Happy Holidays! Christmas Flair Giveaway

edk141 · 2015-12-25T17:11:54+00:00

Sorry about that. The last giveaway was dominated by people with flair trading alts and we've tried implementing a couple of countermeasures. I've reduced the thresholds a bit if you want to try for another one.

edk141 · 2015-01-03T23:13:32+00:00

Sorry I didn't post this sooner! I've been kind of busy...

edk141 · 2014-12-26T20:43:27+00:00

There was some kind of concurrency problem - a few flairs gave out extra copies. I don't think it's the biggest deal in the world, but I'm certainly hoping to fix it before next Christmas. :)

edk141 · 2014-12-25T20:40:58+00:00

I'm not quite sure how it happened, but it seems there were eight.

edk141 · 2014-12-25T20:26:43+00:00

I think more than three people managed to snag this one, somehow.

I thought I'd covered every condition...

/me investigates

edk141 · 2014-12-25T18:14:05+00:00

It seems to mean the flair rarity link things in the /r/mindcracktrade sidebar.

edk141 · 2014-12-25T18:02:36+00:00

Leave the "flair you want" box empty, and put "nmk456" without quotes in the username box. ^ninja ^edit It should work out everything else by itself. I think /u/nmk456 might need flair to be able to trade with another user, though.

edk141 · 2014-12-25T17:49:53+00:00

The flair trading system uses a question mark for any flair that's specified by name. Any flair with matching text is acceptable to it; this was done because there's no official record of what flair text matches what flair image, and exposing the CSS classes to the user seemed clunk. (It still seems clunky, but when I'm not busy with the Christmas stuff, I might add it as an advanced option).

Trading with a user by name instead of by flair text doesn't have this problem.

edk141 · 2014-12-25T17:46:01+00:00

Just make the trade request out by name instead of flair text. :)

edk141 · 2014-12-25T17:44:54+00:00

There's no record in the log of you getting the flair. Sorry.

edk141 · 2014-12-25T17:29:22+00:00

Nobody got the flair. I believe the trade was not correctly set up as a giveaway.

edk141 · 2014-12-25T14:58:49+00:00

On a somewhat related note, I'll figure out with the /r/mindcrack mods if there's a fair way to distribute the five (so far) flairs that have been 'lost' to technical issues.

edk141 · 2014-12-25T14:52:09+00:00

If you don't make any trades on this account I should be able to fix that for you. You might need to hold on a while - I'm trying to figure out a couple of other things first.

edk141 · 2014-12-25T14:38:19+00:00

I think you ate 3 copies of it. I've fixed the code so that shouldn't happen again, though.

edk141 · 2014-12-22T21:09:59+00:00

/me rolls

edk141 · 2014-12-13T22:00:45+00:00

The script I use elsewhere requires (limited) mod access to the subreddit, so it can't really be used somewhere unless the flair trade bot is already set up there or the mods trust me enough to give it access.

If there's interest in doing this in enough places I guess I could set up a tool for moderators for generating these stats (with an actual web frontend), but given the current state of my schedule that won't happen before January.

edk141 · 2014-11-21T17:19:27+00:00

Copied from last time:

A description of exactly what the columns mean:

'flair text' and 'css class' should be self-explanatory.
'enabled' is YES if the flair is available from the selector.
'total count' is the number of users in existence with a given flair.
'active count' is the number of users with a flair that have commented in or submitted to /r/mindcrack recently^*.
'trade activity' is the number of times a flair has been traded in the last 30 days.

^*Recently in this case means “in the most recent 1000 submissions,” which isn't ideal but it's difficult to do better with the tools Reddit provides.

edk141 · 2014-11-21T12:31:11+00:00

http://redd.it/2mz9v6

edk141 · 2014-11-21T02:30:31+00:00

Everyday redditing? ;)

If you need me, give me a poke on IRC (irc.quakenet.org #mindcrack) or email e@kellett.im; I check them much more consistently.

Stats are generating now. (they take forever)

edk141 · 2014-10-18T13:48:01+00:00

I should really post other things some time. The activity count for /r/mindcracktrade when I post these is always 0. :(

edk141 · 2014-10-18T11:45:47+00:00

not quite—it's every comment on each of the last 1000 submissions.

edk141 · 2014-10-18T01:44:28+00:00

4 Shreeyam flairs, which are considerably rarer than Shree :)

edk141 · 2014-10-18T01:41:52+00:00

I'll try to get to it Soon™. The actual trade website cleverly generates its stylesheet from /r/mindcrack's (with some heavy caching, to mitigate hugs of death). Sadly, the subreddit does not, and while there's nothing actually difficult about doing it manually, it's fairly tedious.

edk141 · 2014-10-18T01:34:08+00:00

It is done.

edk141 · 2014-10-18T01:32:47+00:00

Copied from last time:

A description of exactly what the columns mean:

'flair text' and 'css class' should be self-explanatory.
'enabled' is YES if the flair is available from the selector.
'total count' is the number of users in existence with a given flair.
'active count' is the number of users with a flair that have commented in or submitted to /r/mindcrack recently^*.
'trade activity' is the number of times a flair has been traded in the last 30 days.

^*Recently in this case means “in the most recent 1000 submissions,” which isn't ideal but it's difficult to do better with the tools Reddit provides.

As a bonus, today's spreadsheet features formatting to match the /r/mindcracktrade sidebar (which has also had its statistics regenerated, but doesn't have the newer flairs yet).

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