Big fan of what you describe in the end or something similar.
It’s still not great, and it would still be hard to distinguish the people who opted-in and received the codes but decided not to use them from the people who just decided to not receive their codes in the first place
Not sure whether you mean it’s hard from the technical side to track who received their code and who didn’t (which would be surprising) or whether you mean distinguishing between people who opted out and people who opted in but decided not to see the code. If the latter: Any downside to just making it clear in the email that not receiving your code is treated as opting out? People who don’t read the email text should presumably not count anyway.
On the trust-building and adding to the voices in favor of making it opt-in: I like many aspects of this game, including the fact that doing the right thing is at least plausibly “do nothing and don’t tell anyone you’ve done/you’re doing the right thing.” But currently, the combination of no opt-in/opt-out and that it’s not anonymous doesn’t really make it feel like a trust-building exercise to me. It feels more like “Don’t push the button because people will seriously hate you if you do” and also “people will also get angry if you push the button because of an honest mistake, so it’s probably best to just protect yourself from information for a day” (see last year—although maybe people were more upset about the wording in some of the messages the person who pushed sent rather than being tricked into pushing itself?), which isn’t great. So, I think the lack of opt-in/out makes lots of people upset + it ruins the original purpose of this event IMO, and everyone is unhappy.
Big fan of what you describe in the end or something similar.
Not sure whether you mean it’s hard from the technical side to track who received their code and who didn’t (which would be surprising) or whether you mean distinguishing between people who opted out and people who opted in but decided not to see the code. If the latter: Any downside to just making it clear in the email that not receiving your code is treated as opting out? People who don’t read the email text should presumably not count anyway.
On the trust-building and adding to the voices in favor of making it opt-in: I like many aspects of this game, including the fact that doing the right thing is at least plausibly “do nothing and don’t tell anyone you’ve done/you’re doing the right thing.” But currently, the combination of no opt-in/opt-out and that it’s not anonymous doesn’t really make it feel like a trust-building exercise to me. It feels more like “Don’t push the button because people will seriously hate you if you do” and also “people will also get angry if you push the button because of an honest mistake, so it’s probably best to just protect yourself from information for a day” (see last year—although maybe people were more upset about the wording in some of the messages the person who pushed sent rather than being tricked into pushing itself?), which isn’t great. So, I think the lack of opt-in/out makes lots of people upset + it ruins the original purpose of this event IMO, and everyone is unhappy.