Timeline for Sunsetting Winter/Summer Bash: Rationale and Next Steps
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| Sep 15, 2023 at 5:00 | comment | added | MT1 | @Mithical good idea, I had never heard of a haiku until I came here! Unfortunately there is this site poem-generator.org.uk/haiku | |
| Sep 11, 2023 at 21:48 | comment | added | Makoto | What assurance do I get that if such a conversation started here that it'd actually lead to something? The rationale to do away with this event reads as if there are more pressing things you need the devs for, and I can at least agree with that, but I don't want to get my hopes up just to have reality remind me about this. The company also doesn't have the most stellar track record when it comes to community-led or organized requests leading somewhere. | |
| Sep 11, 2023 at 15:03 | comment | added | John Cappelletti | Full Disclosure: I have "worn" the hats out of a sense obligation because I support the community and find tremendous value here. That said, I found the hats to be a bit silly and certainly cryptic. | |
| Sep 11, 2023 at 14:27 | comment | added | Lundin | Like... I dunno, take a selfie of your laptop while it visits some landmark with your favourite SE community on the screen and ask a question related to the location? Like posting a programming question about the Eiffel language from the Eiffel tower. It's not hard to come up with fun contests that takes no more effort from SO the company than to host a meta thread somewhere and optionally hand out some swag to the winners. | |
| Sep 11, 2023 at 14:23 | comment | added | Lundin | So how about something more or less completely detached from the Q&A? The hat chasing always seemed artificial to me since it involved changing ones behavior on the main Q&A site. Who's saying it has to be integrated into the site and thereby take up lots of engineer time? | |
| Sep 11, 2023 at 14:20 | comment | added | Hoid StaffMod | @Mithical Thank you for sharing that. We have been collecting past community contests like these to look at and see what we can learn from them. | |
| Sep 10, 2023 at 14:49 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 | @Robotnik - And my point is: You can do everything you are talking about by just inserting your own customized image. You don't need extra programming to make it happen (from SE's end). | |
| Sep 10, 2023 at 13:16 | comment | added | Robotnik | @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 note my examples are about customising the user card and profile, not specifically the picture. I am aware that pictures can be updated, yes | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 12:49 | comment | added | Jay Buckman | So, practically no one participated in the event? Fix the event. There are lot of developers in stack overflow so surely we can come up with one good idea. Prove the degrees fo separation theory, pass tokens, etc. | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 10:30 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 | @Robotnik - Thing is, you can do that now by creating your own avatar/profile image and uploading it to your profile. You don't need the developers to do something special for you to achieve it. It's already there. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 17:16 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Active reading [<https://meta.stackexchange.com/tags/winter-bash/info>]. |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 17:13 | comment | added | Sam Hanley | I'm part of the user community for Home Assistant, a popular home automation tool. There, there's a yearly event called the "Month of 'What the Heck?'", where users are asked to bring any bugs or missing expected features which have been bothering them, for discussion and prioritized attention. Since capacity is being freed up by ending Winter Bash, maybe Stack Exchange could consider a similar event, smashing some of the many long-stale feature requests or bug reports so as to help cultivate some community goodwill? | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 16:23 | comment | added | zcoop98 | @PhilipC It's a description of the level of effort; a "lower lift" is a smaller level of effort or workload on the engineering team. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 14:02 | comment | added | Rob Grant | @spencerg what about participating in (and boosting) advent of code? Maybe let people supply their aoc login and then do more enriched/segmented leaderboards for SO people? | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 13:19 | comment | added | Rosie StaffMod | @Mithical I love the idea of bringing back more of these community-run contests. I find them really meaningful since they are community-conceived and driven. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 10:49 | comment | added | l4mpi | Also, just generally boosting engagement is NOT in the interest of the wider community. It has to be the right form of engagement; we already have enough people on SO spamming useless edits to questions that should be closed without promising them a hat or some other garbage if they do that a hundred times. And based on the current track record I don't have confidence that the company will manage to launch events that promote the kind of engagement that improves the site and community. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 10:43 | comment | added | l4mpi | "I am currently looking into different kinds of community events we can run around engagement" - No "fun" event can distract me from all of the unfun things the company did over the last years. Instead, how about an event where the company takes the concerns of quality focused experts seriously? No hats or other BS required. And you know what's more "crucial to a community being a community" than some seasonal events? Actually feeling like feedback from expert community members matters and isn't just handwaved away or ignored entirely by the company. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 8:08 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @PhilipC Wiktionary's noun(10) sense seems to fit: “The amount or weight to be lifted.” | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 6:10 | comment | added | Philip C | I'd never seen the word "lift" used in this way before ("much lower lifts on our engineering teams") until both this question and this answer - what does it mean in this context? | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 0:16 | comment | added | Robotnik | If there's one takeaway from Winterbash for me, it's that the profile pic customisation was fun. It doesn't have to be hats, but having other options for customising the appearance that the card/mouseover/profile page displays is something I would like to see. Doesn't have to be "here's a colour picker, go nuts", but "Here's 8 user card background colours to choose from" would be nice. | |
| Sep 6, 2023 at 22:27 | comment | added | Mithical | Throwing this community-run contest out there as an example | |
| Sep 6, 2023 at 21:47 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | Seven red lines, all of them strictly perpendicular. Some with green pixels, and some with transparent. | |
| Sep 6, 2023 at 21:36 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Spring socks. Or funny, cute animals like spiders, that eat some bugs. Or unicorns, real unicorns instead of worthless internet points. Whatever a couple of engineers can come up with. | |
| Sep 6, 2023 at 21:11 | history | answered | HoidStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |