For my mobile app that has public rooms for peeps to chat & create art & post media, I would like to create a mechanic to encourage people helping each other / interacting with each other. Im thinking of reciprocity here: - app popup - app gives user 1 token (free) - to generate awesome selfie with an awesome style from a public room - app gaves user 1 token (+1 special token) - to donate to another user - who's post user liked - - public comment/msg in room user A donated to user B recognition for donating user via public message. Basically core idea here is to give a "free" token to a user so it can donate it to another user for a good post/picture. What shall I consider in addition to "reciprocity" here and what psychological patterns to dive into to develop better mechanics?

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For my mobile app that has public rooms for peeps to chat & create art & post media, I would like to create a mechanic to encourage people helping each other / interacting with each other. Im thinking...

Worth building: No

Your mechanic has potential but risks gaming. Focus on signal amplification over transactional reciprocity.

Assessment grounded in independent analysis from mark-zuck, jamie-dimon, jensen-huang

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