[utdiscant]

Interesting! All of those things make sense, and combining a bunch of incentives and gamification elements like this is probably the way to super-charge completion.

On the contrary, I am a bit skeptical personally about the long-term effects of adding gamification to everything we do. In the end, intrinsic motivation is the strongest force, and I worry (mostly on a personal level) that so much pressure on external motivating factors will make us immune eventually.

In Peergrade, we had a small amount of built-in gamification like this. We would show you how much feedback you had provided compared to the class average. This led to fairly significant improvements in both feedback amounts and quality.