# Celebrate helpers without turning care into a competition Proposed recognition policy. People like to be seen. Recognition can thank a person, help others find a good example, and give a team a moment of shared delight. It can also distort work when public praise becomes the scarce prize everyone is asked to chase. Giggles can celebrate useful effort without pretending that visible contribution is the same thing as total contribution. Canonical page: https://givegigs.com/wiki/necro-chapter-giggles-recognition Last updated: 2026-11-09T18:58:12.584Z Parent topic: [necromancer-storyworld](https://givegigs.com/wiki/necromancer-storyworld) ## Contents - [Overview](#wiki-section-overview-1) - [Chapter notes](#wiki-section-chapter-notes-2) - [Dossier section](#wiki-section-dossier-link-3) ## Overview Proposed recognition policy. This page expands the “Celebrate helpers without turning care into a competition” chapter in the storyworld collection. ## Chapter notes People like to be seen. Recognition can thank a person, help others find a good example, and give a team a moment of shared delight. It can also distort work when public praise becomes the scarce prize everyone is asked to chase. Giggles can celebrate useful effort without pretending that visible contribution is the same thing as total contribution. A recognition practice should ask permission before naming someone, describe the action specifically, and avoid publishing personal details the person did not offer for that purpose. It should make space for maintenance, coordination, listening, and behind-the-scenes work. A thank-you should not quietly become a promise of future availability: one generous afternoon does not make a person the community’s permanent unpaid help desk. Leaderboards are especially poor instruments for measuring kindness. They reward what is countable, invite strategic behavior, and can make someone with more free time look more virtuous than someone carrying care work elsewhere. If a project tracks task completion for operational reasons, it should describe the metric narrowly and never present it as a ranking of human worth. The project can test recognition messages through voluntary feedback: did the person feel accurately credited, respected, and free to decline future requests? This is a local learning question, not a universal effect established by the mascot. Giggles can still hand out a gold star, provided the star is a joke, the recipient wants it, and nobody’s basic dignity depends on earning one. ## Dossier section [Open this exact section in the Necromancer dossier](/necromancer#giggles-recognition). The original chapter status is “Proposed recognition policy.” ## Sources - [Necromancer dossier section](/necromancer#giggles-recognition) --- This article is collaboratively maintained. Check the canonical page and cited sources for the latest context.