I’m surprised by the low counts for Patient Skeleton. I would have thought stale PRs would be merged more frequently.
GitHub profile achievements
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Re: GitHub profile achievements
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
But life is not a game. You cannot get 100% completion of creating open source software. These statistics (as well as the real githu badges) are bad and not correlated with what the whole point of it all is.
There is no way that you can objectively state that "These statistics are bad."
These badges literally do not affect my life at all. Nor do they affect probably 99% of github users other than being an interesting thing to look at when they accidentally click the profile button.
I posted a screenshot on how to disable them if you'd like to.
What is the "whole point of it all?" Who are you to determine that, anyway? Maybe the point of it for some people is to code and have fun :)
Re: GitHub profile achievements
#63Why does everyone want to turn github in to gamified social media. The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.
I'm 100% with you in that this "gamify everything" thing sets my teeth on edge. But this can easily be ignored. Let the kids have their fun.
Re: GitHub profile achievements
#64Why does everyone want to turn github in to gamified social media. The resulting software is the achievement not sone bullshit badge.
Awards are powerfully gratifying and motivational, for some of us especially so. Symbolism is present in every civilization of every era for a reason.
> Awards are powerfully gratifying and motivational
I think this is true but only if they're not common and they come from your peers. But I'm no psychologist, so I'm really only asserting what's true for me, not for everyone.
Re: GitHub profile achievements
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's easy for it to devolve into an unhealthy distraction from real life. I know a few people who are out of school and unemployed and spend their days grinding in MMOs or collecting achievements. At least with GitHub you're presumably doing something productive to earn them.
Yeah I honestly find people going for 100% achievements to be absolutely strange to me. Same with New Game+ people. A lot of the time you have to play the game over and over again or do something horribly repetitive to get to 100% and people just do it. There are very few non-strategy games I ever want to play again as much as I enjoyed the first play through.
I feel like the people who don't like "gamifying" github think that that's the similar style of github badges. Someone even mentioned that "you can't 100% life" or some form of that. That is the furthest thing from the point of it in my opinion and experience.
But there are definitely a small portion people who go for that, I'm sure.
Re: GitHub profile achievements
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
But life is not a game. You cannot get 100% completion of creating open source software. These statistics (as well as the real githu badges) are bad and not correlated with what the whole point of it all is.
I find myself wondering what the point of it all is. If anybody knows, holler.
I know the point of it all, but make a point of not revealing it. Which points to its recursive nature, if you catch my drift.
Re: GitHub profile achievements
#67Having to scroll back to the top of the modals to close them is infuriating. Should just be able to click in the gray surrounding them to close them.
ho wow, I ran across ui failures of that kind, but usually it's on obscure 90s windows/oracle sub-platforms... this is mind blowing. M-x escape
Re: GitHub profile achievements
#68Paging hugoblanc, who has a heroic 14334 +1 comments out there: what drives you?
Most of the other users on that that list (#2,#3,#4,#5, and #7) all have forks of the cmssw repository from CERN. They must have some workflow that causes a lot of +1 or :thumb:
Re: GitHub profile achievements
#69Half of these "achievements" are simply highlighting spam/abuse on the platform which goes relatively unchecked since it still equates to usage & drives up metrics.
With the possible exception of patient skeleton, they're all badges of shame.
Re: GitHub profile achievements
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find myself wondering what the point of it all is. If anybody knows, holler.
I know the point of it all, but make a point of not revealing it. Which points to its recursive nature, if you catch my drift.
lol your username is perfect for this comment