Why does everyone want to turn github in to gamified social media. The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.
The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.
GitHub needs a Participation Badge.
GitHub profile achievements
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Re: GitHub profile achievements
#22Neat! People complaining about 'gamifying github' seem to be greatly over-estimating the author's goal here. Also neat to learn about the free dataset uploaded to https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/ .
I strongly prefer an ungamified GitHub, but can appreciate the OP's work (a nice site and some interesting stats). The two ideas are not mutually exclusive.
Re: GitHub profile achievements
#23Why does everyone want to turn github in to gamified social media. The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.
This is a joke website. The person who made it was making a joke.
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#24Why does everyone want to turn github in to gamified social media. The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.
because these achievements are potentially interesting metadata about your work. no one writes software for metadata. people write software, they push it to GitHub, and GitHub gives them achievements which may provide a fraction of a second of amusement. let people enjoy themselves a little, sheesh.
no one writes software for metadata
They didn't used to because there was no incentive to do anything but a good job.
Now there is an incentive to accumulate metadata. And just like thumbs on Facebook or points on StackOverflow, it will be gamed. It will be trolled.
All you've done is take the incentive of "earn a good reputation by publishing quality work" and open the platform to people who only care about "Ooh, shiny pieces of flair!"
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#25Arborist made me chuckle.
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#26Why does everyone want to turn github in to gamified social media. The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.
This is a joke website. The person who made it was making a joke.
No you don't understand we're engineers this is Serious Business and can only be conducted Seriously!
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#27Why does everyone want to turn github in to gamified social media. The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.
The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge. GitHub needs a Participation Badge.
This is, in the most basic sense, what the "user contributions" visualization on GitHub is.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
because these achievements are potentially interesting metadata about your work. no one writes software for metadata. people write software, they push it to GitHub, and GitHub gives them achievements which may provide a fraction of a second of amusement. let people enjoy themselves a little, sheesh.
no one writes software for metadata They didn't used to because there was no incentive to do anything but a good job. Now there is an incentive to accumulate metadata. And just like thumbs on Facebook or points on StackOverflow, it will be gamed. It will be trolled. All you've done is take the incentive of "earn a good reputation by publishing quality work" and open the platform to people who only care about "Ooh, sh…
I think you are dramatically overestimating the number of people who will do this.
I also think that you are dramatically underestimating the transparency of activity optimized for metrics. Those that do this will reveal this behavior by virtue of the nature of the behavior itself.
Dammit, it's OK for people to like stuff, even if you don't like that stuff. You don't like it! FINE! Others do, so let them live their own life, please.
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#29Why does everyone want to turn github in to gamified social media. The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.
Why do tens of millions of video gamers work to get to 100% completion and various goofy achievements in their games? Why does Spotify Rewind get posted every year?
Some of us find it fun and neat to see certain things/statistics we've achieved/ruined over time.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
because these achievements are potentially interesting metadata about your work. no one writes software for metadata. people write software, they push it to GitHub, and GitHub gives them achievements which may provide a fraction of a second of amusement. let people enjoy themselves a little, sheesh.
no one writes software for metadata They didn't used to because there was no incentive to do anything but a good job. Now there is an incentive to accumulate metadata. And just like thumbs on Facebook or points on StackOverflow, it will be gamed. It will be trolled. All you've done is take the incentive of "earn a good reputation by publishing quality work" and open the platform to people who only care about "Ooh, sh…
Who cares if 1% of people "game" it? Do you think people are actually looking up lists of achievements outside of gag websites like this and getting jealous that someone else has XYZ achievement to the point that they'll game the system themselves to get that achievement? And if they do, so what?
So maybe 1% of people do that. We should nuke it for the other 99% who literally just push code into a repo, go to their profile randomly and see that they've earned a new badge?
I have maybe 4-5 badges and I have literally no idea what the next one I'm closest to getting is. I don't even know what badges I'm missing. But it's still cool to me to see a new one show up.