Re: Consecutive Days Login @ AHQ

Thx for the insight once again, @puzzlezaddict.  And kudos on 250+ consecutive days!  So far, even 25 (+~25%) appears to be a bridge too far for me. Sigh.  Well, I've been reading a lot on the process of habit formation lately - guess this is a good test case for me to trial what I've learned (albeit possibly the least productive one available...lol).

As an aside, do you happen to know what the stats fields for reviews and blog posts track?  Just curious.  Cheers. (:

@suzushka  From what I've heard, the blog posting was going to be a thing several years ago, but then it got put on the back burner, the person who was going to do it left or moved to a different job, and it just kind of got dropped.  I have no idea about the reviews, but I suspect it's the same idea: an orphaned stat that's not connected to anything.  My totals are zero for each.

And, um, did you say 250 days?  I got my 365 day badge... in October... so....

Some might say your approach is much more well-adjusted.

Lol I have given up on trying to figure out the Badge system on AHQ. I have been compulsively on this site daily for the last six months but the highest badge I have received is 25 Days. For some of the other badges sometimes it seems like I am either getting them too early or really, really late. No worries, I am sure there is a reason why all this is happening. I am not overly concerned and I am certainly not complaining. I do like the badges and it's a cool surprise any time I get one. I figure it will all work out in the long run :D

May the 4th be with you! :D
#stayandplay

I was trying to think of a way to game the system (like changing my time zone +1 every hour). Or automating the process of login. Considering how obsolete my limited coding experience happens to be, I’ve decided it would be way more effective to just give @puzzlezaddict my password!

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@RandomBuzziness if the badge system wasn’t so quirky, it’d be way easier to ignore! I was surprised to get the 10 day badge and the easter egg. it took 109 XP to earn the 100 XP badge. I still have no idea what I did to earn the triple threat. And I definitely need to brainstorm more productive outlets to keep my problem solving skills sharp. Maybe tomorrow. lol. (And may the fourth be with you, too!)

Personally I think that whole system is a little... broken.

I've been logging on for years and I've never gotten more than 25. I know for a fact I've logged on every day this year and I still haven't gotten "50" yet.

What really cracks me up are the progress bar %-complete calcs. 

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@Psychotps dang, thats kinda crazy - i know badges don't matter in any real sense, but on a fundamental level, the whole concept of collecting tokens representing milestones..it does have a psychological draw.  fwiw, i’ll let you know if my time zone hack works. Theoretically, you could compress 25 days down to just over 2d (aka, creating a virtual wrinkle in time).

(Sorry. That was really nerdy.)

@Psychotps @suzushka  I think the percentage progress to the next level is the total, e.g. the distance between zero and two star pro, not the distance between one and two star pro.  So being above 90% already would make sense.

The ranks were extremely broken until a few months ago, when some stuff was fixed, and the levels readjusted a bit.  I guess they're still kind of broken.

As for the consecutive days badges, I don't know what's up with that.  I have seen that some people are still getting those badges, so it can't be completely broken.  But it's possible that a server had a hiccup at some point.  I guess all I'd say is when you login, check your status on your profile to make sure it says "last active: 2 minutes ago" or whatever, instead of "yesterday," just in case a login doesn't register.

Also, I manually login every day.  I've never had my browser set to remember my credentials, and I log out whenever I'm done posting for the moment.

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@suzushka wrote:

I was trying to think of a way to game the system (like changing my time zone +1 every hour).

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In a previous post (#6), and mainly in jest, I spitballed a couple hypothetical hacks. Thought I’d follow up for the sake of the hypothetical intrepid forum explorers that may stumble across this post in the future (and kudos to you rare, wonderful creatures who use the search function).

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I actually tested the one quoted above. either the premise is a nonstarter or I was lazy with my logic (i.e. +1 vs -1), but I’m fairly certain I actually broke my chain of consecutive days in the process of experimentation (i.e. mucking around with my time zone setting). My opinion, fwiw: cost:benefit doesn’t warrant confirmation of my results - you’ll save more time by not trying this one.

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