Comment on Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app
taiyang@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Honestly, gamification is good but this is just stupid. Humans respond to gamification for a reason, it can add a sense of accomplishment or help you lay out goals, etc. If you gave that to, say, a non-profit looking to motivate volunteers who clean up the beach or something, it’s a net gain for society.
But this? What accomplishment or goal do you get for eating shitty donuts 500 times? I’d like to meet the man (and it most certainly is a man) who is proud of his 500th Duncan trip. I’ll buy him a dose of insulin (but only the subsidized stuff).
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
It’s so rife for abuse I’m not sure I’d even say “good”. Effective, maybe?
taiyang@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Well I suppose good and bad are usually in the application of a tool rather than the tool itself. I’ve just seen it used for good enough to know what was shown here isn’t that, haha.