How are you Gamifying your Discourse?

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With custom automatic badging out of our reach, how are you gamifying your Discourse instance?

Our forum tends to be used as a support forum, and what I really want it to encourage people to talk to each other. At first I was looking into some badging that allows us to give badges when a user has posted on 3, 10, 20, 50, and 100 topics where they are not the OP. But that is not a power available to me because I cannot even monitor that type of engagement with Discourse.

So, what are your gamification activities?

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Do you not have access to the data explorer plugin?

I imagine that getting a few people (like 10?) who actually do talk to each other a bunch of times daily, throughout the day, to model that behavior would be more productive than badges, but I don’t know about your community.

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modeling the behavior is something we are working on, but it depends entirely on folks seeing the behavior in a support oriented forum with lots of single threaded conversations.

The badge allows people who do the behavior to see that we appreciate it and thereby be encouraged to do more.

We don’t have access to the data explorer plugin. But if we get it, will have to figure out how to account for posts where the op is not the poster. That seems like a step two problem though. XD

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I’m curious as to your long game here. Why do you want members of a support community to connect?

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Here are some concepts that may help you to brainstorm:

  • for practicing journals we have some stats (from data explorer) and badges
  • for automaticly asigned “checkers” we have topic ratings (turned off for posts) - discourse-ratings plugin
  • and rewards between all groups - with fantastic rewards plugin

And we use a lot of automation implemented using Fluent Discourse and Anvil.

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