"Sadly, this is the form of status that I seek." It just goes to show you have to pick the right peer group to achieve the things you want, as people will want

"Sadly, this is the form of status that I seek." It just goes to show you have to pick the right peer group to achieve the things you want, as people will want most to impress their peer group. I've often caught myself with that and Hacker News, dreaming of hacking together something that would yield a good scoring submission on HN, but ultimately would be unimportant.