David's hat store

8:54 AM

So @animuson did a deletion of all answers besides the CW one

I lost like 400 rep

9:30 AM

Do we even know that all the secret hats have been discovered?

Q: Can we get some hints for the 2015 secret hats?

well, there's kinda confirmation there's still hats left

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We're a week into Winter Bash 2015, and a lot of secret hats have been found. How do you get these secret hats for yourself? Well, figuring that out is half the fun! I mean, you could be boring and just cheat off other people's work, but nuts to that, I say. There's nothing worse than a cheaty ch...

If you couldn't tell from the fact that this is "Hint pack 1," there will be at least a "Hint pack 2" down the line. — Pops ♦ Dec 21 at 18:06

Intersting..

1. The number of secret hats is itself a secret until the end of Winter Bash. 2. Using CW as a rep denial mechanism has always been a bit of an antipattern. Not awarding rep to one person for a post owned by multiple people makes sense on the surface, but taking rep out of the picture isn't the primary purpose of CW. And since these posts are explicitly designed to not be edited, CW would be especially semantically wrong here. — Pops ♦ 16 hours ago

I suppose we'll see

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nice

9:33 AM

:-)

I never really could understand ascii art..

hey - it is easy enough to make once you get the hang of it...

I still don't know why I didn't get the Vote Early VOte often hat

Pops said it had something to do with retracting votes but I used those votes on other posts then

I just used all my daily votes, - no - 39 - so I could still review :-)

for 7 days

I did that too. Do I still have a week?

Maybe Ill try again

9:38 AM

no idea-

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 7 secs ago, by SmokeDetector

@Quill-HATMANIAC GO EARN HATS! Winter Bash won't end for 9 days, 14 hours, 20 minutes, and 59 seconds. :D

That's how long we have left ^

@Hosch250 if you want a hat, post a question at UTC whateverhour:01

UTC today

Do per-site metas work for the Sun Wukong hat ?

A: Continue prompting till criteria fulfiled

9:58 AM

Merry Christmas. If anybody wants to help me gain a hat (Copernicus), that would be great. If not, that's also fine.

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@G-man Yes, they do.

My post on MSE meta currently has 6 upvotes. If I ask 5 people in chat to downvote it, I should gain the hat. Is that allowed?

@G-man Go for it

@Eran I can't hear you, so I'm not sure if you are doing an evil laugh right now. But still, I request everybody in this room to please downvote this post.

@Eran how do you intend to get copernicus from that post?

@G-man I can't, I need 125 to downvote your post.

Huh, Ill go to the maths chat room then

10:05 AM

@G-man I posted an answer to a question that had an accepts answer. I need 3 upvotes now.

Oh yeah, I thought copernicus was the gold badge hat

+1 btw

@G-man thanks

Now, if only I could think of some decent questions to ask, I could get more hats

Just ask questions that somehow relate to Batman.

10:29 AM

@G-man we shouldn't be gaming hats, but sure, in the spirit of christmas

Is the archimedes hat supposed to look like a bathtub? Because it sure does.

Yes it is

It's a reference to the famous story that Archimedes solved the density formula while in the bath

Eureka!

According to the story, he ran naked to the king's palace to tell him the news

They were trying to find a way to test whether the king's new crown was truly gold without damaging it

True gold is atomically heavier than false gold, and thus the density formula helps