Deiml-Seibt, TinaPschetz, LarissaMüller, BorisWandke, HartmutKain, SaskiaStruve, Doreen2017-11-222017-11-222009978-3-486-59222-1https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/6738Mechanisms to motivate user participation became a necessary strategy for the evolution and sustainability of many online systems. Nowadays, most of these mechanisms are based on user activity displays, which take, for example, the form of badges or ranking scores. In this paper we discuss the current use of activity displays as incentives for user participation, and present IntroText, an alternative conversational approach.enInterface DesignSocial SoftwareIncentiveUser ActivityTrackingText/Workshop Paper