Timeline for Let us wear hats
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| Jan 2, 2023 at 22:31 | comment | added | Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda | I hope I am not the only one that enjoys the fact that @JoelDavidHamkins 's new profile picture has a hat :-) | |
| Jan 2, 2023 at 5:05 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 2, 2023 at 1:25 | history | edited | Joel David Hamkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 1, 2023 at 22:34 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | Ah, that differs from what I had read on the other discussion threads. That's too bad. | |
| Jan 1, 2023 at 21:05 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | I'd like to note that the moderator team has been in contact with Community Management, and there is no opt-in only possibility as of now, and apparently it wouldn't be simple thing to enable. (But if we had that, I can't see why we wouldn't go that way.) | |
| Dec 30, 2022 at 20:02 | answer | added | Tim CampionMod | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 30, 2022 at 18:54 | answer | added | François G. Dorais | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 30, 2022 at 10:24 | comment | added | Francesco Polizzi | That said, actually I do not really care about hats. But I find bizarre that a discussion about something so frivolous took such a somehow dramatic turn. | |
| Dec 30, 2022 at 10:20 | comment | added | Francesco Polizzi | Also Christmas parties in Math. Departments are frivolous events, but It would seem strange to me that a "serious, valuable" mathematician leaves their job because of them. People who do not like parties, simply do not participate to them. | |
| Dec 30, 2022 at 8:36 | answer | added | Yaakov Baruch | timeline score: 10 | |
| Dec 30, 2022 at 1:34 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | @JoelDavidHamkins I can only give my thoughts based on your post. I put it as a comment for a reason, rather than an answer. The effect of having hats might be a very subtle and unmeasurable positive thing. But I'd rather have an answer below from someone that give additional positive support to hats, explaining their reasoning. Voting is a blunt instrument here, at best drive-by support for either side. | |
| Dec 30, 2022 at 1:25 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | @DavidRoberts In my view, those are not the right questions. As I see it, the gamification aspects of the site, including reputation score and badges, are vital for encouraging user engagement and participation. Have some users left because of a distaste for the competitive nature of rep? Yes, some quite loudly. But has the system overall motivated and encouraged many thousands of mathematicians to post math questions and answers? Yes, again. Gamification works. I think the moderation team is mistaken to downplay this very important social aspect of MathOverflow. | |
| Dec 30, 2022 at 0:56 | comment | added | David Roberts Mod | Do you think anyone would quit MO over not being able to participate in the gimmick-hat event? Would anyone join MO because of the additional festivities of the same, or perhaps stay when they would have otherwise left because of the generally more professional atmosphere? Conversely, would someone (i.e. a serious, valuable contributor) leave because of the hat frivolity? I can imagine the last one happening, but not the others. Perhaps it's a failure of imagination on my part. | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 20:49 | history | edited | Joel David Hamkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2022 at 14:09 | answer | added | Stefan KohlMod | timeline score: 18 | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 8:04 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Apart from "Winter Bash on MO?" (2014, linked in the question) there was also this discussion in 2016: How to wear my Winter bash hat. In any case, this is all moot for this season. But it is probably good that the MO users have a place where to discuss how they would view something like this in the future. | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 2:49 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | Meanwhile, I've updated my profile picture (after many years) to include my own personal hat. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 22:48 | history | edited | Joel David Hamkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2022 at 19:51 | history | edited | Joel David Hamkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2022 at 16:39 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Dec 27, 2022 at 15:39 | answer | added | Asaf KaragilaMod | timeline score: 14 | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 14:43 | history | edited | Joel David Hamkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2022 at 14:38 | history | asked | Joel David Hamkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |