Shower Thought About the Yoyo Wiki

[SpyseaRice (Jon)]

@eternalmetal

Call me a cynic, but ive seen way too many online communities talk about this kind of thing and are never able to realize it. The Throwdex was an awesome idea, but you have the older and dead yoyo museum project that has 10 times the amount of throws. In modern days a yoyo trick database would need to be a community of itself. Im not sure that it could ever work, but the idea is nice.

Yeah, I’m also worried about that happening here. That’s why I’m saying this project needs the support and publicity of established yoyo companies/personalities. I still think it’s crazy that I’d never heard of the Throwdex until someone brought it up on the forums a bit ago when this project is the sort of thing that should be very present in the yoyo pop culture. And I think its current position is due to a lack of proper marketing, rather than some exterior malicious intent.

@edhaponik

It’s kinda self-limiting in the fact that the people who know the most about this or that spend nearly all of their time pouring themselves INTO this or that. It’s really hard to push the boundaries of something and simultaneously reflect on it objectively. The idea of “META” is constantly adapting, and for the ones evolving it to simultaneously keep tabs on it, it becomes like trying to bite their own teeth.

1. I think that for all the hardcore players out there pushing the boundaries of yoyo to the point where they don’t have time to log what they know of what they’ve done, there are just as many “casual” people who enjoy keeping up with the trends and might already keep such logs mentally. It seems to me that the issue is the lack of an established platform.
2. But I also think these people have lacked a proper incentive to contribute. Throwdex is great and all, but one of its biggest flaws is the lack of personalness. Accounts only enable you to add to the yoyo encyclopedia and don’t serve any social purpose, not even enabling users to see logs of what they’ve contributed. A platform that allows for personalization and profiles would not only give its users more reason to be invested in their contributions but could also see use as a digital record of yoyo collections, facilitating digital yoyo socialization. Outside of these social incentives, tying contributions to users enables them to be credited for their efforts, possibly through money. For example, if yoyoexpert were to promote a trick-logging website, it could use small gift cards to reward users that make a certain amount of meaningful contributions, incentivizing people to not only participate but also encourage thoughtful responses. That said, it’s just a hypothetical right now, and I don’t fully understand how introducing monetary incentives could impact the longevity or stability of the system. What are your thoughts?