I thought it might be something like this, and FWIW am pretty sympathetic to this kind of concern :) Iâm on board with being over-cautious about (e.g.) both corruption and the appearance of corruption.
Iâm not dying on the hill of âall incentives should be cashâ, but it sure is difficult to come up with other incentives that are universally desirable.
Of course, the other optics /â reward-hacking evasion possibility is to offer absolutely trivial incentives. Give me a bronze pin for 1 referral, a silver pin for 5 referrals, and a gold pin for 20 :) This seems likely to work best if you think that âpeople who will bring us great referralsâ and âpeople who are already on board with helping 80k being a good and rewarding thingâ are heavily overlapping, and works less well if youâre particularly trying to reach people further outside of the usual 80k audience who wouldnât otherwise be interested or involved.
To that last point, Iâm particularly excited about fans of 80k being referrers for talented people with very little context. If you think a classmate/âcolleague is incredibly capable, but you donât back yourself to have a super productive conversation about impactful work with them, outsource that to us!
I thought it might be something like this, and FWIW am pretty sympathetic to this kind of concern :) Iâm on board with being over-cautious about (e.g.) both corruption and the appearance of corruption.
Iâm not dying on the hill of âall incentives should be cashâ, but it sure is difficult to come up with other incentives that are universally desirable.
Of course, the other optics /â reward-hacking evasion possibility is to offer absolutely trivial incentives. Give me a bronze pin for 1 referral, a silver pin for 5 referrals, and a gold pin for 20 :) This seems likely to work best if you think that âpeople who will bring us great referralsâ and âpeople who are already on board with helping 80k being a good and rewarding thingâ are heavily overlapping, and works less well if youâre particularly trying to reach people further outside of the usual 80k audience who wouldnât otherwise be interested or involved.
To that last point, Iâm particularly excited about fans of 80k being referrers for talented people with very little context. If you think a classmate/âcolleague is incredibly capable, but you donât back yourself to have a super productive conversation about impactful work with them, outsource that to us!