ego-boosting

It's hard to explain, but easy to spot when someone is genuinely contributing and when it's just ego-boosting.

But you don't see everybody who created a wikipedia article make ego-boosting comments on HN whenever their article is mentioned.

Most modern blogs are ego-boosting camouflage, the same content you'd find on social media.

For individuals, negative comments might be ego-boosting to write and heart-breaking to read.

Being requested by name is too ego-boosting to pass up, so let me take a crack at clarifying at least one apparent confusion.

Such connections are increasingly likely (and vicariously ego-boosting) the more people join and the more research they individually put into documenting their family history.

Money is valuable and ego-boosting, but when you hit your 30s you will realize that enjoying your workday is much more important than maximizing your paycheck.

I just don't understand what it is you think anyone will be too late for, unless this is just self-justification and snide ego-boosting.

The goal should be personal development/understanding and not competition/ego-boosting/fame/money/etc.

Apart from the ego-boosting friend-count (which I might also hide).

The player in question is now infamous for this video, which I bet they see as a silver lining at worst; more ego-boosting than the hacks themselves at best.

How many of these books have you read?' and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool.

What I do mind, are "I use semi-obscure technology X, here's why X is better than established, proven and hugely popular technology Y in every conceivable way" style ego-boosting articles.

How many of these books have you read?” and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool.