[that_guy_iain]

Someone makes a joke post with parody github achievements. Someone else then uses a public dataset to see how many people have these parody achievement.

Hacker News: "Gamifying everything is terrible"

I think getting angry about everything including parody github achievements is terrible.

[data_block]

I think it shows how little the average HN user actually looks at the content that gets posted.

[bawolff]

I think it just shows that people will talk about the interesting issue related to the topic even if its not the direct topic.

People are not going to discuss a joke that's not particularly funny. It just isn't very interesting fruit for discussion.