RE: Facebook’s “Top Commentator” I didn’t even know there was such a thing. It j

RE: Facebook’s “Top Commentator”

I didn’t even know there was such a thing. It just appears next to my name. Hmmm….. Odd. Nice but … I mean, why didn’t I know it?

I have this same problem with Quora, but that Amazon addresses so well: “Gamify” posting so that it’s worth your while as a status perk. It also tends to reduce the idiot factor that you have to deal with when anyone can reply to your posts.

So it’s a real incentive and incentives matter. I might write to for the sole purpose of improving my writing, so that I gain skill at communicating complex ideas in increasingly simplistic terms. (I don’t have the luxury of a classes to teach where I can test my ideas.) But that doesn’t mean that it isn’t more rewarding to contribute to one network than another. It does.