any news on last years triggers of secret hats like Row Of Many Candles : Participate in a site (vote, post a question, post an answer, etc...) while it's 2017-12-20 (the last day of Hanukkah 2017) anywhere in the world. The hat was first triggered on 2017-12-19 10:00AM UTC. ?
@Riker Wait. Are you saying that limited time progress that will be gone in less than a month event that gives you nothing but bragging rights is not the main focus of the site???
@Panda that happened to me with the mad hatter, I had the trigger spot on, just could not account for why we did not se the hat in the first 5 or whatever days it was. (it was a bug)
If I earn some more rep on Worldbuilding I should be able to either prove or falsify the "200 rep" idea. I think it needs to be all on one day, not during WB in general.
@Panda oh, only four repcaps there? Interesting. I capped on Writing and Workplace on the first day of Winterbash and earned the hat today, after capping on Meta for the sixth time since WB started.
OK, so regardless of that, do you not think the question was worth upvoting? I know that not every question someone answers is a good question, so that's not what I'm focused on. ... many sites have a problem of not getting a lot of votes going, which makes the reputation a bit depressed...
So, I'm trying to get an idea of why people don't vote.
Votes are funny. There's the ideal meaning - the one people largely espouse as what they intend when they vote on stuff... the reasons indicated in the hover text for the up and down arrows... and then there's all the other reasons. "This is funny", "This person is famous", "This person sux!", "This is a stupid question, how could they not know the answer to it"...
Part of why I vote so infrequently is that, unless I absolutely know the answer is correct, I'm less likely to vote. Many people vote because an answer "sounds good" or "sounds correct"... On sites like SO it's possible to actually verify it... but I can't verify that an answer on Cooking works unless I actually buy the ingredients and test it... so I have to make a judgement call.
Sure. But intuition != reality. Someone could say, "add oil to your pasta water, it will keep the pasta from sticking"... lots of people believe that. It sounds good... oil is slippery and all... but they forget that oil and water don't mix. The oil's just going to float on the top and not actually coat the pasta. It's a bad answer that sounds good on the surface.
@Catija yep that's quite site-specific. also, sites like workplace do tend to receive upvotes based on intuition since some answer can't exactly be verified
That's where citations come in... and discerning good and bad sources. On a site like SO, it's not really as necessary to prove something works - anyone can just test it and see that it does... but on sites like Cooking or TWP or, heaven forbid, IPS... you need something to back up your answer. :) That's why we have the Good subjective blog post from all that time ago.
... I think y'all give us a lot of credit... I see some of the ideas y'all have for what the triggers might be and they make me think "wow, that'd be a really specific trigger". :D
It's really different to know all of the stuff and see what y'all are doing in that. Don't forget (as is the case with Waffles) y'all are forcing things because you know a way to get the hats... but that doesn't mean they're the only ways. If it were me, I'd want to know the actual trigger over what happens to work. :)
Interesting theories about the Elisa hat. If the trigger is really something like 1200/200/200, I might be able to test it soon. I already have one 1200+ and one 200+. The third is currently at 151, so I'll see if I can find some questions to answer.
The sequel to Wreck-It Ralph is called Ralph Breaks the Internet. In it, Ralph and Venellope travel to the Internet to buy a replacement controller for Sugar Rush.
Why is it called Ralph Breaks the Internet, though? Wouldn't it make more sense to name it Ralph Wrecks the Internet?
I'm aware tha...
@Panda ELL is also one of my 3 Brunhilde sites. Already got 151 there (if I get to 200 we'll see about that theory of yours, since I already have enough on SO and MSE).
Swastika is religious symbol in India and many countries don't find it offensive but due to Nazi connections, will a traveler will get in trouble if he carries anything with the swastika symbol in the USA? Like a T-shirt, Tattoo or religious book with that logo? Do I need to hide it, or avoid eve...
It Ain't Easy Being Cheesy
Wear 6 hats, changing hats here in 6 days
Does this mean wearing six hats across the network, but keeping one hat on for six days?
Does it mean wearing six hats in six days on a particular site?
Something else?