How-To: Game the GovLoop Top 100 Rankings
Ever wondered how you get into the GovLoop Top 100 rankings?
Well, for those of you who are a little competitive or just like to feel as if you're making progress toward something (you know, like gold stars, good grades and general gaming domination), then this post is for you.
First, here's the breakdown of the point system:
So let me make it super easy for you to see the activity that gets you the most points:
1 - Post a blog. (25 points)
2 - Invite new people from within GovLoop. (20 points)
3 - Respond to a forum question. (15 points)
4 - Make comments, start a discussion, upload videos, and add events. (10 points)
5 - Friend a bunch of people, join groups, add photos, and get comments on your blogs or forums. (5 points)
And here's the real secret...are you ready? Want to know how almost all of the people in the Top 10 Hall of Fame got there?
They volunteered to be a GovLoop Greeter. They took a little time one day a week to post a message on a new member's Comment Wall. In fact, Amy Phillips has seen a meteoric rise to the number 2 spot by being our weekend greeter.
Want to join her? Click here.
Now...I'm pretty sure we can change this configuration...so I always have to ask a question:
How would you change this point allocation? What activities should get more (or fewer!) points?
Commenting? Friending? Joining Groups?
For instance, I might make posting a blog a bit less and increase friending or commenting...but I'm open to suggestions.
Let us know!
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Comment by Summer Gadsby Goodwin on January 30, 2012 at 1:12pm -
Do you get anything with points? What's the incentive besides self-promotion?
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Comment by Susan Thomas on August 13, 2011 at 11:04am -
Points don't drive me but I think the calculations are slightly off. Yesterday, I posted four comments to discussions and got one new "friend". I received five points for the day. Can anyone explain?
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Comment by Susan Thomas on August 12, 2011 at 5:06pm
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@Sam, Sometimes my points do not update until the next day.
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Comment by Sam Allgood on June 29, 2011 at 10:41am -
Another possibility to consider is awarding points for gifts received / given to promote recognition of others in a more tangible way.
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Comment by Allen Sheaprd on June 27, 2011 at 9:16am -
Great tips. Comments and reaching out to others works wonders.
Points are just recognition for who you are what you do. The discussion on "What makes a bad web site" still holds true - recognize others or fail.
It costs nothing to say Hi, welcome. Feel free to brows either by topic or the discussion links along the right side of the web page.
This is what I like about GovLoop - Volunteer, Pandemic and Disaster recovery goups. Hope you stop by and take a look.
How can it be a compitition when there is no group higher than 10K ? 50K Sr. Hall of fame? 100k Master Hall of Fame. 150K GovLoop Foundation Stone? (Want to save 1M points for Valhalla lord) Come on, plan for Gov Loop's 7th, 10th and 15th year! Remeber how long it took to fix things after Bill Gates said "PC will *never need more than 640K of memory" ??
What about a newbie top 100? When GovLoop started just having 500 points got you into the top 100. Now one needs 3,500+ That keeps alot of people out. Pretty high entrance fee.
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Comment by T. Jay Johnson on June 26, 2011 at 10:21pm -
I was wondering about the point breakdown. Thanks, I guess I'd better get busy on my blog posts :-)
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Comment by GovLoop on June 26, 2011 at 2:32pm -
10,000 points and you get into the Hall of Fame. I'm still waiting for someone to catch up tome - Amy is getting close
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Comment by Stephen Peteritas on June 16, 2011 at 1:08pm -
That would be amazing Sam, thanks you rock!
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Comment by Sam Allgood on June 16, 2011 at 12:50pm
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OK, @Stephen. Shall I send it to your GovLoop email account?
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Comment by Stephen Peteritas on June 16, 2011 at 11:38am
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Sam- I know it's a pain but I spoke with ning yesterday and they said they need specific examples of actions where points were not accrued. If you have any of those I'll forward them on... as much of a pain as it it time stamps and screen grab would be a massive help. I'm trying to replicate with profile as I think this isn't a singular person issue.
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