Linked Questions
19 questions linked to/from Sunsetting Winter/Summer Bash: Rationale and Next Steps
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Winter Bash 2018 Knitting [closed]
NOTE: for this year, there's a new topic: Winter Bash 2019 Knitting
This year's Winter Bash got us great hat challenges, but it also gave us a very nice tool for knitting on the main Winter Bash site....
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How do weekly topic challenges work?
A handful of sites have conducted a variation of the "weekly topic challenge" idea. I, myself, have become quite fond of them since they do seem to be effective at increasing asking rate and can be a ...
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What should be next for community events?
Update October 17th, 2023
We are unfeaturing this as we have given enough time for everyone to weigh in. Suffice to say we have some internal shuffling going on at the moment. You can expect to hear ...
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Suggestions for Winter Bash 2023
Winter Bash 2022 is going on right now, so why not use the opportunity to gather ideas/suggestions/corrections for next year?
Please post your suggestions regarding how to make Winter Bash 2023 even ...
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A Yaakov Ellis-inspired Meta.SE poetry contest: Write poems, win rep!
Update July 9, 2020
Submissions are now closed. Thanks everyone who participated; the bounties will be awarded soon!
Yaakov Ellis
Posting answers as haikus
Poetry contest
I'm sure that at least some ...
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Why didn't (or did) I or some other user get a hat although the requirements were (or weren't) fulfilled?
During Winter Bash, users can earn hats. But sometimes it seems that a hat was awarded even though its requirements weren't (yet) met, or vice versa.
What could be the reason for this?
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Please allow me to wear my hat upside down
I want to wear my hat upside down but the rotate control seems to be fixed so I can't.
Please remove this terrible restriction so that I can use hats as they weren't intended! :-)
See also the ...
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Why do I have to hate hats in order to opt out of Winter Bash?
Why are you, the ever so pink-and-fluffy SE making me hate ?
I don't hate hats. I just don't want to participate because I'm a grumpy old bahumbug kinda guy.
I don't like hating :(
Can we choose ...
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🐔 The Quest for the Winter Chicken of the Bash, Part 2
(Part One is Here)
As every year winter has come... and as every year the hunt for hats and secret has started. So, following the recent events in the Tavern I was following the Chicken tracks back ...
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The quest for the winter unicorn of the bash [closed]
There are many rumors running about the winter bash site. Many voices of an easter egg hidden somewhere. Beards growing overnight.
Yet, one of the legend lies unspoken. The legend of an unicorn. A ...
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Who made the 2013 Winter Bash snowflake script?
This years 2013 Winter Bash canvas based snowflake script is quite lovely.
If you don't mind my asking, to whom should credits be given for that?
There must be a unicorn in there somewhere...
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What is.... the Chicken? 🐔 [closed]
Update:
Continue to 🐔 The Quest for the Winter Chicken of the Bash, Part 2
Clues will be updated here too
So, we just noticed a new, fowl user on the tavern
I think he called us chicken....
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The Lord of the Hats: The Return of the Chicken 🐔 [closed]
...Also known as "The Quest for the Winter Chicken of the Bash, Part 3" (part 2 here).
So, winter has come again. As every year, the staff members try their best to hide some funny Easter eggs, ...
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What recurring competitions are held across various communities?
A lot of communities have or have had friendly competitions, whether for best question, or best answer, or questions of a particular category, etc. etc. I'm interested in what sites are doing other ...
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Will Stack Exchange be running something for April Fools in 2024?
Earlier this year, Philippe created a post on MSO stating that SE wouldn't be running an April Fools joke this year.
Admittedly, that post did end with
We hope to continue celebrating April Fools' ...
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