Question

Okay so I've been meaning to ask this but I've been putting it of.. Until now.
So I love the idea of the trophies, but ever since i first came to OS I've always wanted to see my SmartScore progress.
For Example,
I'd like to go to my profile and see how many more questions I need to answer, how many more people i would need to help, how many more trophies i would need, how many more people i'd need to fan, and how many more fans i need to get before my SmartScore goes up a point.
I think it would definitel help alot of people with escalating their smart scores and as well for motivation to

Answer 1

help more people.

Its just a suggestion, but can it happen?

Answer 2

@Preetha

Answer 3

@tkhunny

Answer 4

I can't help you. I just ignore mine. I'm not here to ask questions, so I don't expect my "Engagement" component will ever increase much. Plus, I'm deliberately a little annoying, so I don't really expect fans or testimonials. It might be a fun feature for some, I suppose.

Answer 5

It's not a bad idea, but SmartScore is relative, so it'll be difficult.

Answer 6

It isn't a bad idea.. but I think that if people knew how much more medals they needed in order to raise to a certain score, there would be even more reason to medal spam.
I find not knowing a definite number to be more motivating, actually. It makes me want to work harder, because I always expect that much more is needed. Personally, I already find this site addicting, but if I knew a definite number of how much more I'd need, I'd have even more reason to stay on here all the time.
Also, \(\bf\color{cyan}{OpenStudy}\) isn't really about raising your SmartScore.. it's about \(\bf\color{magenta}{helping}\) people and \(\bf\color{lime}{learning}\), so by giving people a number, it motivates people to raise their \(\bf\color{red}{own}\) score rather than \(\bf\color{blueviolet}{purely}\) to \(\bf\color{magenta}{help}\) and \(\bf\color{lime}{learn}\).

Still, you bring an interesting idea.

Answer 7

It works like this:
SmartScore is directly proportional to a specific value called Points.
You can find your points value when you go to the chrome developer tools console and type the following: os.userById('username').smarts().points; and then hit enter.

For example: os.userById('thomaster').smarts().points;
It will return 2264979, this is my current points value.
Now 2.26 million points is way more than enough for a score of 99.

You can increase your points in a lot of ways, some actions give more points, some give less. I didn't figure them all out, but here are some things I already confirmed:

+ 0 Sending or getting a private message
+ 0 Bump Question
+ 0 Giving a medal
+ 0 Replying in your own question
+ 1 Every chat message you post
+ 20 Closing a question
+ 25 Asking a question
+ 25 Giving a testimonial
+ 50 Replying in someone else's question
+ 65 Getting a testimonial
+ 65 Fanning someone
+ 100 Getting a medal in your own question
+ 200 Getting a fan
+ 285 Getting a medal
+ 750 Getting a medal from the question asker

If you log every action and check at what score someone's smartscore is rising, you can determine at what point you will level up.

Answer 8

According to that count, There should be a count that says how many more points you need to level up. And i completely agree with you @Whitemonsterbunny17 but... If there was this then people would try harder to get a higher smartscore. Some people just give up and do not want to excel and get to level so and so. Or there could just be something like this: