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Can we please stop turning everything into a social media experience? Why the constant need for personal validation / ego gratification? It seems like almost every tool or platform these days needs a friends feature, bragging badges or other form of social validation.
I like this feature. I understand that it's not for everyone, but I also feel like people here tend to forget that GitHub is a social coding/collaboration platform as well. If you didn't like these features, why are your projects on GitHub then? Plenty of other git solutions. I see some comments worried about this feature being abused or misused in regards to "bad contributions" however those contributions would eith…
> If you didn't like these features, why are your projects on GitHub then Because it also works really well for solo projects or private projects. I chose GitHub many years ago not because they were social but because they were free and accessible. The competitors at the time were sourceforge and Google code and neither of them were as easy to use or simple. I use GitHub in spite of its dumb social features, not beca…
This is not stupid. It's not a waste of time. It doesn't matter if this leads to a proliferation of shit contributions. It doesn't matter if it encourages bad practices. It doesn't matter if you don't like it. It's smart. This is WHY Microsoft bought Github. Software is eating the world and Github is where most of the eating happens. There are many career paths that require you to live on Twitter or LinkedIn or whate…
I'm quite conflicted with this; while I agree that it's a smart move in terms of forcing user engagement, I think it sucks that Github is and seemingly will continue to be THE Git platform. I'd argue that other platforms such as Gitlab and even Azure DevOps provide a better overall experience, especially when it comes to CI/CD, so it's a little sad that the battle for users seems to be going into the 'social features…
Some people are making $300000+ a year working on these features. Think about it for a minute.
One of the achievements is 'YOLO': 'merged without a review'. We really shouldn't be encouraging this.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
True, but why do people think they need validation to collaborate?
I was really desperate to contribute to an open-source project in high school, specifically an iOS or frontend web one, and it was hard to find projects that I could make a substantial contribution to. Many with `good first issue` tags were not very active, and the ones that were active were hard to get my foot in the door. I was able to do a variety of "good first" things: readme updates, typo fixes, adding small fe…
Can we please stop turning everything into a social media experience? Why the constant need for personal validation / ego gratification? It seems like almost every tool or platform these days needs a friends feature, bragging badges or other form of social validation.
I like how this is the most upvoted comment
Edit:
I actually can't think of any such site _without_ comment voting today. Really that's because virtually every social media site now has a one-click way of engaging with comments (notably excluding 4chan). The difference between sites is in whether sorting by score is lacking, available, or part of an inscrutable algorithm; and what other ranking methods are available.
I can't find a single result relevant to the history of voting or user moderation in any search engine. Was Slashdot the first? It and Fark lacked this at launch in 1997;
- Slashdot handpicked 400 users to be moderators in 1999-03[0], and began randomly assigning moderation duty some time between then and the addition of moderation reasons in 1999-05[1]. Metamoderation was added in 1999-09.[2]
- Fark only added comment voting, with separate 'smart' and 'funny' votes, in 2011,[3] making it the only social news site AFAIK without negative votes.
[0] https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/03/23/1058204/slashdot-mo...
[1] https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/05/24/1848220/slashdot-no...
[2] https://slashdot.org/story/99/09/07/155233/slashdots-meta-mo...
[3] https://www.fark.com/comments/blog256/New-feature-Favoriting...
One of the achievements is 'YOLO': 'merged without a review'. We really shouldn't be encouraging this.
One of the achievements is 'YOLO': 'merged without a review'. We really shouldn't be encouraging this.