Freecodecamp: Proposition: Normalize user.progressPoints to user.brownies
In the beginning there were timestamps, initially just dumped straight timestamps in the array of what used to be called progress points when a camper completed a challenge.
Let there be thanks!, so then we started to give points to those who where thanked in the our chatrooms. This is when progress points were now officially called Brownie Points (BP). These need to store information in order to prevent someone from giving another camper infinite brownie points, so we stored these points as objects with giver, receiver in addition to timestamp.
Thou shalt Open Data, so we started to track challenge completed information in anticipation of releasing information to the public.
Though shalt Normalize. Now that we see some stability in how brownie points look, there is chatter about making BP's for algorithms, formally bonfires, and projects, formally ziplines/basejumps, count for more BP's than normal challenges, formally waypoints.
Since there is a need for uniformity, It might be a good idea to start a migration.
BerkeleyTrue
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Did someone say bronie?
ltegman
on 19 Jan 2016
Nice catch @ltegman :laughing:
However I really like this idea of having the uniformity @BerkeleyTrue :+1:
raisedadead
on 20 Jan 2016
Will these increased points for completing algorithms be retroactive to all the people who have already completed a number of algorithms?
Say I already completed 5 algorithms. Is my brownie score suddenly going to increase by an additional 5 points to account for the new brownie value of the algorithms which I have already completed?
BonMutti
on 21 Jan 2016
@OriBon yes, this is a migration that will cover all users.
BerkeleyTrue
on 21 Jan 2016
So, if I understand correctly, we're renaming "brownie points" to "waypoints"?
Also, we should consider explaining the current score system in the interim as mentioned in #12460.
It'll ease the transition if people understand before hand that little number they've been seeing forevermore, and we'd just update the info to add the new scoring afterwards.
yes, no, maybe? 馃槂
caravinci
on 10 Jan 2017
So, if I understand correctly, we're renaming "brownie points" to "waypoints"?
No, I think you got Berkeley's comments on the opening post wrong. In his wizard-ish talk, he meant normal challenges were called waypoints (back then). We had a theme and fancy wording for challenges then namely bonfires, ziplines, basejumps, waypoints. We moved on because we have now users who may not understand such terms (so a simpler standard naming was followed).
Here's what we plan to do (I think):
- The
user.progressPointswill be renamed touser.browniePointsin the code, to bring in uniformity. - They will updated as such in the DB.
- Finally, we may update points by not a value of 1, but a multiple of 5 or 10 to make it clear that these are scores, so, challenges may have increments of say 5 or 10 points, thanks in chat rooms may have 1 point and similar.
- If the last point is taken up, we will also migrate (normalize) all current users to such points (adding points to bring them at par, of such a system).
raisedadead
on 10 Jan 2017
Is there a preference as to how many points are awarded for the different types of challenges?
At the minute I'm giving step and video challenges 2 points, projects 10 and everything else 5.
Bouncey
on 10 Feb 2017
We've been discussing this recently on https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/issues/12460, and just so we can keep things sane, let's focus this issue on @Bouncey's question (how many points per accomplishment/event), and what that would look like in model and logic.
Thus, that other issue will be able to focus exclusively on UX and UI (such as where and how we're telling people they've received 10 points).
That said, Quincy's and I have agreed on awarding at minimum 10 point increments. Thus, regular challenges should give you 10 rather than 1. (i.e. add a 0). This would be the first step.
Then, if we were to implement higher increments, I propose 20 per thank you, 50 per algorithms and non-basic challenges, and 100 per project. Quincy also suggests 1000 per merged PR.
Any opposed? @freeCodeCamp/moderators
caravinci
on 21 Jun 2017
I'm closing this issue as stale since it hasn't been active lately. If you think this is still relevant to the newly updated platform, please explain why, then reopen it.
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on 3 Jun 2018
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Most helpful comment
We've been discussing this recently on https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/issues/12460, and just so we can keep things sane, let's focus this issue on @Bouncey's question (how many points per accomplishment/event), and what that would look like in model and logic.
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Any opposed? @freeCodeCamp/moderators