Popup: Help the community by adding tags
A popup that comes in a few different forms came up wanting tags for a rated movie.
Have no problem with quid pro quo but:
- The popup had no link to the actual movie despite various typical points that normally would such as the movie photo, and movie title. Having a link back to the movie would help jog the memory...
- As was the case, had actually added more tags to the movie than the whole community. This seems a pointless affair, the likelihood of adding a new tag(s) to a movie is surely going to be much higher for a movie that a user has watched but has not added any tags too than one that they have well and truly exhausted ideas for tags. Which also brings up the point that, it would help to see tags that have already been personally added.
- There is obviously some [possibly inadvertent] psychology theory going on: make it as easy as possible for the user to help out, do not make it appear like their effort might not be worthwhile and try not allow them to get distracted. A popup could be considered annoying by some but it brings the donation box to the user, not showing a big pile of existing community tags [existing "donations"] avoids disincentivizing helping the community and not having links avoids distractions. That said, where a user has already given more than the community combined for a specific cause [a movie], asking for more is asking for 2-for-1 coupons [low quality / spammy / personal tags]. Surely if a user clicks on the movie, this is in good faith that they will make a donation of tags on the upcoming page and the chance of a larger donation than through the popup should offset the chance of being distracted on the movie page and adding new tags.
Finally, how about offering in that same popup multiple movies, or a next button. So in the case of the movie that tags were being sought, if if the user for whatever reason does not want to add tags, they can easily click to see the next movie that MovieLens wants tags for / has highest chance of tags being garnered [recently rated movie]. Having a link to the guide [if it still exists] for the various ways to help the community would also be good, or better still links to helping in an alternate form if a person is not keen on adding tags. Another tag related community involvement popup activity could be rating the three most popular existing tags as like / dislike about movie.
Thanks for the feedback. That feature is no longer live, as it was part of a short-term research experiment.
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Syscurve Software commented
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