http://www.slaughterdevelopment.com/2009/10/11/the-fun-theory/ Slaughter Development's review of the latest in workflow, productivity and methodology. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:04:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.slaughterdevelopment.com/2009/10/11/the-fun-theory/comment-page-1/#comment-223 John Uhri Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:50:52 +0000 http://www.slaughterdevelopment.com/?p=3028#comment-223 It is interesting to see sites like <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/" rel="nofollow">StackOverflow</a> who purposefully use game theory to reward the behaviors they want to see, and discourage the behaviors they don't. As users perform certain functions on StackOverflow, they earn badges. It increases user interactions on the site and, I believe, has lead to the successes they have seen. It is interesting to see sites like StackOverflow who purposefully use game theory to reward the behaviors they want to see, and discourage the behaviors they don’t. As users perform certain functions on StackOverflow, they earn badges. It increases user interactions on the site and, I believe, has lead to the successes they have seen.

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