Timeline for Swag is coming back! (indefinitely paused)
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| Nov 9, 2023 at 17:12 | comment | added | zcoop98 | @T.Sar To give a little bit of credit, it's easy to do swag– it's much harder (comparatively) to do good / "not crap" promo swag. I don't blame them for seemingly wanting to do it well; it's just frustrating that this is yet another area of promises that something is being worked on, only to be "indefinitely paused" sometime down the line. The lack of commitment to project, especially community-centric ones, is very tiring. | |
| Nov 9, 2023 at 11:28 | comment | added | T. Sar | I find it insane that even half-baked youtubers with their mon and a dog as staff can make swag without much trouble, yet a huge company like Stack Overflow can't get this right. | |
| Nov 7, 2023 at 23:51 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | @TylerH I think we're reading it the same way :) | |
| Nov 7, 2023 at 23:13 | comment | added | V2Blast | The addition of updates inconsistently above and below the original post gets progressively more confusing with each new update. They should all be above, or all below. Or better yet, the updates should probably have been made as their own post instead... Especially one clarifying that no part of the original announcement is relevant at this point since it's indefinitely paused. (If there is more news about swag coming back in the future, it should definitely be a new post.) | |
| Nov 7, 2023 at 15:21 | comment | added | TylerH | @MadPhysicist Things are rarely as simple as they sound. In this case, it actually is. Online merch shops and distribution is a thoroughly solved problem and has been for over a decade. | |
| Nov 7, 2023 at 15:14 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | @TylerH. On the one hand it's never that simple. On the other, we're being told where to shove it. Whether you like the fact that it's being done nicely is up to you :) | |
| Nov 7, 2023 at 14:39 | comment | added | TylerH | Hiring a merchandising intern to open a web shop and manage this plus that would solve this problem for you. It would cost ~$20/hour and 15-30 minutes of supervisor time a month approving the intern's merch designs, and would pay for itself. | |
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| Dec 7, 2022 at 15:00 | comment | added | E.P. | @V2Blast Please understand where I'm coming from -- the initial posting of this thread did a lot to mend frayed SO-community relations and create goodwill, but from where I am standing this goodwill is not just evaporating, it's souring. My previous comments show I am clearly aware of the May 2022 update (so it is hard to read a pointer to that update as anything other than insulting) and that I am disappointed that nothing has happened in the seven months since it was posted. Is there really nothing to report regarding what the timeline is for the next status change? | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 21:05 | comment | added | V2Blast StaffMod | @E.P.: Yes, Juan left the company earlier this year. See Rosie's update from May 2022 at the top of the post for the latest status on this issue. | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 20:28 | comment | added | E.P. | @V2Blast Upon closer inspection, it seems my comment just now was mis-addressed -- the hold on swag has been in place for so long that the original poster no longer works for SO, right? | |
| Dec 6, 2022 at 20:24 | comment | added | E.P. | @JuanM It's disappointing to see the complete lack of movement on this after more than six-to-eight months. Any updates on when the status might change? | |
| Nov 18, 2022 at 12:08 | comment | added | mikemaccana | Thanks @JuanM! I just hit 100K, so I guess I can wait a little longer and some swag will come? | |
| Sep 28, 2022 at 18:37 | answer | added | Chris | timeline score: -1 | |
| May 4, 2022 at 0:29 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
The original author of this post no longer works for Stack Exchange. "Myself" refers to them, not the editor.
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| May 3, 2022 at 22:19 | history | edited | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 3, 2022 at 19:22 | history | edited | V2BlastStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 3, 2022 at 19:16 | history | edited | V2BlastStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 3, 2022 at 14:29 | history | edited | Luuklag | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Put this on top as this post is quite long, easy to spot when you click the link this way.
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| Jan 13, 2022 at 20:16 | comment | added | Juan M StaffMod | @undetectedSelenium The list for the 100K and 250K users is very long! Your name will be coming up in a future wave. Thanks for your continued patience! | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 14:02 | comment | added | undetected Selenium | @JuanM Even I have achieved 100K threshold on SO but have never received or been contacted about getting 100K swag | |
| Jan 13, 2022 at 13:57 | comment | added | Juan M StaffMod | @theforestecologist Let me look into this for you. In the meantime, please send a message about this using the Contact Us form and I'll have that ticket assigned to me. | |
| Jan 6, 2022 at 4:07 | comment | added | theforestecologist | @JuanM I was elected a mod in 2019 (biology.SE), and I still have never received or been contacted about getting mod swag. :'(. Even my spam folder has been waiting for that email all these long months :p! Any chance I can still get anything?? A mod hat and Nalgene would be cool :D And/or socks. | |
| Dec 7, 2021 at 6:18 | comment | added | Ankit Sharma | Recently received it for Movies & TV 100k rep | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 15:28 | answer | added | muru | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 13, 2021 at 14:26 | answer | added | enderland | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 29, 2021 at 10:21 | comment | added | tripleee | My 100k swag arrived yesterday. The socks are slightly different from what's in the presentation above. I reached 100k on Stack Overflow in the summer of 2020 and received the swag order form in August 2021. | |
| Sep 9, 2021 at 6:27 | comment | added | Holger | @JuanM that’s great news. Thanks. One conclusion is that it would improve the communication to include something along “we’ll contact you again” in the mail. I suppose, we all have experience with processing backlogs… | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 16:17 | comment | added | Juan M StaffMod | @VonC We're working on that as we speak!! We have not forgotten you. ;) | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 16:13 | comment | added | VonC | @JuanM Out of curiosity, do you have a similar list for the 1M milestone? | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 16:10 | comment | added | Juan M StaffMod | @Holger Swag is not gone! Your name has gone into a list and you'll be contacted about this once we get through the current backlog. Thanks for your patience on this, we're getting through that backlog as fast as we can. And yes, "Congratulations!" on this achievement. That's quite a milestone. | |
| Sep 8, 2021 at 15:24 | comment | added | Holger | Is it gone again? All I got for earning 250K, is a “congratulations” e-email. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 18:12 | comment | added | user707129 | @JuanM Seems like I missed it, thanks for the clarification. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 18:09 | comment | added | Juan M StaffMod | @Xnero We did get your message and responded. Maybe it was just missed? Yes, you will be added to the list of mods who will get swag along with other moderators who did not get their packages either. | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 18:07 | comment | added | user707129 | @JuanM I have contacted "contact us" about this but haven't got a response yet. Do past moderators who did not get their initial swag shipment get swag even though they are no longer mods anymore? | |
| Jun 11, 2021 at 17:51 | history | edited | Juan MStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2021 at 18:48 | comment | added | Juan M StaffMod | The packages will go out in waves - there's too many recipients to include all at the same time so we're breaking the total list into different sections. Wave 1 contains the first recipients. We email them and get their responses. Then, the items are shipped to them. We'll then continue with the next waves. There's a total of 3 waves for the year. | |
| May 29, 2021 at 10:08 | comment | added | E.P. | Can you expand a bit more on what the "first wave" contains, and on what the timeline is for further waves? We're approaching the six-month mark after this was posted. | |
| May 5, 2021 at 14:46 | answer | added | Dennis Williamson | timeline score: 11 | |
| May 5, 2021 at 14:35 | history | edited | Juan MStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2021 at 13:53 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 10:33 | comment | added | Stephie | @amWhy I got a box - took a while, but who cares. My coworkers used to cast jealous glances at my water bottle, back then when we saw each other f2f. | |
| Jan 10, 2021 at 6:02 | comment | added | Pierre-Luc Pineault | Will you also go through people who were supposed to get swag but never got it? I believe I was on the "6 to 8 weeks" list for taking the Developer Pre-Survey 2017 or something else from that era. Or I suppose there's no "official" list anywhere? | |
| Jan 10, 2021 at 0:59 | comment | added | Honey | I anticipate to hit 100k in 2yrs. Will the swag still be there in 2 years? 🤓 | |
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| Jan 5, 2021 at 9:05 | answer | added | Ankit Sharma | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 5, 2021 at 5:30 | comment | added | Ankit Sharma | Now I don't remember when I got 100k on movies.stackexchange.com, but surely there was no swag involved. | |
| Jan 2, 2021 at 19:10 | comment | added | Hack5 | I found an identical SO T-shirt in a second hand store :P | |
| Jan 1, 2021 at 2:15 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | Has it been confirmed that this requires 100k on a single site, not 100k across the network? | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 22:17 | comment | added | BlueRaja | @Catija: So I have 180k but don't qualify because I'm active in multiple communities? :( | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 13:58 | comment | added | Rory Alsop | @Catija - is the per site only absolute? Swag for non-SO folks - a couple of thoughts | |
| Dec 30, 2020 at 11:58 | comment | added | asprin | The qualifying bar is way out of reach for me.....guess just gotta look at them and be content | |
| Dec 30, 2020 at 5:07 | comment | added | Geee | What about new contributor!!?? Specially, I need more swag to be great SE, SO member I need T-shirt 😭 | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 15:13 | comment | added | Nikolas | 100k/250k shall be a sum of reputation across all the StackExchange sites or of just one particular one (StackOverflow...)? | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 13:55 | comment | added | maxathousand | Just wish swag was available to the smaller communities too! User Experience will probably forever remain swagless with a hard 100k requirement, instead of one calculated based on the size of user base or site's activity. | |
| Dec 29, 2020 at 11:20 | answer | added | Ryan M | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @EtackSxchange We have no goals to be non-profit. | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 15:54 | comment | added | user829542 | Isn't this in contrast with the site's goal of being non-profit? | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 7:56 | answer | added | Erwin Brandstetter | timeline score: 20 | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 4:22 | comment | added | Tim Biegeleisen | May we ask what the rough timeline for rolling this out would be? | |
| Dec 28, 2020 at 2:08 | comment | added | user178465 | Is this only for SO, or other sites too? | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 20:37 | answer | added | D. Ben Knoble | timeline score: 8 | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 19:15 | comment | added | amWhy | @Mureinik Yes indeed, that's the one! ;-) | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 19:13 | comment | added | Mureinik | @amWhy I think you're talking about this: Announcing Our Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way! aren't you? | |
| Dec 27, 2020 at 19:08 | comment | added | amWhy | Whatever happened to the users promised swag for their contributions three or four years ago during christmas. I believe JNet was in charge of that. Users were asked to offer, in answers, the good deeds they had done of the Holidays? | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 8:18 | history | rollback | Yaakov EllisStaffMod |
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| Dec 25, 2020 at 7:36 | history | edited | muru | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
the list of swag items and pics seem a good fit for a table
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| Dec 23, 2020 at 16:32 | comment | added | user226651 | Guess I missed my swag email back in the old days when I hit 100K. Not sure why one would use email and not a notification on the site. | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 20:20 | comment | added | Paŭlo Ebermann | Am I the only one who read "sock puppet" instead of "pop socket"? (I guess we can convert the socks into sock puppets.) | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 18:25 | comment | added | m0sa Mod | hot take: this is better than hats! | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 15:36 | answer | added | Rand al'Thor | timeline score: 19 | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 15:04 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot | @animuson I must have missed it somehow, I'm assuming that I don't need the old email anymore though and it's going to be based on new ones being sent out regardless of what happened with the old one? | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 14:58 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | @TheLethalCarrot I honestly have no idea, I'd guess within 24 hours. But your account says you were sent the email on March 28. | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 12:40 | comment | added | AncientSwordRage | Two questions, is there an SEDE query I can run to show the users on our site, via a meta post, who should be eligible. Are you taking into account how much bounty was given? I'm just a tiny amount off, but I'm sure someone else might become eligible if they had, say 75k rep, but had given >25k in bounties? | |
| Dec 22, 2020 at 10:26 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot | @animuson How often does the script run? I had the emails set off so never got it when I passed 100k on SFF and turned it back on a couple of days ago. As far as I can tell I haven't had the email come through yet. | |
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| Dec 22, 2020 at 8:06 | comment | added | Joachim | What about the nature of the fabric and brands of the clothing, are they ethically sourced? I understand the prices can't be too high, but I'm not sure if the alternative would be a very welcome token of appreciation. | |
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| Dec 22, 2020 at 3:12 | comment | added | Robotnik | Constructive criticism: The SO socks are a great design, but the SE ones just look like a plain set of Blue-striped socks that one could buy from pretty much any dept. store. Please consider a redesign once the current stock is cleared - perhaps one that uses the SE logo directly (similar to the SO design?) | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 21:12 | comment | added | DavidG | @Catija Boo, one size too small :( | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 18:45 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @DavidG The answer is XS - XXL. Standard American T-Shirt sizing. | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 18:00 | comment | added | DavidG | @FeRD Pop socket is a thing you stick on the back of your mobile phone so you can take selfies. | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 17:58 | comment | added | FeRD | @DavidG All three sizes — S, XS, and XXS — of course! But since I have no idea what a Pop Socket is even after looking at the photo of it, I choose to assume it's a shrinkwrap t-shirt applicator tool. They thought of everything! | |
| Dec 21, 2020 at 10:16 | comment | added | DavidG | What sizes are the t-shirts going to be available in? | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 20:03 | comment | added | ouflak | Do moderators of Beta sites also get swag? | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 17:30 | answer | added | Luis Mendo | timeline score: 52 | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 17:12 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | @JourneymanGeek or a new set of keys? | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 9:40 | comment | added | Ulrich Diez | As someone who is rather new to the StackExchange-Community I have no idea what this swag-thing is about. At first glimpse I thought it is about the SourceWare Archive Group (SWAG) and about the programming language Pascal. But it seems to be about clothing. ;-) | |
| Dec 20, 2020 at 2:29 | comment | added | VonC | For what it is worth, I would be willing to pay for shipping costs, if that can help in my case. | |
| Dec 19, 2020 at 12:01 | comment | added | stevec | The swag is great, and I am glad it can't be purchased. Its scarcity makes it feel more valuable. | |
| Dec 19, 2020 at 11:17 | comment | added | Alexey Romanov | I didn't get swag because you weren't shipping to Russia at the moment; I assume you still don't? | |
| Dec 19, 2020 at 9:58 | answer | added | Tim | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 23:10 | answer | added | Michael Hampton | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 18:40 | answer | added | E.P. | timeline score: 36 | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 15:43 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | @AsteroidsWithWings I believe simply turning on that email bucket again will trigger the Congrats email to be sent the next time the script checks for eligible candidates, which should drop you into the bucket of "people sent the email while we weren't sending swag." The script only checks that you are above the threshold and haven't received the email before not that you just recently passed the threshold. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 14:39 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @852172 It's a thing that adheres to the back of a smart phone making it easier to hold and can act as a prop for setting the phone on a surface. popsockets.com | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 14:28 | comment | added | Beta | If it were available for sale, I would lose all interest in it. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 13:45 | comment | added | Asteroids With Wings | @TimBiegeleisen It seems I have those emails turned off. Either I didn't realise that, or I didn't expect it to be the only channel by which such things would be presented to me. Either way I've missed out. But glad all those who reached it later are getting something. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 12:13 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @MartinBean Just post ten complete answers a day, including the highest possible quality answer on every single bountied question. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 11:10 | comment | added | Martin Bean | Been contributing to Stack Overflow for over 10 years now and still only at 32K rep 😩 How do people find the time to get 100K, 250K, plus reps with a full-time job…? | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 9:41 | comment | added | wimi | Do we need to activate "Community Milestones" email notifications now to get this email? | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 4:10 | comment | added | cs95 is giving SE a 2nd chance | Amazing, faith restored in SE management. The previous announcement to discontinue swag came after all the fudgestorm of last year and felt a bit spiteful | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 4:06 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | As per a previous conversation... could someone send Tim Post a pair of socks? :D | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 3:41 | answer | added | Steve Bennett | timeline score: 41 | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 2:13 | comment | added | Tim Biegeleisen |
@AsteroidsWithWings Check your email for the text Congratulations for hitting a quarter-million points on Stack Overflow ... if you see this, then check the date. That you never received swag means that you did get the notification, but did not get sent anything. I got this email back in April, 2019.
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| Dec 18, 2020 at 1:38 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @ifconfig it's per site. Sorry. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 1:26 | comment | added | ifconfig | Not that I'm anywhere near either of those rep requirements (XD), but is that total across all of the SE network, or would one need to have 100k/250k on a single site? | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 1:16 | comment | added | gbianchi | @Catija I will convince Gervasio to make a metting in his house (?) :p | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 1:10 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @gbianchi unfortunately our swag supplier can only send mugs in quantities of 40 at a time, so unless you have a cafe, probably more than appropriate. | |
| Dec 18, 2020 at 1:02 | comment | added | gbianchi | Great to hear about this!!! you know I only became moderator for a mug... that I don't see on the list.. you just brake my heart!!!! :) (jokes asides, this is great).... | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 22:24 | comment | added | Richard | What about 500K? | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 22:04 | answer | added | Mithical | timeline score: 33 | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 21:55 | comment | added | user1271772 | @animuson does the user need to have got 100k new points between March 2019 and December 2020? Could they have earned 99k before March 2019 and 1k after March 2019? | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 21:34 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | @Machavity Getting a sock to 200k? Even the bears of Security SE haven't managed that yet. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 21:28 | comment | added | Michael come lately | Related links? | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 20:28 | comment | added | Glorfindel Mod | @rene you already have a sock: meta.stackexchange.com/users/269324/kennybot so one of them definitely matches. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 20:15 | comment | added | Machavity | @rene You get the second sock at 200k. Incentive! | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 19:42 | answer | added | Luuklag | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 19:39 | comment | added | Luuklag | @Richard IIRC SWAG shipping was previously done by SE employees themselves. From this question I take that they have now outsourced this to a dedicated fulfilment provider. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:27 | comment | added | Shadow Wizard | First decision of the company for looong time with which I 1000% agree. Thumbs up. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:17 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | @AsteroidsWithWings Anyone who hit the milestone at that time should have gotten swag via the previous process. This process is meant to cover everyone who became eligible after we stopped sending it out. If you never got any emails about it before, you probably had emails for Community Milestones turned off. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:15 | comment | added | Asteroids With Wings | Yeah looks like it happened around Feb 2018. Is there a reason for the big gap in eligibility? | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:13 | comment | added | Asteroids With Wings | Aww. My main account hit 300k in May 2019 so it's unlikely I hit 250k after March 2019. Definitely never got swag for it though. Guess I miss out :( | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:06 | comment | added | TheLittleNaruto | Am I eligible? ? ^^ | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:05 | answer | added | GlorfindelMod | timeline score: 133 | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:02 | comment | added | Richard | SO has historically been abysmal at managing swag deliveries and the last we heard it was discontinuing it because of the cost and the persistent failure to manage it properly. Has something changed internally? | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 17:58 | comment | added | Neo | I haven't gotten a single bit of SWAG, looking forward to having more swag than @Snow s pup. ;-} | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 17:55 | comment | added | rene Mod | you’ll get one selected randomly ... I hope that is not per sock ... | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 17:41 | comment | added | Juan M StaffMod | I want to send swag to every single moderator once we send it to the "newest" additions to the team. I'll have more on that after we get the initial queues taken care of! | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 17:41 | comment | added | 10 Rep | I'll take my algebra notes with that pen you're offering :D | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 17:32 | comment | added | user960635 | Anything for past moderators? SE is awesome by the way! I'm not just saying that to get free swag. | |
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