Fine Tuning The Rally
Posted by birdman at July 7th, 2008, in Rally Machine
We spend a lot of time tinkering in Carbonrally’s “engine room”, making small adjustments in hopes of improving the site. Today we are making two such adjustments. Like most changes, these are inspired by feedback from you.
Take up to 3 New Challenges a week
We’ve noticed that some people take as many 10 challenges when they first come to the site. This commitment to action is awesome, but we’ve found that some gung-ho rallyers are less likely to stick with the Rally after their big splash. So, in keeping with our mission of “Small Actions, Big Impact”, we are implementing a change that asks people to limit their new challenge commitments to 3 per week. This will not impact any of your repeatable challenges. You can always repeat a previously accepted challenge.
Change up to 45 Lightbulbs
The lightbulb challenge “Change a Few Bulbs” continues to be very popular. In fact, some people are changing all the bulbs in their house, and then changing bulbs in their friends’ houses too. Right on!
Claiming personal CO2 credit for bulbs changed by friends, however, is starting to wreak havoc on the score system. We’ve seen cases where folks accepted the challenge 80+ times. At 3 bulbs per challenge, that adds over 240 bulbs worth of CO2 credit to a single account. For this reason, we have created a limit of 15 acceptances for this challenge. This number is based on EPA estimates that an average US house has 45 lightbulbs. If you’d like your friends’ actions included in the Rally numbers, please encourage them join us!
2 Responses to “Fine Tuning The Rally”
I don’t know about you but I believe that limiting the amount of challenges one can make in a week’s time is limiting the amount of good one can do in the short amount of time there is available. The challenges I’ve taken so far are ones I’ve been practicing for many years and feel deprived of the opportunity to REALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Please do away with the limit on the number of challenges a person or business can make and maybe we can turn this around. PLEASE!
Hi Jennab. Thanks for your feedback about these changes. Part of the reason we are experimenting with these challenge limits is because we found that some people were not able to follow-through with large amounts of challenges all taken at the same time. We had many people “unaccepting” challenges or just abandoning Carbonrally altogther. So we decided to test some changes. We will continue to make adjustments and respond to feedback like yours to improve the way Carbonrally works, so please bear with us. Thanks. Jason
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