{"id":1425,"date":"2011-05-25T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T08:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2011-05-25T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T08:59:41","slug":"1001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/05\/25\/1001\/","title":{"rendered":"1,001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most &#8220;gamification&#8221; achievements I couldn&#8217;t care less about (and this is the Dirty Secret of gamification &#8211; most consumers don&#8217;t care), &#8230; but <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\">this is one of the few that I do<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-05-25-at-09.50.24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-05-25-at-09.50.24.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-05-25 at 09.50.24\" width=\"466\" height=\"125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-05-25-at-09.50.24.png 466w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-05-25-at-09.50.24-150x40.png 150w, https:\/\/t-machine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2011-05-25-at-09.50.24-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(and I post this in the full knowledge that it&#8217;s possible to game (i.e. cheat) your way to well over 2k rep on StackOverflow &#8230; but I&#8217;m chuffed anyway)<\/p>\n<p>Unlike my experiences of the SO clones, SO is *still* a very high signal-to-noise ratio, in my experience. And so I still care about it &#8211; and value the SO score on other peopl&#8217;s profiles<\/p>\n<p>(yeah, not-so-subtle hint: your SO score is now a standard part of any employer&#8217;s background checks, if they&#8217;re smart. Can make the difference between getting an interview or not, let alone getting the job)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most &#8220;gamification&#8221; achievements I couldn&#8217;t care less about (and this is the Dirty Secret of gamification &#8211; most consumers don&#8217;t care), &#8230; but this is one of the few that I do: (and I post this in the full knowledge that it&#8217;s possible to game (i.e. cheat) your way to well over 2k rep on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}