GitHub profile achievements

#1

Post by cqcumbers » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 2:01 PM UTC

GitHub profile achievements
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Re: GitHub profile achievements

#2

Post by jacknews » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 2:37 PM UTC

just no

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#3

Post by laurent123456 » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 2:41 PM UTC

The "This is fine" achievement is funny but doesn't seem right. The top user ppdemo indeed has a repo where he apparently creates one issue every minute, but there's only a few open issues so he must be deleting them too:

https://github.com/pddemo/demo

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#4

Post by yuchi » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 2:44 PM UTC

laurent123456 wrote: post #3

The "This is fine" achievement is funny but doesn't seem right. The top user ppdemo indeed has a repo where he apparently creates one issue every minute, but there's only a few open issues so he must be deleting them too: https://github.com/pddemo/demo

You can see that issues’ numbers are through the roof.

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#5

Post by pohl » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 2:44 PM UTC

Paging hugoblanc, who has a heroic 14334 +1 comments out there: what drives you?

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#6

Post by azalemeth » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 2:45 PM UTC

laurent123456 wrote: post #3

The "This is fine" achievement is funny but doesn't seem right. The top user ppdemo indeed has a repo where he apparently creates one issue every minute, but there's only a few open issues so he must be deleting them too: https://github.com/pddemo/demo

And yet Microsoft's genuinely honest public-facing page is still in the top 13.

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#7

Post by moffkalast » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 2:46 PM UTC

pohl wrote: post #5

Paging hugoblanc, who has a heroic 14334 +1 comments out there: what drives you?

Well you know what his answer's gonna be.

+1

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#8

Post by clarke78 » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 2:48 PM UTC

Half of these "achievements" are simply highlighting spam/abuse on the platform which goes relatively unchecked since it still equates to usage & drives up metrics.

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#9

Post by cqcumbers » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 2:55 PM UTC

laurent123456 wrote: post #3

The "This is fine" achievement is funny but doesn't seem right. The top user ppdemo indeed has a repo where he apparently creates one issue every minute, but there's only a few open issues so he must be deleting them too: https://github.com/pddemo/demo

I did find that suspicious, but that repo has no closed issues either. I wonder if they’re being cleaned up by github in a way that bypasses the issue closed event, because I don’t think there’s a way to do that normally.

Re: GitHub profile achievements

#10

Post by treprinum » Tue, Jul 11, 2023, 2:59 PM UTC

Why does every little inconsequential thing have to be gamified to increase engagement? I couldn't care less about how many stars, arctic vault badges etc. do I get in a thing I use to hedge risk of losing my code and collaborate with others.