Re:Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff
by vii on Sunday August 23, 2020 @03:46PM
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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
Re:Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff
by codethief on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:37PM
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Oh, it was "HTTPS Everywhere" which kept on redirecting me to the https version without me noticing! Thanks a lot!
Re:Congratulations for reaching a million, Gordon Linoff
by op03 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @03:11PM
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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.
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... (I'm gettting an EOF / Connection Closed error in both FF and Chrome but the Internet Archive has it cached.)