Ah, seeing your edited comment, I’d say I fall in the, “pay to get cowboy hat,” category. But also, more seriously, I guess I think both are good incentives and help boost the content quality.

I actually do as much as I can. Your posts are either educational or witty/hilarious, and sometimes both, although I believe you and I have radically different world views. I love stacker news but also work full time, have a wife and three kids, am pretty involved with my church, try to stay as involved as possible in my real world community, am now getting into 3d printing in addition to mining and coding (poorly), and so forth. Haha (I know you do as much as that and more too, I’m just maybe not as high capacity)

Also, the people that get legit mad about cowboy credits has made me lose interest in caring all that much. Even if they’re useful, it (CCs vs sats on the site, not the site itself) just doesn’t seem like that big of a deal to me either way.

All this to say, I do, just not so much on this topic.