Individual Gamification

Murtaza Bambot It would be great to have a weighted system that reduces "cheating" in gamification. (Likes) for each engagement type (Comment, Post Creation, etc) could amplify the points scored. Gamifying 'quantity' overlooking 'quality' can convert a community to a Spam Fest!
Additionally we can have virtual currency. Admins can handout virtual community currency to folks, who can use it to purchase subscription, badges, or simply tip fellow community contributors.

If you decide to implement this kind of thing make it editable so we can use our own language. I would not want mine to sound "markety" or "salesy" its a big turn off to people who dislike "competition"

Murtaza Bambot Honestly, I prefer Heartbeat over Skool. However, what Skool does exceptionally well is the gamification with leaderboards and levels that unlock courses. The difference in community engagement is quite notable. Will you prioritize this soon?

Still no progress for gamification? This is by far one of the most important features to help "sustain" a community.

I love gamification but often find that it's very surface level in community apps I've used. Pie in the sky -> Would love to add custom goals the user could mark off or earn points for in addition to the integrated gamification ideas. For example - I have a community of people whos' goal it is to take 100 walks - would be awesome if I could set up 'I took a walk' button the user could add their walks with and when they reached 100 activate a celebration or a community shoutout. A less specific example might be a challenge users completed that wasn't integrated into the community site and if they complete it they earn a badge. https://xperiencify.com/ is a good site to look at for flexible gamification and visual celebrations

Great ideas have been share here, but some of these tactics won't work for every community. Please 🙏🏾 give us granular settings that we can customize for our communities. I'm concerned this functionality will roll out and there will an "all or nothing" setting that prevents me from implementing gamification in my community. With that said: I would like to see options for admins to set base points for specific actions, but other community members would drive the program by rewarding helpful members with a set amount of points. I would also like to set daily limits to prevent abuse. Members would have a set amount of points (determined by my team) they can give/receive each day.

Why is this no longer planned?

With options like skool using gamification, this is something my community really needs.

Or accountability daily tasks

Hey all! Gamification has been moved from Planned -> Open. After carefully considering the feature in our near term roadmap, we still haven't reached consensus on exactly how to implement it. Here's why:

In our experience running communities, we've seen incentive/gamification systems have a negative effect on long-term engagement in the community. In the short term, you get more comments and posts, but in the long term, you get a TON of low value conversation from people posting just to unlock rewards.

The communities that do this successfully usually build highly customized reward systems that is a generalized solution we could build for all Heartbeat customers.

While I know this is disappointing, we'd like to learn more about how you'd like to add gamification to your community. There are a few other feature requests that relate to rewards systems that you may be interested in:

Custom Badges (https://heartbeat.canny.io/feature-requests/p/custom-badges)

Member invites leaderboard (https://heartbeat.canny.io/feature-requests/p/members-invites-leaderboard)

If you don't see a specific idea in the existing feature request list, please add one or drop a reply here!

PLEASE familiarize yourself with the gamification principles in the book "Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards" by Yu-Kai Chou — there is way more to facilitating successful gamification than simply adding PBL's.