Winter Bash 2020

U11-Forward

10:01 AM

@Ael I need it too!

Yaakov Ellis

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A: Show off your hats! (2020 Edition)

Can we please have shout out to the untiring, ever-present Community User?

Community User joining in the fun

U11-Forward

@YaakovEllis Nice UVed!

@Derpy Looks like you got Samovar and Give a leg up, how?

Derpy

@U11-Forward Samovar must be something flag/review related.

U11-Forward

@Derpy Ok thanks for the hint!

Derpy

Give a leg up.... don't know, probably something like gaining privileges.

Got it on Arqade as a new user, probably related to getting to 200 rep plus in a short time thanks to a good question.

Or something like upvote and accept answer

I can tell you it is NOT related to bounties since I gave none.

U11-Forward

10:15 AM

thanks again

Derpy

Even if that name "give a leg" would fit "give rep in bounty"

anyway, also lost the lute and the headphones.

U11-Forward

@Derpy Yeah that's a big prob for me

Ael

@Derpy For the headphone, it was figured out what it is around 3am (UTC) today

(I can tell you if you want)

U11-Forward

@Ael Can you tell me?

Ael

@Derpy For the lute, apparently the trigger involve a "for x days" so no one has it yet

@U11-Forward You need to follow 8 posts

U11-Forward

10:26 AM

@Ael I did it see if i get the hat!

Derpy

@Ael thanks, you reminded me that I should a) change an hat everyday and b) perform at least a search every day.

just in case more triggers were reused

Ael

@Derpy I do hope it's not about changing hat. I like this one ><

Derpy

@Ael change without moving it, wait 10 seconds, switch back.

I just switched to another one briefly, no one would even notice.

And since there was an hat for this in the past... who knows

Ael

@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)

U11-Forward

@Ael I got Disciple hat thank you so much!

Ael

10:33 AM

No problem ^^

Derpy

@Ael FOLLOW? Not "Favorite"? I have to actually subscribe to spam? No thanks.

Ael

@Derpy You do realize that you can unfollow right after getting the hat, right?

Also, you can follow very old post that no one is likely to do anything on

Derpy

@Ael yep, you can game the hat for sure like most of them, seems just weird to promote THAT feature.

I already am not a fan of the "New account hat" we have every year

Ael

@Derpy Yeah, I'm not a fan of this one either. I like the idea of being able to win every hats in my favorite site

As for the promotion of this specific feature, IMO it's probably just because it's a new one

Derpy

@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.

Rory Alsop

10:42 AM

@Ael there's a lute? You mean I can swap my Balalaika for another instrument?

Ael

@RoryAlsop No x) I was just re-using Derpy words

Tinkeringbell

@RoryAlsop Don't let go of your balalaika, you might not get it back. Yaakov stole all the hats again.

Ael

@Tinkeringbell At least "Milliner" hats are still here even when they shouldn't be anymore :D

Tinkeringbell

I noticed this morning, yeah. That's something at least.

Rory Alsop

11:02 AM

Would be amusing in the list of hats earned you also got "you lost Balalaika on Stack Overflow

This would explain why I didn't get Milliner - I must have lost my Balalaika just before getting Disciple

Ael

11:12 AM

@RoryAlsop The bug was basically making people earn Balalaika and Disciple at the same time ^^

So you probably hat both those and was missing another one

Rory Alsop

@Ael weird - I got Balalaika yesterday, but would not have got Disciple if I hadn't read clues in here

So I think I'm not in that use case

Ankit Sharma

I got curse of oil on meta but I did nothing

just one DV

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one DV is enough... @AnkitSharma

Rory Alsop

@AnkitSharma curse of oil is almost any activity (I tested on many sites with different actions)

Ael

@RoryAlsop It needs to be done while it's the 18th somewhere in the world, though

Tinkeringbell

11:15 AM

@Ankit @Rory though 'curse' sounds way more exiting, it's actually 'cruse' :P

Ankit Sharma

I did on scifi didn't got

Rory Alsop

@Tinkeringbell (yeah, I know - it autocorrected)

@Ael yarr

Ankit Sharma

oops

Tinkeringbell

@RoryAlsop Ah, the curse of autocorrect ;)

Ankit Sharma

I had no idea about the word cruse

So I wrote wrong only

Rory Alsop

11:18 AM

@AnkitSharma It was what made me look for dates - as I have only ever seen a cruse mentioned in religious texts

That's how I figured it out

Ankit Sharma

Got cruse of oil on scifi and bricks too with 1 Dv

U11-Forward

11:30 AM

Do I need upvote for Kitsune hat?

I mean an upvote for the answer.

Yes i just got it!!!

27 hats now!

@YaakovEllis Can you please confirm that Movin' on Up hat is to post an answer that gets accepted but less votes that other answers?

Ankit Sharma

11:51 AM

Only 17 here :D

U11-Forward

@AnkitSharma Oof

Ankit Sharma

This year I am slower :D

U11-Forward

Last year you won right...

Ankit Sharma

Traffic is less this year on my favourite sites and even office work

Rory Alsop

@Tinkeringbell the cruse of autocorrect...

Ankit Sharma

11:53 AM

@U11-Forward I don't remember, usually I miss 1'/2 hat

I was in blog for a hat bug stackoverflow.blog/2020/01/15/… ;)

U11-Forward

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You were off by one hat @AnkitSharma

Ankit Sharma

@U11-Forward every year same story :D 1 or 2 hat :D

U11-Forward

@AnkitSharma Yeah that's sad...

Ankit Sharma

2018 I was not even in blog

U11-Forward

@AnkitSharma Yeah...

Ankit Sharma

11:58 AM

2016/2017/2019 I made into blog

But never no 1 :D

But this year neither have much time for hat nor submitting answer to Show off your hats

U11-Forward

@AnkitSharma Haha yeah

Ankit Sharma

u10/u11

How is this increment processing?

U11-Forward

Haha lol changed my name!

Derpy

@AnkitSharma not talking about ordinal markup I hope.....

Ankit Sharma

I didn't even change my pic from far too long

Yaakov Ellis

12:09 PM

@U11-Forward correct (except for one small detail)

U11-Forward

@YaakovEllis You answer needs to be also upvoted?

Yaakov Ellis

@Ael was a copy paste error - I defined the trigger for disciple but forgot to use it when setting up the model.

@U11-Forward almost

U11-Forward

12:24 PM

@YaakovEllis Hmm also question needs a positive score?

user435118

12:36 PM

@YaakovEllis Can you confirm that Cruse of Oil is downvote any post?

U11-Forward

@Xnero No not only for downvoting post, for all actions

user435118

@U11-Forward What do you mean?

U11-Forward

@Xnero I got it for upvoting something.

user435118

@U11-Forward I only got it for a downvote.

user435118

Maybe you upvoted and upvoted at similar times?

U11-Forward

12:40 PM

@Xnero I'm pretty sure that you can get the hat for Answer, UV, DV, question

and so on...

user435118

@U11-Forward I don't think so.

Yaakov Ellis

@U11-Forward bingo

U11-Forward

@YaakovEllis Wow I got it right! thanks Yaakov

Yaakov Ellis

@Xnero downvotes are included, but that is a very incomplete definition, missing most of it

user435118

@YaakovEllis Hmmm... Perform any negative action on a post? (down vote, delete vote, cast a helpful red flag)?

U11-Forward

12:52 PM

@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.

Yaakov Ellis

@U11-Forward you included more actions than the actual trigger, but on the right track

U11-Forward

@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.

Yaakov Ellis

@U11-Forward like I said, you are including more actions than actually included in the trigger

U11-Forward

@YaakovEllis So i guess edit doesn't count...

Panda

@YaakovEllis Could I check if my theory for Give a Leg Up is correct?

11 hours ago, by Panda

Give a Leg Up is possibly having a first-time user answer your question.

U11-Forward

12:56 PM

@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.

@Panda Hello Panda

@Panda If that's true it would be hard...

Maybe not who knows, you have to test your luck

Tinkeringbell

@RoryAlsop And this is why I'm not allowed to make puns :P

motosubatsu

@Tinkeringbell you could say you're forbid-pun

Panda

@U11-Forward Hi! Yep, but to be fair, most hats are by luck.

U11-Forward

@Panda Yee

Tinkeringbell

@motosubatsu Ouch XD

user435118

1:07 PM

@YaakovEllis For Cruse Of Oil is it vote in anyway on a post on December 18th?

U11-Forward

@Panda What does a first time user mean?

user435118

@U11-Forward Someone with the new contributor tag?

Panda

@U11-Forward A user’s first answer.

U11-Forward

@Panda ok

Ael

1:25 PM

@YaakovEllis Can you confirm that Disciple is "follow eight posts"?

U11-Forward

Bye i am getting off my PC

user435118

@Ael Seems right to me.

user435118

I just followed 8 posts and got it.

Derpy

@YaakovEllis meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357976/…

404 tuned? Stay 404?

Luuklag

Hmm I bet that messes up awarding hats as well

Derpy

1:39 PM

@Luuklag if you try with other random words, it gives you a "correct" not found page instead of just 404.

Luuklag

ah okay, then awarding hats should be fine

Derpy

"animal" urls from last year have all been replaced with troll videos.

an there is a single url that gives the "stay tuned" message I was speaking of before.

but this one, seems more of a bug/refuse

Yet I am pretty ready to bet that Yaakov will reply "Stay Tuned..."

Luuklag

I think I saw that URL before somewhere @Derpy

@Xnero I follow 10 posts now, 7 Q's 3 A's not awarded yet

Now followed an 8th question, lets see what happens

Ael

@Derpy Can I have a link? I'm curious :D

Luuklag

@YaakovEllis can you confirm that the Desciple hat is for following 8 Questions?

double-beep

1:53 PM

@Luuklag I followed 7 answers and 1 question and got it

Derpy

https://winterbash2020.stackexchange.com/chicken
https://winterbash2020.stackexchange.com/pig
And so on...

Luuklag

@double-beep Hmm curious

user435118

@Luuklag Maybe a delay in awarding?

double-beep

perhaps 8 posts where at least one is a question and at least one is an answer?

Ael

@Luuklag Yeah, the type of post doesn't matter. I only followed 2 questions

Luuklag

1:54 PM

Hmm curious, then there must've been a delay indeed

Ael

@Derpy Thanks :D

user435118

@double-beep Nope as all the posts I followed were questions.

Luuklag

Yeah then it definetly is posts

Derpy

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Q: The Lord of the Hats: The Return of the Chicken 🐔

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and this line

> 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...

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