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I think it started as a gimmick to manipulate stackers, aka make them stick 🤣🤣🤣
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let's call it a social experiment in how easy it is to influence people
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and the way to win is NOT to play 🧪
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It's a tit-for-tat game 🧑🔬
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I think the real signal is
- stacking since
- the quality of posts or comments
- engaging level
The hat is useless other than saying how long you haven't gone offline a full day.
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You can completely opt-out of the cowboy hat in your settings:
https://m.stacker.news/31875
I think the intent was to have something to show off your consistency of contributing to the site and to have some secret fun (think inside joke)