[wweef] Like the messages count there? Join date and location are unimportant, but I think post counts are the most powerful form of gamification. When I used to use any other forum software, the main thing that got me to post was watching my little post count go up and comparing it to other people. In the forum I run now I am getting tons of signups but people just post once or twice and then leave. The built in gamification like badges etc, no one seems to pay attention to. Does anyone have an example script/css to make post counts work? Thanks!

Discourse considers read time the more important metric. See [image] Because Reading is Fundamental Most discussions show a bit of information next to each user: What message does this send? * The only number you can control printed next to your name is post count. * Everyone who reads this will see your current post count. * The more you...

ok awesome Does anyone know a way to display the users total read time in the individual posts or access it in CSS/javascript? Theres obviously some variable somewhere for it. Hopefully it is accessible. Maybe one could make a script to turn read time into some more nebulous point system.

one can configure badges associated with read time to work as gamification for read time as that article suggests, but people also like seeing numbers go up on their posts. Also my forum uses badges already for a different purpose.

Read time is visible if you click or tap on the user avatar, like so [image]

Is that stat accessible via CSS/javascript so I can manipulate it into a different metric or put it into posts that dont require additional clicking? and thank you for replying

my forum was recently featured in a huge documentary, and although discourse is great at promoting lurkers, despite all this attention we cant get people to stay so maybe theres a way to put readtime or a readtime associated metric next to usernames without having to click This would improve gamification on my forum

The number one thing that gets people to stay is compelling content. Adding post count (or read time) to every post is not a magic bullet. Heck in the case of post count I would argue it is actually harmful for the reasons outlined in the blog post I mentioned earlier. For practical advice see [image] Building a Discourse Community Sure, anyone can set up their very own Discourse in 30 minutes or less. But how do you get people to go there? [image] Launching a Successful Discourse Community While we’ve offered general tips for building a Discourse community, we also get a lot of questions about what specifically you can do to help launch a successful Discourse community.

you said in the interview you actively discourage content lol because there is (in your words) too much content online which is fine but not great for new forums of a diffuse subject It doesnt matter in the end for forums where the users of a specific thing are confined by copyright to one forum (Ubuntu, Eve etc)

[image] Jennifer_Abrams: you said in the interview Which interview was this? Can you provide a link?

the one linked in the article you linked [image] Why Listening is More Important Than Talking | CBC Radio Online, we reward people for contributing. Adding your two cents is valued. But software developer Jeff Atwood argues that listening is more important than talking, and reading - right to the end! - is more important than writing.

Any way to add user post count totals to posts?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) July 23, 2019, 3:24pm 8

The number one thing that gets people to stay is compelling content.

Adding post count (or read time) to every post is not a magic bullet. Heck in the case of post count I would argue it is actually harmful for the reasons outlined in the blog post I mentioned earlier.

For practical advice see

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Any way to add user post count totals to posts?

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