Hi Dan!
We have a few ideas with this respect concerning the STEMsocial app (proposal #91). We actually already have various badges made by our designer to represent a part of the rewards attached to some goals. The next step is to figure out what those goals are and get some more concrete associated rewards on top of a badge.
What we have in mind is to associate gamification with engagement and a homemade reputation metric. It is of course not like a game in the pure sense of it, but it matches the goal of the STEMsocial project (science communication on Hive within a very-alive community). Any other idea is more than welcome, of course!
PS: those badges and gamification stuff are not explicitly indicated on the project roadmap, but it is on our longer internal to-do list. We started this with our Honour Members initiative, which was resurrected 10 days ago (see here for more information).
I am happy you made emphasis on the above
With right support, we can once again make hive more interesting to the Newbies.
Stemsocial so far has really demonstrated their willingness to support newbies and guide them on how to maximize the benefits that comes with hive and dropping good post by once again reigniting her honorable member functions.
I believe support to the community will make their goals realistic.
I believe these ideas will not only lead to on-boarding of new users but will lead to massive adoption of the hive blockchain. This is why I support the proposal.
I think this will be great.