@Derpy But I think (based on the bug and what Catjia said about it) that the lute hat is linked to commenting. Maybe something like "leave a comment on 3 different days" (though the number is probably not 3 because otherwise, someone should have regain it by now)
@Ael it is not that, it is just that it promotes participating in sites you won't care afterwards. And people like @Glorfindel who already have an account everywhere because they help with flags everywhere are kinda excluded by this.
@YaakovEllis The trigger for the Cruse of Oil hat is that you need to perform an action (upvote, downvote, answer, question, comment, review, edit, close vote, reopen vote, deletion vote and so on...) when it's december 18th any where in the world.
@YaakovEllis How about now? The trigger for the Cruse of Oil hat is that you need to perform an action (upvote, downvote, answer, question, comment, review, edit and so on...) when it's december 18th any where in the world.
@YaakovEllis Lemme try again: The trigger for the Cruse of Oil hat is that you need to perform an action (upvote, downvote, answer, question, comment and so on...) when it's december 18th any where in the world.
...Also known as "The Quest for the Winter Chicken of the Bash, Part 3" (part 2 here).
So, winter has come again. As every year, the staff members try their best to hide some funny Easter eggs, hoping no one would notice them too soon.
And as every year, their attempts are fooled by a single me...
> As every year, the staff members try their best to hide some funny Easter eggs, hoping no one would notice them too soon.
And as every year, their attempts are fooled by a single meddling pony.
is probably the reason for the "Stay Tuned..."
Little did they know that I played the Avatar on an old Ultima Online server...
> How to keep the Avatar busy for hours looking for a clue-- (please scroll forward) How to keep the Avatar very busy for hours looking for a clue-- (please scroll forward) How to keep the Avatar very very busy for hours looking for a clue -- (please scroll forward) How to keep the Avatar very -very- very busy for hours looking for a clue -- (please scroll forward) How to keep the Avatar so very -very- very incredibly busy for hours looking for a clue -- (please scroll forward) How to keep the Avatar so very -very- absolutely unbelievably and incredibly busy for hours looking for a clue…
@ppwater that is an endpoint used to retrieve hat data. It returns 404 when an invalid ID is provided... or no ID at all like in your case. — SPArcheon31 mins ago
It could be "Change your hat" I got it after I got the "Mariachi", it I recall correctly. And I changed my hat to that as I found it very nice :) Then.. I think I got the three at the same time, two of them as a result of the bug.
@RoryAlsop If it helps, I don't have Cordovane on MSE. Yet, I did the following action there: posted 4 answers, commented (4 times), upvoted a bunch of stuff
And changed my hat (like 3 times)
I did not: raise any flag, use the review queue, downvote anything
I did leave a few comments, but I do not recall any edits by the Question author to their posts after I left my comment. I recall the Question being closed.
Did you post an Answer on the meta? Or did you just hack it? Ahh.. well, I'd expect that if you hack to to get to the top of the leaderboard, you would get banned from playing :D
The Cordovan seem to not be "Post a comment on a Question and get a reply from author". I just checked one out where the commenter, that also answered did not get the hat.
It was 20 minutes ago though, so I'll give it another 10 minutes.
@KetZoomer I think it's interact with a post on the date of the 18th. I expect interact is vote or post an Answer or a Question. I do not think commenting counts. But.. I'm not sure about it :) I'm pretty sure it related to the 18th though.
@Dragonrage To be clear, when I say two triggers, I mean there's two different ways to get the hat... they're related but you don't have to do both of them, only one.
I would've assumed there'd be some sort of log of key presses while playing that's sent with the score and time, but I guess there isn't. That would probably help in finding faked runs, esp. if the random seed was included.
I'm quite sure Vexillologist is awarded for having a flag marked helpful. I just got it on Stack Overflow while I was away, and the only other thing that happened while I was away was that a flag I raised earlier today was marked helpful. This is also consistent with how I earned it earlier today on Super User, where I earned it shortly after having a flag marked helpful. Could an employee confirm whether or not this is correct?
@Dragonrage Yes, after 4 other Charcoal members agreed with my auto flag.
@Dragonrage It would have been flagged as spam (or possibly abusive) since the post consisted of nothing but a racial word repeated loads of times (which I won't repeat here)
@Tinkeringbell hmm, maybe. if anyone wants to flag something on arqade for like mod attention for me to mark as helpful i can do that. though they should make sure they dont have the hat there already
If I want to incentivize people to answer my silly unicorn hat dash strategy post, what's an appropriate bounty reason? "Draw attention" or "Improve details"? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/358088/…
You might want to add a disclaimer to your question then, that cheats can go to Yaakov's question, and that you're looking for legitimate ways of improving your gameplay?