.

Yalfoosh

Ralkage I understand this. But you don't have to reset to actually... reset. The upvotes and downvotes are just numbers. It is convenient for us to show everything that is in the database, but ignoring everything before April 2020 isn't that different than deleting existing data on April 1st 2020 from the user's standpoint. In both cases you just change what you show.

But I agree, it's a bit more advanced and unsure if anyone would want to spend time developing it instead of just wiping (if you don't need the data).

robinodds

I agree with @teletubbie
An user shouldn't be able to vote his own posts; it would be like cheating to climb the rankings.

Why don't let the admin to choose to enable or not this option?

teletubbie

robinodds I agree with @teletubbie
An user shouldn't be able to vote his own posts; it would be like cheating to climb the rankings.

Why don't let the admin to choose to enable or not this option?

does anyone else agree with us?

Mark73

Ralkage that would require nuking all of the upvotes and downvotes, which I assume, is what you’d like to have as an option?

EDIT: I actually don't want to nuke all the upvotes/downvotes, I want the points to remain all the time on users profiles but I want them to automatically reset on the rankings page on the 1st of each month so I can assign the user on the top of the leaderboard a "user of the month" badge by moving him to a separate group for a whole month! That's basically it, resetting the rankings page monthly. I would be glad to see this added to the extension in future updates!

Mark73

teletubbie I don't find it a huge problem, 1 upvote won't get someone to climb the rankings leaderboard that easily, it won't make much difference in my opinion. I have been through several huge forums like Reddit and Oculus, they let you upvote your post.

MartinJD

teletubbie
Yeah I agree with you - Not all users bother to upvote or downvote posts, so a user who posts very often and always upvotes his/her own posts will quickly climb to the top of the leaderboard. It would be great if we had the option to prevent users upvoting their own posts.

teletubbie

Mark73 Hello. Why would it be impossible for a user to upvote his/her comments 10 times a day?

Mark73

Mark73 I don't find it a huge problem, 1 upvote won't get someone to climb the rankings leaderboard that easily

I sort of change my mind about this, I put the extension in place and noticed the amount of unnecessary posts increasing on my forums just so users could upvote thier posts in order the climb the leaderboard. The ability to prevent users from upvoting their own posts should undoubtedly be in consideration.

askvortsov

I think you've gotten your point across at this point. I'm sure the developers will consider your standpoint. You can always open a PR if you feel particularly strongly.

Mark73

I want the points to automatically reset on the rankings page on the 1st of each month so I can assign the user on the top of the leaderboard a "user of the month"

Maybe, instead of resetting the leaderboard every month, we could have an all-time leaderboard and a monthly/weekly leaderboard. I think this would be much easier to implement. I'm still sticking with a "user of the month" contest idea as I think it would make communities a lot more engaging.

The idea of having 2 separate leaderboards, an all-time leaderboard and a certain period leaderboard, was taken from the Oculus VR forums. It can be found on the right of this page https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/activity

askvortsov

Alternatively, all posts could be automatically upvoted by the author as reddit does it?

Mark73

askvortsov The disability to upvote your own post would be better choice in my opinion, but if that's not going to be in consideration, then automatic post upvotes by authors would still be a great alternative. Anything that makes it as fair as possible. On my forums, there is a huge gap between the first place and the others, in the long term, he was able to increase the gap without even the need to spam.

MartinJD

askvortsov This issue with this is that it just basically devalues the entire thing as users with high post counts end up dominating the rankings.

robinodds

Mark73 the auto-upvote option already exits

Mark73

robinodds I have never paid attention to that, thank you for alerting me!!!!!!!!!!

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