Tasks / Remove A Task: The Task
The mechanics of SF0 depend sensitively on the distribution of tasks and points. Too many easy tasks and high level players will neglect the hard tasks. Too few, and players will be unable to reach the difficult tasks.
Help restore balance to the game by nominating a task for retirement. Your nomination should review all completions of the task, including highlights and low points, and assess what we collectively can learn from this task.
1 players
15 points
Level 3
Created by Oliver X
12 completed :: 0 in progress
Interested in collaborating on this: (no one yet!)
this task is retired
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is the system prepared for this? If a task were retired would players lose their points earned for that task?
I am not sure if this is alignment with Oliver X's intention for this task, but I'll throw it out there:
I suggest that the word "Remove" changes to "Archive." An archived task would remain on the system and viewable but you can no longer choose to complete it. Points awarded from the task would still remain. When the task is viewed on player's pages there could be a strikethrough on the name of the task.
This preserves players' histories and scores, allows for viewing-only of archived tasks (instead of outright removing them) and newer players can see what kinds of tasks were archived and why they were.
My $0.02.
Prank Monkey-
Thanks. I've thought about it more - and this is very, very similar to how geocaching.com and livejournal.com work with archived geocaches and deleted accounts respectfully. So the idea isn't exactly fresh. I'm also trying to convince the developers of dodgeball.com to do the same thing with closed venues.
Ian/Sam/Sean - what do you think?
Praxis
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YES.