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Comment author: ScottL 02 September 2015 01:14:08PM *  3 points [-]

I'm wondering what the optimal number of people on the leaderboard would be.

From a usability point of view, 15 sounds about right to me. There is already a lot of other stuff on the side bar.

I suspect that if there were 20 people on the leaderboard, that would increase the motivation effect, without significantly devaluing being on the leaderboard itself.

Maybe, if the point is to increase motivation there might be better ways. I don't know if these are any good, but here's some example ideas:

  • Designated appreciators - people who try to highlight the good parts in posts and offer constructive advice on how to improve them.
  • Month in review post - this would be a post that contains the authors favorite posts last month with short abstracts of the posts.
  • A more flexible feedback system.
  • Some designated (nice) users who offer to give advice if people message them.
  • Some designated collaborators - if you have some ideas for a post, but don't know enough about the subject you can message some users who have volunteered and have knowledge in that particular area. If they have time, they can help you find what areas to look into further and offer advice on how to improve your post.
  • Suggested articles post - a post which provides some ideas that look interesting and haven't really been explored thoroughly yet. This would be good for people who don't have any ideas on what to write for a post.
  • Perhaps, integrate the karma awards for the users who volunteer to take on certain roles.
Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 02 September 2015 09:42:37PM 2 points [-]

Poll for it! What motivation device would you like to see most:

Submitting...

Comment author: Elo 02 September 2015 06:51:10PM 1 point [-]

suggested articles

I wrote the rough equivalent for articles I am writing/planning to write..

Month in review

I will think about it if I have time to review things.

collaborators

Yes. Me. Write to me! Write about things; I will read things and make suggestions.

Comment author: ScottL 02 September 2015 11:19:17PM *  0 points [-]

I wrote the rough equivalent for articles I am writing/planning to write..

I liked that post. Those sort of posts are brilliant as well. For the suggested articles post, I was thinking more of something like this:

I think that I am going to move away from the reasoning aspect of the mental model theory just because there seems to be some justifiable reasons for why the wording of the examples it uses to convey itself may be skewing the results. That is, people interpret the problems in a different way and this might just be all there is to them getting the answer 'wrong'. I don't know if this issue has been dealt with in the literature on mental models. I still think that mental model theory is a interesting area to look into. But, I probably wont be able to get/devote the time to it that I need to before I am able to expand on and deal with the issues with the overview of mental model theory post I wrote. If anyone thinks that this would be an interesting idea to look into, I recommend reading this book. I haven't read it, but Johnson-Laird - the author - is the originator of the mental model theory and most prolific writer on the subject.

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Yes. Me. Write to me! Write about things; I will read things and make suggestions.

I might do this after I have planned out some potential posts.

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