Revisions to What should we do for Winter Bash 2016? [closed]

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Make hats encourage good/desired behaviour.

Hairboat's Revenge, for instance, is just silly: it caused a lot of unnecessary comments and clutter. Suggestion for next year: abolish it. If the CMs want to play Christmas pranks on each other, can't they do it without causing a lot of mess for everyone?
Timey Wimey might have seemed like a good idea, but in practice it encouraged people to do lots of insignificant edits and clutter up the front page with old questions just to get a hat. Suggestion for next year: require edits to be substantial (by some definition).
Greeter also probably seemed like a good idea, but it caused some problems some problems on sites with a high volume of low-quality posts.

(Admittedly Winter Bash 2015 was much better on this front than Winter Bash 2014. Kudos to Pops and whoever else was involved!)

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edited Jan 4, 2016 at 0:35

Hairboat's Revenge, for instance, is just silly: it caused a lot of unnecessary comments and clutter. Suggestion for next year: abolish it. If the CMs want to play Christmas pranks on each other, can't they do it without causing a lot of mess for everyone?
Timey Wimey might have seemed like a good idea, but in practice it encouraged people to do lots of insignificant edits and clutter up the front page with old questions just to get a hat. Suggestion for next year: require edits to be substantial (by some definition).
Greeter also probably seemed like a good idea, but it caused some problems on sites with a high volume of low-quality posts.

(Admittedly Winter Bash 2015 was much better on this front than Winter Bash 2014. Kudos to Pops and whoever else was involved!)

answered Jan 4, 2016 at 0:23

Hairboat's Revenge, for instance, is just silly: it caused a lot of unnecessary comments and clutter. Suggestion for next year: abolish it. If the CMs want to play Christmas pranks on each other, can't they do it without causing a lot of mess for everyone?
Timey Wimey might have seemed like a good idea, but in practice it encouraged people to do lots of insignificant edits and clutter up the front page with old questions just to get a hat. Suggestion for next year: require edits to be substantial (by some definition).

(Admittedly Winter Bash 2015 was much better on this front than Winter Bash 2014. Kudos to Pops and whoever else was involved!)