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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.
– NoDataDumpNoContribution
Commented Sep 6, 2023 at 21:36
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Seven red lines, all of them strictly perpendicular. Some with green pixels, and some with transparent.
– wizzwizz4
Commented Sep 6, 2023 at 21:47
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Throwing this community-run contest out there as an example
– Mithical
Commented Sep 6, 2023 at 22:27
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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.
– Robotnik
Commented Sep 7, 2023 at 0:16
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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?
– Philip C
Commented Sep 7, 2023 at 6:10
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@PhilipC Wiktionary's noun(10) sense seems to fit: “The amount or weight to be lifted.”
– wizzwizz4
Commented Sep 7, 2023 at 8:08
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"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.
– l4mpi
Commented Sep 7, 2023 at 10:43
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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.
– l4mpi
Commented Sep 7, 2023 at 10:49
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@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.
– Rosie StaffMod
Commented Sep 7, 2023 at 13:19
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@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?
– Rob Grant
Commented Sep 7, 2023 at 14:02
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@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.
– zcoop98
Commented Sep 7, 2023 at 16:23
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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?
– Sam Hanley
Commented Sep 7, 2023 at 17:13
@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.
– Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2
Commented Sep 8, 2023 at 10:30
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@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.
– SpencerG StaffMod
Commented Sep 11, 2023 at 14:20
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@SamHanley Interesting thank you for sharing.
– SpencerG StaffMod
Commented Sep 11, 2023 at 14:21

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