FriendsOfFlarum Gamification

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).

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

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!!!!!!!!!!

Mark73

One question, are we able to disable the custom ranks for admins and mods? same as excluding them from the rankings page...

robinodds

Mark73 i set 1B points to a custom rank, then manually add 1B points to admins and mods 😅

Mark73

robinodds That would give the admins and the mods the rank. I don't want that, I want to exclude admins and mods from having ranks, I want only regular members to have ranks

Mark73

MartinJD Very good point over here, but it's logical that active users, who interact the most, be on top

MartinJD

Mark73 True, but the top of the leader board should be quality over quantity.

jesusmoreno24

Hello, I have a problem with visitors from Google Chrome Mobile. They can't make LIKE give

Regards

datitisev

I have a PR (FriendsOfFlarum/gamification15) that should improve performance & bring some QoL fixes. There's a development version you can install if you want to test it out.

Explanation

However, this PR changes a lot of the backend, including how votes are saved - instead of having Down and Up votes, now we have numbers (-1 and 1 respectively) to improve performance.

If people are able to test this PR out before its released, it might prevent some issues that arise.

Installation

!!! If you want to go back to the released version after testing this out, you WILL need to revert a DB backup.
!!! It is recommended that you install this version on a TEST forum and not a live one.

If you want to test this PR, please make a backup of your database, then run

composer require fof/gamification=dev-ds/improvements
php flarum migrate

If you find any bugs, please check if it has been reported in other gamification versions by looking through the existing issues @ https://github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/gamification/issues before reporting it.

Kyrne

datitisev after this merges, I'm hoping to redesign the rankings page. It looks hideous and I can't believe I allowed myself to push that out originally.

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