You can turn off cowboy hat notifications and hide your hat, effectively opting out.
The cowboy hat is meant to be a little Easter egg game for those that want it.
that's what i do. 2 ways to deal with anxiety (for me), face it or take it out of the equation completely. turn off the hats. now there is nothing.. except of course the next thing you're anxious about. which hopefully is not a made up hat, next to a made up name.
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I think it will naturally become more that just that, despite initial intentions. Having the hat and the time you have it is the best badge/metric we have as of now to judge a user retroactive engagement attitude. Unless other visible metrics/badges are developed for that purpose.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 6 Jun
We have other badges planned around attached wallets, so that should help some.
best badge/metric we have as of now to judge a user retroactive engagement attitude
Good point. I don't want to change the rules of the hat - it'd be unfair to everyone playing that game and who likes that game - but maybe there's a better metric we can badgify.
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Thank you for considering that. Mind you, I'm just trying to give constructive feedback here for I value the site and I see that it can be greatly improved by this considerations (IMO as a user).
Possible badgifiable metrics for quality of contribution could be:
  • For Posting: ( post_total_stack / number_of_posts )
  • For Commenting: ( comnt_total_stack / number_of_comnts )
Possible badgifiable metric to measure retroactive engagement could be:
  • ( total_spending / number_of_answers ) ; number of answers given to posts or comments
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