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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by hermanradtke on Sunday October 23, 2022 @09:45PM (#33312135)
I don’t disagree that GitHub should tone down the gamification. However, I do disagree with this:

> which shows an extremely flawed gauge of the work you're doing (Code review, Issues, etc)

Reviewing code and triaging issues is real work.

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Re:Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evid... by lupire on Sunday October 23, 2022 @10:10PM (#33312274)
Isn't designing and programming also real work?
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