Well here's the traditional Winter Bash hats post. Same as last year there are two (and only two) answers: one for the secret hats, and one for the regular hats. Remember there are no hats for guessing secret hat triggers, nor one for pinging SE employees. Only edit the secret hat answer wi...

I love Stack Overflow, but I have to admit I get frustrated when I see how quickly and often subjective, opinion, not-programming-related-(enough), etc. questions get closed. I understand the motivation behind this. We don't want those type of posts (including this one) to clutter up the Unanswer...

And here it is, in all its glory. finally, years after my original request the Konami code works. But since I try every year... They had to mix it a little. The code is up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, Return notice the reversed B and A button. Probably a reference to a...

Since Journeyman asked, I will cross-reference this here. Remember the Konami code hint and the TMNT picture? Well, it turns out that: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES) – Entering the code at the turtle-select screen with the A and B buttons reversed gives acc...

According to Jeff, https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/38180/228134 only one display name change is allowed every 30 days there is a 15 minute grace period after each change during which you may change your displayname at will I recently got a mod message about my name changes and they...

I recently posted a question on StackOverflow. However, it was flagged as duplicate. The reason mentioned in the comments was that another, different question, has the same answer. Is that right? Does the same answer make two different questions duplicate?

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 a prize for this. The winner will be selected randomly from everyone who earns at least 3 hats. Y...

What is a bounty? What is the "Featured" tab on the homepage? How can I search for questions that have a bounty attached? How do I start a bounty? When can I start a bounty? What is the minimum amount of rep I can offer a bounty for? Can I use Markdown formatting in the bounty remarks? Can I edi...

The bounty system does bring more views to bountied questions. On average, Stack Overflow questions get 1455 views. Bountied questions average 2631. It stands to reason that the more people who see a question, the better the odds it will get a quality answer. To test that, I divided all answers ...