I don't necessarily appreciate being made the example or some of the underlying tones of some of the messages.
But I do get the point. The reward and participation system is able to be gamified. At least to a degree.
It is most observant by those posting monthly to the monthly Top Contributors threads and simply for the comment and throwing a few likes around usually getting the base reward.
But some of the backlash against the these gamified aspect seems muted by the fact it is an even playing field. We all are able to have the access and ability to exploit the gamified aspect. And quite a few of the people pointing it out and complaining about it, utilize it to some extent appearing to be hypocrites.
To get any more of the significant monthly rewards or to upgrade the community "title" does require more activity including asking and providing solutions to problems,
No the algorithm for the reward system is not perfect and likely never will. To some extent the algorithm will always to able to be gamified to some extent.
Hopefully Public Mobile does make changes for the reward system. One of the better ways would to be expend the reward system and appreciated the true top contributes to the community more. The top contributors to the community for the time and effort that they put in deserve more than $15 to $20 off their plan. They probably use at least that of data each month to contribute to the community. They are a big part of Public Mobiles customer service and customer facing IT assistance. For the amount of money they save Public mobile it would be nice if they rewards more.
It is necessarily fair that the lower rewarded contributors receive basically $1 per a simple post while the top contributes could post 25+ post with more substance and receive only $15 to $20.
I do not believe it is a simple problem or solution. And I don't believe attacking those within the community that do exploit weakness of the reward algorithm is the solution.
Hopefully together as the community and with those within Public Mobile management we can work together to get a more comprehensive solution.
