@FreeInternetPoints This is a weird bounty...

It is. :/

lovely

madness

@Tyyppi_77 That seems to be coming out of nowhere.

I mean, the fact that they would want the badge.

They have a very low participation on gamedev.

Errr I'm not sure what you mean here

We're talking about this user proposing a bounty on this question, right?

Ah, ok, no worries ;)

I use a web host that allows me to access it via SSH.

But it gives me only 10 seconds to type my username and the passphrase.

@Vaillancourt sounds like a good concept

@Vaillancourt Maybe a user trying to divest themselves of their association bonus in SEs they're no longer interested in using?

@Vaillancourt Oof. I time out on my WFH login constantly because I enter my password, then go check email on my other machine, then look back and realize it didn't sign in yet, it's been waiting on the "Do you want to stay signed in?" dialog long enough to expire instead of just using the password I gave it.

@Tyyppi_77 nope, it's likely on someone's priority list, but closer to the bottom. I take a look once in a while to the questions that have close votes on them and I close those that have 3 votes.

@Tyyppi_77 yes, however, as I understand it, shog9 was the one who knew how to do that, and he was laid off later that month.

:D

laying off shog was a super-smart move \s

I thought shog left of his own accord

We don't really know what happened and the impression I get was something reached a point of either the Stack saying "do this or walk" or Shog saying "do this or I walk" and the operative party went with walk

That's speculative, but it seems like how this could've happened

(or "don't do this" or "this is unacceptable" or whatever)

considering Monica's case I know what I believe more likely

It's sort of a testament to either SE being insightful, or overwhelmed with the whole stackexchange business, that this has not yet been removed from the site - as so many other threads have that bubbled up during the active phase of it