It works at three levels:
1. Selfish... It's fine for people to play the game at level one, because they are also helping others learn and work their way up the skill ladder
Wow - that is a really cool observation. Atwood just went way up in my estimation for expressing this.
His response to the severe problem of way too many excellent and useful questions at SO getting unjustifiably closed is abysmal.
It totally misses the fact that online moderation, whether at SO or elsewhere, is often done by people who have no influence at all in the offline world. Being so powerless, they strive to obtain power online. This is often achievable through moderating sites with user-contributed content. By subjecting others to censorship, these moderators stroke their egos and try to lengthen th
Real programmers get everything done by 10:30 AM, and spend the rest of the day posting on Slashdot, levelling up on SO and working on personal github projects.
Actually, if a "real" programmer is going to have their work done by 10:30, they'll ask for more work at 9:00. It's only the bad programmers who are allowed to slack off for 3/4ths of the day since their time is considered less valuable.
Three cheers for selfishness! (Score:2, Interesting)
It works at three levels: 1. Selfish ... It's fine for people to play the game at level one, because they are also helping others learn and work their way up the skill ladder
Wow - that is a really cool observation. Atwood just went way up in my estimation for expressing this.
Three cheers for huge egos huge e-penises. (Score:1)
His response to the severe problem of way too many excellent and useful questions at SO getting unjustifiably closed is abysmal.
It totally misses the fact that online moderation, whether at SO or elsewhere, is often done by people who have no influence at all in the offline world. Being so powerless, they strive to obtain power online. This is often achievable through moderating sites with user-contributed content. By subjecting others to censorship, these moderators stroke their egos and try to lengthen th
Re: (Score:2)
Real programmers get everything done by 10:30 AM, and spend the rest of the day posting on Slashdot, levelling up on SO and working on personal github projects.
Re: Three cheers for huge egos huge e-penises. (Score:2)
Actually, if a "real" programmer is going to have their work done by 10:30, they'll ask for more work at 9:00. It's only the bad programmers who are allowed to slack off for 3/4ths of the day since their time is considered less valuable.