I do not like the fact that engagement is based on questions asked. People can be highly engaged without not knowing something. Also, it gives an incentive to "spam" questions in order to increase your engagement score (I've seen it, and without naming names it's very clear that this user did not care about the answers to the questions or their correctness, only about having the question posted). Can we come up with a better method to measure engagement?

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anonymous · Answer

Engagement should be based on how much the user interacts, not how many questions they post. For example, it would be better if the student that is helping 10 students a day had a better Engagement level, not the user that's posting 10 meaningless questions a day.

preetha · Answer

All good suggestions. Believe me, there are more inputs than what you see on the site!

anonymous · Answer

@TrashMan914 that's exactly what I"m thinking.

aravindg · Answer

(I've seen it, and without naming names it's very clear that this user did not care about the answers to the questions or their correctness, only about having the question posted).  

^^I saw this too.Believe me this user  achieved a great increase in the smartscore by doing this .Can any action be taken against this?

compassionate · Answer

Engagement should be directly tied to how much you talk in chat, how many questions you answer, and how often you login to OpenStudy. 

Now, the chat will contribute to significantly less than the questions you answer. To avoid this abuse, I suggest adding a button next to the medal button that says: "Was this user helpful." Unlike the medal button, the Helpful User button can be given to any number of people that happen to be in the thread.

If a user does not get a: This User Was Helpful or Helpful User medal, then he does not receive engagement points for that thread. 

Just my two cents.

aravindg · Answer

But what about the abuse that has already been done ?Should we leave it like that ?

anonymous · Answer

It's too hard to track. Basically, we may have spotted someone gaming the system, but there are probably dozens of other people who did the exact same thing. It would not be fair to the user we caught to penalize them but not the dozens of others who we didn't happen to see.

jaynator495 · Answer

whats with all these hilarious posts! x'D