Answer by Jon Ericson for Did the Red Baron hat motivate you to be a better...
I did not get the hat, but I can add a bit of data to the discussion. Here are the questions that earned Stack Overflow users their Red Barons:What does "i" mean in a CSS attribute selector? (Alexander...
View ArticleAnswer by DVK for Did the Red Baron hat motivate you to be a better Stack...
Caveat: my hat wasn't on SO. But my answer really applies to most sites I am active on, SO included.Im my case, earning Red Baron did NOT in any way change how I operate. I found a question that my SME...
View ArticleAnswer by Rory Alsop for Did the Red Baron hat motivate you to be a better...
While I always enjoy the annual hat dash, and managed to get quite a few across many sites (think I came in 9th overall, and 1st on Information Security) this was one of 3 hats that I felt didn't...
View ArticleAnswer by GreenAsJade for Did the Red Baron hat motivate you to be a better...
No.At first I thought hats were fun, but it became too confusing about what was acceptable fun and what was not allowed even though it was fun, and some of the hats clearly invoked bad behaviour -...
View ArticleAnswer by Alexander O'Mara for Did the Red Baron hat motivate you to be a...
As one of the lucky few who earned a Red Baron hat, I can say that yes, I think the hat did motivate me to become a better Stack Overflow user. At first, I didn't use any particular strategy to try to...
View ArticleAnswer by bmargulies for Did the Red Baron hat motivate you to be a better...
No hats motivated me to do anything, because I opted out of hats. Several times, because they seem to need to be shucked once per site. Hats are intended to be fun and avoid undesirable incentives;...
View ArticleDid the Red Baron hat motivate you to be a better Stack Overflow user?
Note: This question was inspired by a hat but it's actually about your experience interacting with the site in pursuit of a hat.During Winter Bash 2014, I spent a lot of time thinking about hats. In...
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