Some caps are still given out. I received two new article-writing caps recently, and I believe that the caps for fanning people, number of years of membership etc are still being handed out (but I haven't gotten any recently myself). I'm not sure about the random ones. I think the holiday ones have been stopped.
From what I understand, new caps are no longer being added to the site, but the ones that had already been made are still intact and can be earned as per usual.
For example, you can still earn caps for adding new friends, submitting articles, and being a member of Fanpop for a certain amount of time, but holiday caps are no longer given out to those who log in on special days of the year.
posted over a year ago
I thought the article caps were a recent addition. I received my 10-articles cap about a month ago, even though I'd written 10 articles over a year previously.
Yeah, I think they came much later than the others. They might have been around for a year or so? I'm not sure who made them (if it was the same artist who made the old caps) but I don't think any more have been added to the site since.