Ye Olde Hat Shoppe

@SevenSidedDie Good thing the year is almost over?

You choose to act a certain way. The hats don't make you do it.

@bluefeet That's why I like hats that help "clean up" (reviews and such) rather than hats for adding to the mess :)

@AlexanderO'Mara is just great

Hats are fun but let's not litter the sites in the process of trying to get them.

@SamuelLiew encouraging users to post answers that are immediately deleted after getting an upvote and you award the bounty is highly disappointing. I get you want to help people get hats but it's encouraging bad behavior and I'd recommend stopping it

There's a lot of stuff that happened with that question. I started to write a comment, lost the text I had written because I voted to close first for some reason, rewrote the comment, the OP answered and edited the question, I replied with another comment, reopened the question, voted it up, and finally deleted 5 comments.

@Rob next question is who uses a windows phone?

#totallynotgamingthesystem

ok, awarding a bounty gave all other upvoted answers this is fine.

I don't want to be a hypocrite, editing out "Thanks in advance" while my old questions contain just that

badum-tss

them is fighting words.

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@David how dare you forget your capitalization

Yeah. Wolves are awesome!

I just deleted all of the comments I got and it worked.

I didn't skip any edits and I got it. Someone recently suggested that it might be 5 of some combination of improve/edit reject/edits in one day, and that tracks with my activity when I got it.

It's important to get message Starred in +12 / -12 Hours

Ah ah, thank you, happy new year! (China here, it's 5 am)

@AndrewLi on Code Golf, if someone can manage to answer with 1 byte, is that a hole in one?

So I wish everyone a nice transition into 2017 :) a hopefully better year!

(PS could I have a star too?)

Wow, What's with the star fest?

enjoy your hats people :D

Lol ;)

Happy New Year

yeah, I need only 100 more votes on this answer for a gold badge. (just sayin')

"my boss has me working 52 weeks a year" ? I started the answer that slavery is illegal.

why would you want to not see hats o_O

@KazWolfe joke) I watched the video on youtube and there was a frame with all hats)

it can be new hats image.prntscr.com/image/8a2014492b874de7a37fc7f933c8bc92.png

I'm pretty sure I've changed my hat every day, so it may be what Panda said about changing it 3 consecutive days.

I must say I was very surprised to see trendsetter today. I new the solstice hat would be coming, and was expecting something like the hater. I really thought that was it. but this, wow you have put the wonder back in to the bash. Now I dont know what to expect around the next corner.

@X-27 naaw those were removed because they were really time consuming for employees

It's weird, you'd think deleting upvoted comments is something SE wouldn't want to encourage

To be clear, I am not asking people to upvote...

the whole "6 o'clock somewhere in the world" is very much like "It's 5 o'clock somewhere" meaning that because the timezones are usually a different of +/- 1 hour... somwhere is 6 o'clock at any given time

The Hatter: ask a question on the fourth or the six day of the week when it is six o'clock anywhere in the world.

@SenjutiMahapatra one of good theories is "accepted answer with 0 score"

@SevenSidedDie and most people are proud to COLLECT ALL THE THINGS

@TheSharpieOne it doesn't end till the new year starts ;)

@AdamLear Half of the hat requirements are abusive. Close a thread, edit it, reopen it. Post an answer on an ignored question from years back. You provide the cheese, then complain when the mouse runs the maze.