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> that's an average of ~22.8 answers per day, every day, for the last 3144 days Gordon Linoff wrote a bit about his habits here[0] but I still can't fathom how

> that's an average of ~22.8 answers per day, every day, for the last 3144 days Gordon Linoff wrote a bit about his habits here[0] but I still can't fathom how he manages to maintain such a rate. Imagine just taking a day or two off – you would then have to write 45 (or 68 answers) the following day. So assuming that he does take a day off every once in a while, this means on non-vacation days his average is even higher. [0] https://blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack-overflow.html https://blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack... (I'm gettting an EOF / Connection Closed error in both FF and Chrome but the Internet Archive has it cached.)

cheez 6y ago
http://blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack-overflow.html http://blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack-... remove https
- codethief 6y ago
  Oh, it was "HTTPS Everywhere" which kept on redirecting me to the https version without me noticing! Thanks a lot!
op03 6y ago
Its like sports. You ask someone at the top of their game why they keep doing it and all of them wont have any great answer. Its like once your brain gets used to doing anything well it just keeps doing it.
- codethief 6y ago
  That's certainly a good point and might explain how Linoff has managed to keep up his motivation over the years. Nevertheless, I wasn't asking about the why, I was asking how. :)
vii 6y ago
The blog post describes him trying to catch up the deficit from vacation days away from the Internet. StackOverflow has done a great job with the points incentives. As noted in this blog, the daily cap on points is important - it's valuable to put the brakes on people who are too into it and in danger of burning out. Candy Crush does the same thing. A few years ago, I asked Joel Spolsky what he might do differently: he mentioned that getting to a million points is a magical number for many people but it's too tough on StackOverflow. If the point system were set up to be more generous, more people could achieve this milestone and more valuable contributors would have this somewhat arbitrary but enjoyable recognition

cheez 6y ago

http://blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack-overflow.html http://blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack-... remove https

codethief 6y ago
Oh, it was "HTTPS Everywhere" which kept on redirecting me to the https version without me noticing! Thanks a lot!

op03 6y ago

Its like sports. You ask someone at the top of their game why they keep doing it and all of them wont have any great answer. Its like once your brain gets used to doing anything well it just keeps doing it.

codethief 6y ago
That's certainly a good point and might explain how Linoff has managed to keep up his motivation over the years. Nevertheless, I wasn't asking about the why, I was asking how. :)

vii 6y ago

The blog post describes him trying to catch up the deficit from vacation days away from the Internet. StackOverflow has done a great job with the points incentives. As noted in this blog, the daily cap on points is important - it's valuable to put the brakes on people who are too into it and in danger of burning out. Candy Crush does the same thing. A few years ago, I asked Joel Spolsky what he might do differently: he mentioned that getting to a million points is a magical number for many people but it's too tough on StackOverflow. If the point system were set up to be more generous, more people could achieve this milestone and more valuable contributors would have this somewhat arbitrary but enjoyable recognition