Posts tagged Keen Mountain Marathon
Magicalia have added game mechanics to participation in their online community site, OutdoorsMagic.
Billed as the Mountain Marathon, and sponsored by Keen, they’re keeping a league table of leading community members, awarding points for posting in the forums, adding reviews and contributing new routes. They also hint at levels and special badges, but don’t reveal exactly how these work, perhaps deliberately, perhaps because they haven’t worked them out yet!
There looks like there’s been a somewhat mixed reaction from the community, with some concerns that it will lead to lower-quality ‘participation for points’. But well done to the Magicalia team for experimenting. I’ll be curious to see how this develops and whether it gets rolled-out to the other Magicalia sites.
