Timeline for Let us wear hats
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| Dec 30, 2022 at 8:18 | comment | added | Dominic van der Zypen | To add my $2$ cents, for me the reputation points is the "right" quantity of gamification. I don't care about the badges. As for the hats, I am not against the hat feature that Joel is suggesting, and maybe I would even put a hat in my MO profile. I don't see how making hats would make MO a less great site than it is now. On the other hand I think about MO: Don't change a winning recipe. It's such a great site! So, put me down as a "hat agnostic" | |
| Dec 29, 2022 at 18:43 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | I deleted my latter comments in this thread, since my lighthearted mocking was not received in the spirit in which it had been intended. The main point I had wanted to make is in my first comment above. (Moderators, perhaps clean up this thread?) | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 15:49 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | For those who are not in a festive mood, think of hats as a survival kit for the grant report season. | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 14:11 | comment | added | Francesco Polizzi | Such gloomy comments for a light topic. | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 10:10 | comment | added | Alec Rhea | @JeremyRickard The sisyphusian task is mathematics in general, not MO specifically — more importantly, we must imagine sisyphus happy. (all of this is tongue-in-cheek; the only real content to my comment is an inquiry about how hats work) | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 9:53 | comment | added | Jeremy Rickard | @AlecRhea "chill, modern, easygoing sisyphus"? I know that trying to answer MO questions can sometimes feel like pushing large boulders up a hill, only for them to roll down again, but ... | |
| Dec 28, 2022 at 6:07 | comment | added | Alec Rhea | As someone who initially sided with Joel on reading this post, I think you made some excellent points. We seem to be tending towards a more ‘lighthearted’ MO as of late, which I think behooves the site greatly, but (as someone who has no social media accounts [arguably outside researchgate]) I definitely want to avoid MO taking on a ‘social media’ feel — I’d prefer that we collectively look like a chill, modern, easygoing sisyphus. I would need to know more about exactly how hats would be implemented before being able to render judgement on their appropriateness for MO. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 19:49 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | @Yemon, youtu.be/WtJNo9aQkQ8 | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 18:45 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | @ToddTrimble Why would you stand on a hat? | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 18:36 | comment | added | Todd Trimble Mod | I accidentally downvoted this out of haste, thinking this was the spot to upvote or downvote on hats. Well, now you know where I stand on hats. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 17:01 | comment | added | LSpice | The comments took a darker turn than I expected, but I wouldn't want to suggest that not being festive when societally expected makes one a grinch. I think the comments have clearly pointed out that too much and too little gamification can both be bad, and that, without gamification, MO might not have thrived. But MO is thriving, so I think an argument that it has too little gamification is not immediately plausible—and it has got here by blazing its own way, different from the rest of the SE network, and I am happy to continue to believe in its idiosyncratic approach. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 15:59 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | No offence, Joel, but not everyone is in a festive mood at the end of the year, and not everyone needs to have a reminder about how great everyone else is feeling with their festivities. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 15:54 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | Joel, but that's like saying that salt is a critically important reason for pasta being delicious. You're not wrong. But adding too much is an easy way to destroy any recipe. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 15:46 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | In my view, the gamification aspects of MathOverflow are a critically important reason for its success—it would fail without them—and we make a mistake to downplay or sublimate those aspects. The fun gamifying elements of MO are a genious bit of social engineering that have resulted in this remarkable forum. | |
| Dec 27, 2022 at 15:39 | history | answered | Asaf KaragilaMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |