The thing is, it is especially hard to figure these out because they no longer tell you why, and they also delay the awards so you don’t know quite what it was you did that caused something.
And this mobile crap sucks for people like Reg who don’t go in for that shit.
The lack of the hats for 5/10/15 questions and also for answers, plus for rep-capping, has left everything sadly quiet. We got lots of good questions because of the hats.
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I have a secret hat because of a timing thing: you have to edit a bunch of old postings in a small amount of time, and they may have to be in different years.
I wish we could get full UTC times on events. I thought we used to be able to.
This guy has a HairBoat! How?... No idea... (By being an uber-mod?)
If we can believe the rumors that there are 8 secret hats, then maybe this is the last one not mentioned yet? (I for one don't believe in such rumors.)
At this point, I am relatively confident that Winter Bash will become an annual event. The event is oodles of fun for our communities, and almost everything we do as employees in putting the event together is done with an eye toward repeatability and automation.
With that in mind, I see a lot o...
@tchrist What about commenting on a post that hasn't had any activity in 6 months? Or whatever the tumbleweed range is. Or that hasn't had any new answers in a year? Or summat.