@Catija probably just me being stupid, but since I still not get if Yaakov meant that I should keep looking/waiting. Can you tell me if I should spend more time on that "Stay Tuned..." thing?
@Catija Because anyone logged in can directly edit a wiki post, no? So.. me posted a suggested edit to the meta hat list post is not going to get me any hats, but it'll create work for 2 reviewers.
Even I likely don't know the depth of Easter eggs that Yaakov's put into this... but I don't think that has anything to do with hats. Sorry I can't be of much help.
@Scratte Oh, I'm an idiot. I had tag wiki in mind when you said wiki, not a Community Wiki post. :( Editing on those is restricted to ... over 100 rep? I don't remember the exact cutoff
I see :) That was an easy thing to miss. I didn't make that clear. But at least if users feel that the spoiler shouldn't be there, they can just reject the edit :)
Note I made the edit as anonymous non-logged in, as I do not have a profile on meta.stackexchange.
@Catija Could you authoritatively confirm if Edward needs a consecutive five-day period?
Because the trigger for Edward sounds more ambiguous “Each day during a 5-day period, ask a positively scored question and have no negatively scored, closed or deleted questions.” Unlike the criteria for the Curious badge which makes it very clear it need not be consecutive “Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days.”
Well I'm pretty sure Cruse of Oil is awarded for taking active part (e.g. upvoting a post) in a site you just joined. There was such trigger in the past. @Yaakov can you please confirm? Thanks!
@Panda Yaakov would have to tell you - the master spreadsheet has it just be on five days, not five consecutive ones, so if he followed that, then the description implying they have to be consecutive is incorrect.
@Panda after checking, yes. Well so it's awarded for a first interaction on a site when it's December 18th anywhere in the world.... (as @Glorfindel pointed out already)
Because the trigger for Edward sounds more ambiguous “Each day during a 5-day period, ask a positively scored question and have no negatively scored, closed or deleted questions.” Unlike the criteria for the Curious badge which makes it very clear it need not be consecutive “Ask a well-received question on 5 separate days.”
@Catija You just have to buy some Pinkie 4DE plushes (totally random proposal unrelated to the fact I still miss that one) and announce a swag on Meta...
The post on swag may be "We decided to not do it".. I do not see any promises in the announcement that there'll be an announcement. The announcement could even be "..but you get a hat every year that you earn another 100K"
hmm, i think the cruse of oil hat is something related to upvoting a question, potentially within the first 30 minutes of it being posted, but not entirely sure.
i got it on mse, and thats the only thing i really did that i can recall
@Kaz Did you also vote on these? Specificially, did you downvote and made a comment? My theory is that you need two actions on the same post to get this specific hat
@Ael No votes. Looked at 1 post, commented under the answer on another, commented under the question on a 3rd. Picked up disciple and balalaika (in that order, though I can't say if that's significant or if they were actually at the same time).
@Kaz For balalaika, I believe the theory is that someone need to upvote a comment you made. But yeah, it does seem like people earn disciple and then balalaika
@Dragonrage The age of the post has nothing to do with it. You just need to interact (vote, edit or post) on a site while it's the 18th somewhere in the world
@YaakovEllis Are disciple or balalaika bugged? I can't seem to find anyone who won one without the other. I just left one comment on MSE and got both hats (I didn't do anything else in the meantime)
Well "difficult" looks a lot differently from one site to another, but that's good to know :) Hopefully, both will be about moderating so I will be able to get both on IPS :D
I can see a way that the triggers are currently correct but I need to see if that's how it's supposed to be implemented. Now is a hard time since I'm guessing Yaakov is wrapping the end of his day.
mea culpa #3 - really hope this is the last time, but I just cleared all hat owners for balalaika and disciple. Both are secret, and both had something messed up with their triggers (and if I didn't clear them, then would be very hard to figure out what they are for). If you earned themm, they will be awarded to you again shortly.
@YaakovEllis So, among those who had Disciple and Balalaïka, there are those who earned it, and those who did not, and after the update, only those who earned them will have them back?
@Soleil-MathieuPrévot I read it to mean that those hats were cleared from everyone, regardless of whether they'd earned them or not, so even if you earned one/both, you'll have to earn them again.
If you currently meet the requirements for either hat, you will re-earn it immediately. If you do not, you will not get it back but you may still use it if you already have it applied to your avatar.
The trigger was incorrectly programmed in the system. Apparently the trigger for the two were the same but Balalaika was also awarding the hats too soon... (if y'all figure out the trigger eventually, it'll make more sense)... so that's why I know that no one should have Balalaika yet... So what Yaakov did was fix the trigger for Balalaika and change the one for Disciple.
