Questions tagged [fun]
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Regent of the Castle November competition
In an effort to change up the monthly answering competition, I introduce the 'King of the Castle' format.
Rules:
Day 0: Nobody is Regent. The Game of throne begins.
Continuous:
Answer a question ...
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October 2019 photo competition: “Musical instruments, buskers and travel related playing of music.”
The theme for the October 2019 photo competition is: "Musical instruments, buskers and travel related playing of music."
In a line of text please add location, date and why this for you is a travel ...
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October 2019 Old Question Answerathon! Winner Willeke
To give people time to enter, this will start on October 1st, UTC at midnight.
Rules: To stay in the competition, you must:
answer an unanswered question asked ON OR BEFORE MARCH 31, 2019 not asked ...
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September 2019 Old Question Answerathon! Winner Willeke
To give people time to enter, this will start on September 1st, UTC at midnight.
Rules: To stay in the competition, you must:
answer an unanswered question asked ON OR BEFORE JUNE 30, 2019 not asked ...
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September 2019 photo competition, Towers
Theme for September 2019 is Towers
In the Travel Stack Exchange chat we came to the following wording:
Any natural or human-made structure that rises beyond 100 feet (30 meters) and should be ...
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August 2019 photo competition: 'Seen through a train window.'
Theme for August 2019 is 'Seen through a train window' by mdewey.
As trains are not everywhere and at least some users are unable to use them, I want to widen the theme.
The photo has to be taken ...
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August 2019 Answerathon! Winner Willeke
To give people time to enter, this will start on August 1st, UTC at midnight.
Rules: To stay in the competition, you must:
answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for ...
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July 2019 photo competition. Bridges
Theme for July 2019, bridges.
Any bridge you can drive or walk over, or use whatever other method of
crossing. And that includes natural bridges which have no human access
and miniatures.
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June 2019 photo competition, Animals interacting with humans
In the words of the person who proposed it: gparyani
Theme: animals, interacting with humans or human-made objects, pets and zoo animals disallowed.
Animals should be alive and well and the ...
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May 2019 Photo competition, Staircases
The theme for May is Staircases, and in the words of the person who proposed it first, Bernhard:
I would say we can keep the scope a bit wide, i.e., as long as it consists of steps and is used by ...
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April 2019 photo competition, “Road trip” (Read, rules are different.)
For April I would like to change the rules a bit.
The theme will be 'road trip' as suggested by one user on the site.
One post per person but up to 5 photos in that one post, all about the 'same' ...
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March 2019 Photo competition. Bus stops +
For March 2019 the theme for the Travel Stack Exchange photo competition will be Bus stops and other places where people start (or finish) communal travel.
Inspiration: Bus and train stations, car ...
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February 2019 Photo competition
The theme for our February competition will be:
Water as (or being) influenced by humans.
To inspire people, this includes bird baths, people active on rivers, water features in cities and much more. ...
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Travel Winterbash 2018 - join us!
Winterbash is back for 2018, and there's always some friendly travel competition to see who can get the best/most awesome/most hats.
The Travel Leaderboard
Currently, the rankings are as follows:
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January 2019 Photo competition
Over the three months December 2018 - February 2019 I want to run a photo competition, (it can run longer if well accepted and active, but three months is guaranteed.)
The highest voted answer will ...
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Photo competition December 2018
Over the next three months I want to run a photo competition, (it can run longer if well accepted and active, but three months is guaranteed.)
The highest voted answer will get the fame and bragging ...
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September 2018 - Photo competition
Competition for September - theme: travelling selfie / photo of you. You must be in it.
Rules:
1 post per answer.
May submit more than 1 answer per user.
try and keep it non offensive
User posting ...
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The 2018 Easter Bounty Bonanza!
The 2018 Easter Bounty Bonanza
Rules
For the whole month of April we will be running a bounty giveaway. Users sign up and agree to place and keep three bounties live during the entire month. In ...
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Hats are back!! Get into the annual Winterbash! 456 users have earned 1354 hats thus far!
The annual Winterbash is on again, so grab your hats while you can!
Overall, Travel is currently ranked 26th.
Travel's own leaderboard is visible here.
Current top 5:
JonathanReez - 26 hats.
Mark ...
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Travel Badge Ranking List
In a fun attempt to try to add some competition other than just rep, let's look at the number of badges earned on the site.
I'll list some of the higher ones, but feel free to add / update rankings - ...
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April answerathon competition
To give people time to enter, this will start on April 1st, UTC at Midnight.
Rules: To stay in the competition, you must:
answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for ...
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2017: Trending our answered percentage ranking to 1st
I'd like to track this with the goal of getting the answer rate up to 100% (with rounding, at least), and our rank site-wide at 1st for answering, and as such will occasionally update below with ...
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Proposal: Voting Bonanza
We just ended the
The Great 5 Year Anniversary Bounty Bonanza - CLOSED - mts won
and it was a great success.
However one thing I personally found discouraging is the low number of votes attracted ...
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Bounty Bonanza impact
First, Congrats to @mts who won the 5 Year Bounty Bonanza with 24 offered bounties. And congrats to all who gave a grand total of 157 bounties in June.
Here I added some stats (from data.SE) on the ...
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2016 - Maintaining our '100%' answer rate and trending our answer rank to 1st
At time of writing (June 28th, 2016) we have:
166 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
146 questions with no answers
a 99%ish answer rate, which puts us at 16th overall on the network
I'd ...
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The Great 5 Year Anniversary Bounty Bonanza - CLOSED - mts won
The Great 5 Year Anniversary Bonanza
Our 5 year anniversary falls on the 28th of June this year, if we consider our birth date to be the date our public beta went live. Time to celebrate this Travel....
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Bounty Bonanza Interest Gauging and Commitment Levels
June 2016 will mark the 5th anniversary of the TSE site, to mark the occasion we can run a "Bounty Bonanza". This is a month long event where bounties are offered at an unprecedented level! Regular ...
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PROPOSAL - The Great 5 Year Anniversary Bounty Bonanza
The Proposals
Our 5 year anniversary falls on the 28th of June this year, if we consider our birth date to be the date our public beta went live. Time to celebrate this Travel.SE style - with a ...
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December double site competition around hats!
For those competitive, please simply edit the answer below when you want to 'enter' the competition.
It'll simply be: whoever gets the most combined numbers of hats on Travel.SE and on Expats.SE, in ...
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Bounty September competition
I propose we use some bounties during September to reduce the number of unanswered questions.
So if you want in, post your name in its own answer below. The idea being that you want to have the most ...
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Graphical Answerathon 2015 - Round 1 begins on the 15th of June 2015
Rules
Competition Rules
To stay in the competition, you must answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive at least one upvote for your answer. For the purposes of this competition, an ...
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Competition: Graphical Answerathon - A picture speaks louder than a thousand answers
Graphical Answerathon v1.0
Building on the success of previous Answerathon competitions, here is a new competition idea which rewards the most visually creative answer. For every competition week (7 ...
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May answerathon - CLOSED - Vince won
To give people time to enter, this will start on May 1st, UTC at midnight.
Rules: To stay in the competition, you must:
answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for your ...
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Travel.SE Competitions Leaderboard
Table
**Person Competitions Wins**
JoErNanO 6 3
Mark Mayo 5 1
Vince 5 1
mts 1 1
MeNoTalk 5 0
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April Answerathon - WINNER: Mark Mayo
To give people time to enter, this will start on April 1st, UTC at midnight.
Rules: To stay in the competition, you must:
answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for ...
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March Answerathon - WINNER: JoErNanO
To give people time to enter, this will start on March 1st, UTC at midnight.
Rules: To stay in the competition, you must:
answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote for ...
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February Answerathon - last man standing competition - WINNER JoErNanO
To give people time to enter, this will start on February 6th, UTC at midnight.
Rules: To stay in the competition, you must:
answer an unanswered question not asked by you AND receive an upvote.
to ...
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Competition: When will we hit 11,111 questions?
ENTRIES CLOSED - good luck everyone!
You have two-ish weeks to enter, with a date and time (UTC) for when you expect us to find question 11,111 on the front page.
Only three rules:
write a date and ...
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Competition: When will we hit 10,000 questions?
You have two-ish weeks to enter, with a date and time (UTC) for when you expect us to find question 10,000 on the front page.
Only two three four rules:
write a date and time (UTC) before the end ...
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Can we buy frequent flier miles with Unicoins?
I think a great feature to add would be the option to buy frequent flier miles with Unicons.
That's be great, right???
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Allow posts only when people are actually traveling?
I think we should classify all posts that people do while at home off-topic. We are a travel site and users should be true to the topic at hand. Why do I think this would be a good idea?
We have too ...
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Memes of travel.se
There are memes common to whole Stack Exchange and this one inspired me to ask here .
I therefore propose that this space be used to document the memes endemic to travel.se's culture.
One meme per ...
