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
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