CoderSumo
has a clever idea.
To join their community, you
have to solve this simple coding challenge.
If you want to restrict spammers, deter less committed
members, and attract the best people – challenge newcomers to complete a task.
Initiation rituals create cognitive dissonance. People don’t
want to feel they wasted the effort to pass the ritual, so they feel a stronger
attraction to the group.
You can’t ask members to code, but what about asking
newcomers to submit their biggest success, solve a simple problem, write two
paragraphs about a topic, or analyze a current situation/data and produce an
answer.
The more difficult the
challenge, the more committed the members that pass it.
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