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12:05 AM
Joshua Maciel on December 15, 2014

Hi English-language readers! This blog post is not for you; perhaps you’d like a hat instead? No? Well, when last we spoke of creating non-English versions of Stack Overflow, some of you were certain we should’ve gone the easy route and just leveraged a machine translation service instead of creating real sites for real people to use. I humbly invite you to read the rest of this post using the mechanical babelfish of your choice, and see if you think such tools can be relied on for important work… …

 
 
14 hours later…
Dom
2:07 PM
@RoryAlsop do you know how you got the HairBoat hat?
 
yep - I have it on two separate sites
 
@Dom I'm so happy to be opted out of this thing
 
Looks like we can't get it on Music, Dom
not yet
There is a reason
 
Dom
Yeah I know the reason. I saw it on the secret hat thread.
@tohecz Yeah it's a nice and fun.
 
@Dom well, I don't find it funny
 
Dom
2:18 PM
Why?
 
@Dom I am trying to persuade abby to visit here and a couple of other sites
@tohecz It is a brief bit of fun over a fortnight. It helps visits, as without it most sites experience plummets in visits. Sure, it does give some lower quality for a short space of time, but we do appear to gain some valuable users
 
Dom
@RoryAlsop That would be nice so people here can get the hat.
 
@Dom I dunno exactly, I'm not a fan of stats of this kind in general. You can say that hats aren't about stats but about fun. I don't see any fun in it.
 
I had a look at stats from previous years on most of the sites I moderate, and there was an overall positive
 
@RoryAlsop I don't question this. As long as you allow me not to see anything hat-related, I'm fine
 
2:21 PM
@tohecz you have ticked the box then, yes? So it's just hat chat, and the odd meta post that is annoying?
 
@RoryAlsop it's not annoying me at this moment, I just replied to the message by @Don and said that I'm happy to be opted out, that's all ;) I said that mostly to keep the chatter on, which is the case so I'm even more happy :)
 
@tohecz :-)
lovely
I do hope it doesn't annoy. One of my fellow mods on Security says it annoys him, but it turns out that's because he knows he hasn't time to properly get all the hats and his OCD doesn't like that
:-)
 
2:44 PM
@RoryAlsop sounds familiar
 
 
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7:41 PM
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Q: Are questions about problems with specific types of equipment off-topic?

Kevin JohnsrudeI understand that the current policy is that recommendations about specific equipment are off-topic. Are questions about problems with specific musical equipment off-topic? For example: How do you sync a Roland Boss RC 300 Loop Station to external rhythm sources?

 

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