User blog comment:Faeyrin/Featured Article 2.0?/@comment-4547854-20140902215346/@comment-4536066-20140902230844

There's nothing wrong with boosting egos if it's for the right reasons.

(Like if somebody got his ego boosted because he was the primary content-producer for an article that was actually very well-crafted and useful, and it was featured, instead of because all his friends got together to do something nice for him.)