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This article is flawed in it's assumption that the reward is the same across every network. The pride felt in a contribution on GitHub that benefits one user w
by caleblloyd 9y ago
This article is flawed in it's assumption that the reward is the same across every network. The pride felt in a contribution on GitHub that benefits one user who appreciates your code is 1000x more gratifying than a point from a comment on HN. The pride felt in an answer upvoted a handful of times on StackOverflow is similar.
- syockit 9y agoI don't know if that sense of satisfaction you get from helping someone in trouble can be called pride, but I know that that one joke answer that got me a gold badge gave me a mixed feeling of irony, and a bit of guilt.