I think scores on github, stackoverflow and HN may be a net win for all concerned.
Twitter and Facebook scores on the other hand... a massive net loss for all but Twitter, FB, their employees and shareholders.
Twitter and Facebook scores on the other hand... a massive net loss for all but Twitter, FB, their employees and shareholders.
HN scores, to me, stop mattering past about 500, maybe 1000. By then you should know the guidelines, how to conduct some proper discourse, and should have dropped baggage from previous websites like Twitter or Reddit.
Is a potential employer ever going to look over every one of my commits to see what percentage are meaningful? Nope. Will a potential employer look and see a lot of green boxes and think that makes me more qualified or passionate? You bet your ass they will and have.
Is that good? I don't think so but I'll keep doing it as long as it helps me get paid.
What they'll do instead is look at a semi-random sampling of your repositories and commits. They don't need to look at every commit to get a statistically meaningful sampling of what your commits look like, and they can look at even less to get a vague, rough idea of what you're up to.
I understand that some people can't handle attention well, but people who can use it well clearly benefit from it by creating a business out of it, connections, or getting a job.
However, there are plenty that do. And I don’t understand them at all.
People who have a problem with that are usually, in my experience, the ones placing too much importance on stars, and then projecting that onto everyone else who actually have more apathetic, reasonable views.