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When looking at another user's list of earned hats:*
only the images of the hats are shown. When I see a hat of which I am envious (want that Waldo hat!), I have to travel to the Winter Bash site and match up the colorful image I just saw with a line drawing to find its name and how to earn it.
It would greatly facilitate my keeping up with the Joneses if the name, and maybe even the criterion, for each hat was displayed in this popup.
*Or my own.
Each hat in the hat popup on the user profile page now has a tooltip showing the hat's name and short description.
No more clicking around randomly in trying to keep up with the Joneses Skeets!
Well, the bowtie, spinner, and cupcake hat (not sure about the others) are secret hats. So you're not supposed to know how to get 'em.
In addition, there's a way of getting the hat details if you know the name (no, not telling you, but it's rather obvious if you muck around). So I doubt this will be implemented.
Ah, you're talking about non-secret hats as well. I see no issue in doing it for those, then :)
I think it's better to have a way to learn about how to get even the secret hats. They're hard enough to find out about, and many people will find it harder-yet to get them.
Better to guide people by highlighting the preferred behaviors (as if the badges page didn't do it already). Lots of people doing semi-insincere actions to try to gain rep and unlock hats would pollute the site, a bit.
