My forum doesn’t use gifs, badges or gamification. My users are locked to TL1. Even reactions are really under used. All those are excluded because practically no one likes those — but as we all propably know fair share of forums and social media platforms are filled with topics never ending ”discussion” of gifs, and because I don’t allow such low level posts, those users don’t do anything else than reading.
Well, gifs or boosts aren’t discussion and makes everything very restless[1]. But that is only my opinion and my active users are seeing things similar way.
I understand why, propably quite many so called non-tech forums, would like to use boosts. And that’s fine as long two obvious things happens:
- admin can disable boosts
- boosts as a system doesn’t break things when disabled
What I would like to see, in the role of user, would be ability to hide zero content, like gifs or boosts, totally.
Anyway, boosts is not a zero-sum game.
but are very good for ads… ↩︎