City pages now each have their own community leaderboard, which shows the community members most active in that city in terms of adding, spotting and improving artworks.
Accessing the leaderboard
You can access it through the ‘Leaderboard‘ button on city websites, and the same button will start showing up in the app in the next week.
The leaderboard is still very simple at the moment, and we’re looking forward to expanding it, so please let me know if you have thoughts and ideas!
The leaderboard is meant to encourage positive contributions to the community. Any abuse of the system, such as spamming low-quality artworks or falsely marking artworks as seen, may result in being blocked.
Adding a new artwork: 5 points
Community note added: 2 points
Artwork marked as seen: 1 point
The leaderboard is updated once a day at midnight UTC.
As Country Managers / Administrator we are gonna check the uploaded artworks more often on the quality? Working with rankings/points leads almost always to lack of quality.
Eventually that would be really cool yeah! Probably takes a bit more effort to come up with scoring that makes sense, so let’s definitely talk about this next week!
Hopefully this is a first step in the direction of what you were thinking, though?
I share the fears to be honest, feels like it could lead to gamification of the app.
For me I think if the quality of the uploads on the app is our guiding principle it would be better to find a reward system based on quality of upload (tags used, creation date added, artist identified),
This leaderboard encourages quantity over quality, or people just spamming the seen button without visiting works, which will make it harder to keep the map accurate when people claim to still be seeing works that don’t exist!
Respect for the efforts behind creating this and hopefully it won’t be abused.
Fully agree with this and with @Stef’s similar comment.
What we hope this addresses is a way to get the large group of the community that uses the app to explore more involved in marking artworks as seen and leaving community notes.
However, if that leads to spam, that’s a huge problem indeed. At the moment, my thinking is to introduce a system in the next couple of weeks that only gives you points if you leave a ‘seen‘ or community note whilst physically close to the artwork.
It might also turn out though that this leaderboard is just a bad idea altogether – it only took about 2 hours to set this up, so always happy to tear down these experiments if they don’t work!
I was not aware that this idea would be implemented immediately. I am not totally against it, but this should have be talking through like how we should moderate this as CM / Admin team. Could we move that leaderboard to 2026?
Few days ago, we had artwork which was removed in Bremen, and next day marked as seen. Food for thought… .
Happy to pause this feature for now, but also happy to continue to monitor if it changes peoples’ behaviour and make changes based on that. I’m personally always more of a fan of the latter option, but don’t want to give people extra work or uncertainty.
One of the quality issues we are struggling with is the (too many) Blanco artists fields, the not correct used Unknown - City, the too many Unknown - Cities.
These artworks are immediately live. A Blanco artist field is supposed to end up in drafts. A draft upload couldn’t earn points to my opinion, an unknown also not. Maybe one of the things we should review?
Agree with the comments from Stef and Chalkster, we could be rewarding the wrong actions here. For example I think that marking an artwork as “Removed” is just as valuable (from a quality of data perspective) as adding a new artwork.
Agree with Stef about the blank artist fields and “Unknown - City” volumes from some hunters too.
Agree with Stef that a completely blank artist name should result in Draft only.
I recently found a really old Melbourne record with a blank artist name, and would love to have a way to search for them to seek out any more (even in the CM dashboard as well as hunter dashboard so I could quality check other cities too).
Perhaps some “quality” measures could be introduced per city that might drive positive behaviours, two might be “Percentage of Unknowns” and “Percentage of Blanks”.
I’ve been a big fan of this from day one, because if the right metrics are being used it can improve engagement.
Like I said, I’ve been experimenting behind the scenes with a bunch of data inputs which have different impact/ values, where quality is more important then quality.
I’d leave it for now as a teaser for what’s coming…
I totally understand the Andrew, Stef, Chalkster, but before changing it or removing it, I would say: give it a chance. Let’s keep an eye on platform usage, and if we see people trying to game the system, we’ll improve it or get it offline. For now I think it is great to this added!
This should have been talking through, and the parameters wisely discussed with people who are daily confronted with the content of the app/web.
As Admin and CM team it’s really difficult to moderate and contact the hunters.
What is the advantage of put a new gamble online? Who is gonna moderate it? We don’t have to push it to the limits. To be continued.
Some features are just being rolled out to see the impact. Look at the ‘best off, we never talked this through, and I just went for it. And the impact today is unforseen.
This leaderboard is new and could actually be a good feature and when calculated properly could actually reduce the workload of CM’s in the future.
Maybe not next year, but I’m confident it will.
But all feedback is noted and will be taken in account….
We have a different reality now. There is a new CM team, Perfect opportunity to hear their voices before something is implemented. Solving things (current quality problems actually) afterwards and play with volunteers their time is not the way to go. Missed chance.
The impact of many new hunters is clear I guess: even with a great CM team, it’s difficult to control the quality.
Adding a new artwork: 5 points
for the efforts behind creating this and hopefully it won’t be abused.