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patio11 on Feb 7, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using Game Mechanics To Teach Users MS Office

Game mechanics: not just for WoW and StackOverflow anymore. Read this -- it is worth your time.

varaon on Feb 7, 2010 [–]

I think you're referring to StackOverflow's points and badges; is there a deeper dynamic that you'd like to explain?

patio11 on Feb 8, 2010 | [–]

I'm just referring to points and badges as an incentive mechanism for directing user interaction of a site in ways which provide business value.

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