What are the best ways to use gamification to drive engagement in a community?

Mini-games are a good way to drive engagement = investment = transactions. A good example is promo.suite.social

@tiagorbf does it well for his community WBE, with https://wannabe-entrepreneur.com... these stats !

It seems to me that all this will work fine if you add nft to it :)

Gamification is nice but has its limits. You will always have to improve the game or invent new ones. I think the focus should be on creating features or tools that gets embedded in the daily lives of users. This way it turns into a habit.

An idea we are mulling over for my company's dating app is using gamification to drive user engagement in the content moderation side of the experience. Our app is very open and is essentially a publishing platform (personal ads) so there is a huge potential for abuse (we've seen plenty already). Our community has both automated moderation mechanisms as well as user-centred mechanisms that rely on users reporting content that violates our terms. The gamification idea is to encourage users who report abusive content recognition in a way that is either private (sending messages thanking them for their diligence in their dms) or public (adding a badge to their published ads) or potentially giving them free upgrades that expire (ie: ad free experience for the month since we monetize with banner and rewarded video ads). One of our main pitches to the user is that we don't make them jump through hoops to connect with other users so we don't want to dilute that proposition by muddying the core experience of browsing ads/replying/posting/etc, but we do like the idea of rewarding users who value the platform's freedom and help to keep it open, as well as the idea that they will spend more time in app hunting out the infringing ads (potentially even globally since we allow global browsing) Basically, we want to use gamification to encourage loyalty rather than keep the user tied up in the app, and to give them recognition for helping us out in policing the system. Any thoughts on this "deputy" idea?