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Someone makes a joke post with parody github achievements. Someone else then uses a public dataset to see how many people have these parody achievement. Hacker
by that_guy_iain 3y ago
Someone makes a joke post with parody github achievements. Someone else then uses a public dataset to see how many people have these parody achievement.
Hacker News: "Gamifying everything is terrible"
I think getting angry about everything including parody github achievements is terrible.
- data_block 3y agoI think it shows how little the average HN user actually looks at the content that gets posted.
- bawolff 3y agoI think it just shows that people will talk about the interesting issue related to the topic even if its not the direct topic. People are not going to discuss a joke that's not particularly funny. It just isn't very interesting fruit for discussion.