Not sure this goes in the spirit of the guidelines:
"Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion."
Yeah, the entire concept of badges is so bizarre to me, but I'm old. There was another post some time back that would scan a user's post history and tally up how many points posts made using various reward levels. It was an obvious gamification with achievement type badges. I really hope that the person that did that gain valuable skills on how to use a 3rd party API and used it as a learning project. Other than that, what's the point?
There was a Launch HN yesterday [0] that featured something similar on their landing page, which caught my attention as it was the first time I'd seen such a badge.
Are there other projects floating around I've somehow never seen before? The justwords.ai badge has a different look and feel to it.
I don't like how this feels - kind of like Product Hunt, Digg, Reddit, etc, and the implications of the "power users" there too. I'm not sure this is something to encourage.
I *really* don't want to see us encourage gamifying HN submissions. Something can be highly ranked for a myriad of reasons, including for technically controversial ones (e.g different philosophies in solving specific technical challenges).
A discussion here is a discussion, not a selling point. Makes me less willing to contribute to conversation about a product if the parent company promotes in this manner, though I might be in the minority there.
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- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Are there other projects floating around I've somehow never seen before? The justwords.ai badge has a different look and feel to it.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39591972
A discussion here is a discussion, not a selling point. Makes me less willing to contribute to conversation about a product if the parent company promotes in this manner, though I might be in the minority there.