Timeline for Suggestions for Winter Bash 2017
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| Jun 3, 2020 at 13:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot | Commonmark migration | |
| Jan 8, 2017 at 20:37 | comment | added | Willeke | I think it is not nice to notice you can never win the WB unless you are a user of Overflow. And not all of us can deliver on that site. It would be great if there is also a secret hat somewhere else on the site that has nothing to do with computer capabilities. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 22:31 | comment | added | 10 Replies | @bluefeet I understand the problem now... I guess the only solution would be to approve a top secret moderator hat trigger creation API where all the possible triggers have been tested extensively... Or just to have the same triggers for each site. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 22:25 | comment | added | Catija | I promise you that, while the mods on Blender or Graphic Design may be excellently capable of creating the artwork for these hats, I don't know that I want to depend on the artistic abilities of the mods on some of the sites I'm a member of. Even on Arts & Crafts, none of us mods are good at drawing. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 22:24 | comment | added | Taryn StaffMod | @10Replies We still have to vet everything for them, make sure that the trigger will work, etc. Plus, it amplifies the chances of bugs when we have different triggers on every single site. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 22:22 | comment | added | 10 Replies | @animuson you could have moderators look at past years hats, and make hats based off of them. Or, you could send a hat rule list to the moderators so that you aren't stuck with a bunch of off the wall trigger ideas. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 22:19 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | Your last paragraph isn't that convincing. Coming up with the names and designs of hats is the fun and easy part for us. Coming up with triggers that can actually be implemented, are relevant to the hat, and wouldn't be a resource drain is the painfully boring part. We can't delegate that off to the community easily because it's ultimately up to the developers and we have to sit here and approve, make changes, yada yada before they can be finalized anyways. Pushing the easy part off onto the community doesn't help us all that much. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:59 | history | edited | 10 Replies | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 276 characters in body |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:55 | comment | added | Taryn StaffMod | @ShadowWizard Again, I'd think implementing different hats and different triggers on various sites, would be difficult. Not saying no, but I really think it'd be a long shot. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:52 | comment | added | user152859 | @bluefeet so as post author here suggested, let each community decide for itself on its meta site. Surely not all communities will want such a thing, probably around 20 or so, doesn't look that complicated to implement once the details are already given. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:50 | comment | added | Taryn StaffMod | @Kendra they would have to use the same trigger, it's hard enough to come up with triggers for hats in general trying to come up with unique ones for each site would probably take an entire year. But designing 160+ unique hats would be very difficult IMO. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:48 | comment | added | Taryn StaffMod | @ShadowWizard Manage meaning we have 160+ sites, it would be very difficult to come up with that many unique hats for each site. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:46 | comment | added | Kendra | @bluefeet Would it be easier for the hats to each have the same trigger, but just have different images based on the site? I still think it would be a bit insane, but it might be easier than coming up with 160+ different triggers for the hats. Provided people really do want this, anyway. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:46 | history | edited | 10 Replies | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 93 characters in body |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:45 | comment | added | 10 Replies | @bluefeet That is why the moderaters of each site would decide upon the hats. We trust them enough to run the sites, so I think it would be fine for them to choose each hat and its triggers. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:45 | comment | added | user152859 | @bluefeet what do you mean "manage"? Hats don't really need managing, they're auto awarded once the formula is set. I do agree that having site specific hats for some sites, while not for others won't be fair though. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:43 | comment | added | Taryn StaffMod | We did the Stack Overflow only versions because there are features only on that site, and to make the number of hats even everywhere we made two hats non-SO specific. But I think that site specific hats would be difficult to manage especially when we have so many sites. | |
| Jan 4, 2017 at 21:40 | history | answered | 10 Replies | CC BY-SA 3.0 |