Designing a badge system people actually care about
Lessons from rewarding repeatable community behaviors without turning every interaction into a points farm.
A badge should recognize a story, not merely fill a progress bar. ‘Published five field-tested tutorials’ tells me something about a member. ‘Clicked the page fifty times’ does not.
The rest is for members.
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