Elicitation Notes - altanborali16/SWE574-Group2 GitHub Wiki

Recommendation System

User Profile Enrichment

Enhance user profiles by incorporating interest areas and occupation details (e.g., student, engineer).
Before users explicitly establish their interests, their feed can include highly interacted posts from other communities.
During registration, we can prompt users to select their interests.

Community Interest Tags

Gamification and Reputation System

Badges: Community-specific and generic badges (e.g., top votes, top contributor). ****Each community will design their own community-specific badges. (We haven't discussed who is authorized to design badges, but it's assumed that moderators and admins will have this privilege by default.)

@efestrikesback's notes

The system shall have a content recommendation mechanism.
By leveraging the content recommendation mechanism, the system will show the user posts relevant to the user's interests. The recommended content will be displayed on the homepage, and inside a community the user visits.
The content recommendation mechanism may be based on user interests in the user profile; user location; user activity history; tags of posts created by the user; or recently popular posts based on all the aforementioned.
To facilitate content recommendation, the system may present the user with a list of interests to select when creating a user profile.

The system shall have a system-wide reputation mechanism.
The reputation mechanism shall be based on the number of upvotes received by a user for his/her posts.
On a community level, the system shall allow the community administrator to award honour badges to users to mark their contribution to the community.

@kotobusdriver's notes