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I could see a potential in gamifying steem apps to direct users into the world of quality open source software with excelling user experience. I plan to make something similar at work.

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I experience #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 by authoring posts.

I also experience #7 when a thumbnail catches my eye, and I am investing in Steem to offset any losses I'd incur if the Global Financial System and USD collapsed #8.

The decrease in authors was partly caused by Hardfork 20 and the need for Resource Credits. The low price of Steem played a greater role, but don't forget the RC requirement after Hardfork 20. @noisy @andararchy

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I am personally very happy with @steemit @musing and the Steem blockchain!

The answer is to reward long term engagement with the Steem platform. Of course participants come to earn and leave when they can't earn. Long term engagement isn't rewarded at all.

One thing that has always done well for me is keep the faith (whatever that is to you) and help others! Keep doing those things and you will never go wrong.  
Love the idea of making more games on the steem platform we can probably look back at other social network platforms to avoid the pitfalls of things not to do.

Maybe if 95% of the inflation went to more than 100 accounts more people would want to play?

Bring back the n2, and downvotes for those that abuse it with votes of more than 500mv, and give the original design a chance instead of letting the hijackening persist, imo.

Twitch and StackExchange are two good examples of gamification at work on a site.

Steem is already a game on some level since everybody is competing or collaborating to earn points i.e. tokens. And it's also a game to try and get to the top of the list where your post can get the most attention and tokens.

i built businesses over the years that developed massive user adoption and loyalty from this exact same model. 

people will love the ability to not only search for ways to earn badges but also develop a loyalty to the people offering them. 

been using this model for years and it works :)

would love to see this develop more. 

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game theory is about mathematical games, its about knowing the action rational decision makers in order to minimise risks of attacs. But gamification is all about non-rational decision makers (everyday life humans). non-rational =/= irational, its about emotional, perception and motiv based decision making. 

psychology, behavioral biology, neuro economics they all have great theorys to work with when you design a game. In business there is something called serious games.

One of the most obvious mistakes was to show the dollar price under the article. Every one knows about the anchoring bias of the human mind. Once u get payed realy high in dollar terms, then every other payment will be too low.

We should definitely discuss! I am currently thinking about introducing some gamification within steemstem.io as I am sure this would offer a good way to attract new users and make them staying on the platform. I will reach you out directly at some point next week.

@spectrumecons has written a lot about game theory. He can certainly be of help in developing ideas for Steem's future.

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I don't know if gamification is the answer to Steemit's problems but there is a lot of work needed in simplify the user's experience, is a trouble for all newbies to fully understand the way this network works, if the gamification goes in that direction, I mean that if manages to do the learning process more comfortable for the new user then it might be a solution, if we complicate too much the things in that gamification we could manage to do the network still harder to understand.

Good article, you have here some interesting points.

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It's one of the topics of the moment! Very inteteresting.

Where did the author get his 8 core drives from? 

Does it cover a sense of fairness? I'm sure one of the main reasons people leave is seeing drivel getting rewards when their better posts get less! 

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Yes, gamification is a great way to go. I have some experience with this in the 'mental health' sector where we wanted to motivate people to do their mental health tracking and homework and stuff, and if done right it can really help. Badges are not enough, it's more about leveling up and feeling like you had to work to be able to 'do more'... We could also gamify Powering Up of course ;-) I need to think about this and today is not the day for that, but add me to a working group if one is formed :-) Cheers!

Steem has gaming built in as you can 'win' rewards and improve your rep, but this has been distorted by vote buying. I see people get a high rep just based on the votes they paid for and so it means less than it should.

Whether people stick around depends on whether they enjoy the experience and if they think it has a future. The money aspect shouldn't matter so much if you treat it like all those platforms that pay you nothing. We don't even have to put up with annoying ads. Steem can be great if you find the right people to hang out with and I hope more of those will join up.

On the run now but interested. Wrote a post a couple of weeks ago looking at part of this

https://steemit.com/steem/@tarazkp/gamify-steem-stat

You can find me on discord under the same name.

i said to @partiko to implement the peepeth style badges as a test to see how it goes and pipe some of those funds back into the eco system. i hope they do it.