It's pretty neat when you get upvotes on answers you made months or years ago; a substantial number of them represent someone being helped out by your answer. I

It's pretty neat when you get upvotes on answers you made months or years ago; a substantial number of them represent someone being helped out by your answer. I think that's pretty neat. For years the open source tool I spent the most time on was one I only very occasionally used myself, but got a lot of feedback and questions. Because this was a non-technical tool most of it was over email, and translated in fairly few "stars" (although I did migrate to GitHub quite late). All of this makes it rather different from voting on HN.