Same reason tags or badges are not instantly awarded. They decided to run those in batch. If you get it fast, you're probably just lucky you did whatever you needed to just prior to the job run.
But very often I land on a profile and the snow icon doesn't appear on the top bar. And no hats with numbers are shown. Reloading doesn't help. Then after 5 minutes, I can reload and then it works fine. But some times clicking on the number hat loads and empty pop-up that's just frozen saying "loading.."
@Anonymous Maybe, but it doesn't seem like they did :)
Since Channukah is a story about an oil lamp that lasted 8 days, and "Cruse" is a very old fashioned term for a pot or jar, it seems like a good guess.
Dunno for sure. But I just noticed I had it today, and not before.
@Ael Someone else cannot edit in clarification :) And the name is Cordovan, which is a dark murky colour.. I expect it could be like a dark murky unclear post.. ?
The Cruse of Oil has to be something that doesn't involve making any sort of post or comment because I didn't do that. Maybe something involving viewing or voting?
How much rep do I need before I can perform actions to unlock Bouncer / Doorman? Are they all unlockable with the 3,000 rep privileges, or is there some actions I can do to unlock the hats earlier?
Why would that cause it to give me that hat? Maybe something about voting on questions with a certain amount of upvotes already? I did upvote the top three upvoted questions.
@kylejrp I believe you can vote on your own questions without the reputation requirement.
@kylejrp I meant that the only way to do that with insufficient reputation would be that a moderator would close your questions and you could vote to reopen them. Maybe it was a mistake to add this hat because it would encourage you to do that.
> Make 3 reviews in the close votes queue that ultimately get handled the way you recommended, and at least one other reviewer took the same action as you.
@Anonymous Nope.. low quality "Not an Answer". It was deleted later on. Other users reported getting it from upvoting a post. It's suppose to be just interacting with a post, though I do not think commenting counts.
Hmm.. Or perhaps it was a low-quality Question. I forgot.
I can try to find out, if you really really must know :)
@Scratte If that were true, I would have gotten it on more sites. Maybe it works the other way too or it is for upvoting highly upvoted posts or downvoting highly downvoted posts.
Yeah. But... doing that kinda leaves y'all with a quick resolution. We're only two days in. There's a fixed number of secret hats. What if you solve them all by Monday because we confirm the solutions are correct?
Question about a non-hidden hat: for Flashlight, do you have to visit any page (even the preferences), a question, a non-question page (such as the homepage) or something else entirely?