I’m a little miffed at Duolingo for torpedoing my progress this week. I had set the goal of hitting 100,000 XP in a week. Let’s put aside the whether that’s nuts or not — after a few years of using the app, I wanted to push it boundaries. I got to 92,000 points and found myself yanked from the leaderboard. I’m not sure if it was algorithmic or an administrative reaction to a user complaint , but it was really disheartening since I had invested not an insignificant amount of time owling my way up all week. I’m not the one that gamified Duolingo — they are — so it seems ingenuous of them to react poorly to someone gaming the game.
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