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I got a message that after 3 days of being on here, I lost my Cowboy hat. Is this good? Bad?

Am I cooked? 🤣

I see you've found another. That's a relief.

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What is a Cowboy hat tho? And why did I lose it, how did I find it, and why would I want this? 🤣

Sorry, total noob, and I tried to find the answer in the FAQ but couldn’t and prior posts about this weren’t explainers.

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Spend 100 CCs or sats here, and you'll find a cowboy hat. Don't be active for a day, or spend less, or get less than 100 CCs or sats, and you might lose it. I don't know if I'm correct here though.

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First rule of Stacker News is that we don't explicitly explain how to get a cowboy hat.

Be an upstanding member of society and the universe will reward you with a hat.

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I’d like to think I am upstanding, but maybe I’m valuing myself higher than the universe does. 🤣

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I should have said "...and the universe might reward you..."

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I lost mine after 36 days.. I was new and it was a big pain in my ass. But decided to be calm and make another streak amd lost one after another. Now I don't care. Better to think it never existed for me. It helped. It's a part of Easter eggs here.

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Ah, that explains it. I was active yesterday and zapped, but I don’t think I received too many (which is OK, I’m not here to extract).

I’ll take a similar approach and not think about it too much, haha

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Nooeeeh!
Losing my current 181-day streak would be terrible... can't recoup that evah!

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That's what I mean.. It would be a huge pain in ass lol

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That’s the approach I’m going to take too.

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Yeah, I'm thankful! I'd better lose it early than later. It would be so much pain to keep it after 200 days or some? Right?

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longest cowboy streak: 68

After that it's on and off. And, now i don't care. 🤣

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I think the funniest trend I see over and over again is most stackers won’t even reply to you unless you have a cowboy hat at the very least.

Personally if I’ve seen you here before I’ll talk to you. If you have a cowboy hat makes it easier to trust ya for a conversation.

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The hat stays on 🤣

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I go through dry spells just cause I get busy with life, but I would pay for a cowboy hat if sn let me.

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I’m not good with regular schedules so I always forgot a day here and there.

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Seems we all have similar experiences here, so I'd like to know the relevance of having a cowboy hat.
Is it even worth having and of what benefit is it to an SN member cos I just lost mine this recently.

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I'd be curious to know about the utility of it, too. From what I gather, it's more of a flex/signal thing.

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@metadavid , what do you mean by "a flex/signal thing" ? Cos I lost mine as well on my journey to the west (theoretically speaking, 😂)

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I broke my streak today after 21 days... 😔

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I'm sorry for your loss

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171 days down the drain due to a migraine. ☠️🪦

Good luck feller.

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Bad.

You're outlaaaaawed!

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There's a guy selling permanent cowboy hats for 10k sats

Just waiting for mine to be delivered 👌

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Ah, it seems like a warning shot then

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