Old. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990570 has all the original discussions.

The post is ~10 months old now, but still reads as if written in October of 2014.

To further solidify his points on the gamification of Stack Exchange, the author's reputation's grown another 5,000 points since his blog post, though his sole new contribution to the site is the addition of one small question with 3 upvotes.