Questions tagged [winter-bash]
An annual event where users of the Stack Exchange network can gain virtual hats for their avatars for completing certain activities on their sites.
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Winter Bash 2019 LEGO Prizes!
Happy holidays everyone! Bricks Stack Exchange is once again participating in the Winter Bash celebration with the rest of the Stack Exchange network!
While this is a "just for fun" activity, there ...
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Win a LEGO set prize for participating in Winter Bash 2017! (Ended)
It's that time of year again! We're once again participating in Winter Bash!
While this is a "just for fun" activity, I've reached out to TLG about it, and it sounds like they are willing to provide ...
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Winter Bash 2020 LEGO Prizes!
Happy holidays everyone! Bricks Stack Exchange is once again participating in the Winter Bash celebration with the rest of the Stack Exchange network!
There are a few different ways to win prizes ...
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Fishy views on a user's questions
I noticed a new question was receiving a surprising number of views for a question only a few hours old with no answers (and no votes as of this writing). So I looked at the question tab on that user'...
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Winter Bash 2020 Building Competition
2020 has been a challenging year for most of us. I know that my holiday plans look very different than in previous years. For this year's challenge, we'd love to see submissions that explore the great ...
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Winter Bash 2018 LEGO Prizes!
Happy holidays everyone! Bricks Stack Exchange is once again participating in the Winter Bash celebration with the rest of the Stack Exchange network!
While this is a "just for fun" activity, there ...
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Winterbash 2021
Our community is once again participating in Winter Bash with the rest of the Stack Exchange network this year. If you're new to Winter Bash, here's an explanation from the official FAQ:
What is ...
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Winter Bash 2019 Winners!
I want to say a big thanks to everyone who participated in Winter Bash this year! We had a total of 170 users earn 367 hats!
We added 200 new users to our community this December, more than in any ...
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Winter Bash Prize Discussion
I'd like to get some input on how we run Winter Bash this year. For the past several years, TLG has provided prizes for this via one of our activity support requests. We've offered prizes for most ...
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Winter Bash 2016 [closed]
Just a quick heads up that we'll be participating in Winter Bash again this year - for more details on the upcoming festivities, please see below:
The year is rapidly coming to a close, which means ...
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Winter Bash 2020 Winners!
I want to say a big thank you to everyone who participated in Winter Bash this year. We had a total of 600 users earn 1,070 hats. That's a 3x increase in users since last year.
We had 128k visits to ...
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Will there be Winter Bash 2020 competition on Bricks.SE?
Last year we had Winter Bash 2019 competition. While you could win some LEGO prizes last year it was quite fun to participate on its own. Are we going to have something like that this Winter Bash ...
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Winter Bash 2018 Building Competition
This is the thread where we'll be tracking and voting on submissions for the 2018 Winter Bash building competition. This year, we're asking you to recreate a scene from a holiday song. This can be any ...
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Are all these edits really necessary or even helpful?
I'm all for having fun with competitions, but adding prizes increases the stakes further in a game which already causes much unnecessary noise. See for example the flood of trivial edits from users of ...
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Winter Bash 2018 Preparations
Winter Bash 2018 is coming up fast, so I thought it would be a good idea to start a discussion on how we'd like to handle things this year.
It seemed like it went well last year, and it was fun to be ...
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Winter Bash 2015 [closed]
The end of the year is upon us, and here in Stack Land, that can only
mean one thing: it's time for Winter Bash 2015!
Event Overview
Winter Bash is a fun, lighthearted event we run every ...
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Do we have any staff on Bricks.SE?
So, there's a Winter/Summer bash hat for looking at a Staff's profile page, but my clicking through our user pages has not revealed any staff on Bricks.SE. I'm sure I just didn't click through enough ...
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Winter Bash 2014 [closed]
As another year draws to a close, we wanted to do something fun and
lighthearted with our communities, as a way of celebrating the many
amazing people who make the sites awesome. So, we’re ...
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Does the LEGO Answers site get credit for hats earned by the users that opted out of the "Winter Bash" promotion?
I was checking out the Hat leaderboard. We are currently holding 89 of them. Does the site get credit for hats earned by the LEGO Answers users that met the criteria to earn a hat, but opted out of ...
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Winter Bash 2012 Preparations [closed]
Last year, on our Gaming site, we hosted an event called Hat Dash,
where users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain
tasks (analogous to badges). Certain actions would trigger ...
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Winter Bash 2013 [closed]
This event will run from 16 December 2013 to 3 January 2014. Users
will be able to see their entire hat collection at http://winterbash2013.stackexchange.com.
That site will also have a landing ...
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