Winter Bash 2020

But.. I'm not convinced. Just checked out some prolific voters and they don't seem to have it. I accounted for users that haven't been active today UTC.

Dharman

Yeah, actually I have been watching Netflix for 3 hours so the only thing I did it the automatic stuff

If that is a trigger then it would either have to be flagging or editing on the 21st Dec

Scratte

it would be a number of flags or edits?

Dharman

probably not

Scratte

@U11-Forward How much have you flagged or edited?

Dharman

1:41 AM

I rule out flagging actually

U11-Forward

@Scratte 7 flags

Scratte

@U11-Forward One today?

Usually these date things are UTC +/- 12 hours though. And there is one already for the 21st. The sun/moon.

U11-Forward

@Scratte Last flag 20 hours ago, I don't think it's about flagging

Dharman

Then how come a bunch of users just got that hat?

U11-Forward

@Dharman Don't know!

Dharman

1:44 AM

Maybe it was about doing a number of things on a Sunday

U11-Forward

@Dharman Possible

Scratte

That could be. I didn't do anything as I was away almost all day.

U11-Forward

I answer 1 question and my answer got upvoted right before I got that hat

Scratte

Except for 1 vote and some chatting. And no hat for me.

It's an awesome looking hat :)

U11-Forward

@Scratte Yup!

Vickel

1:48 AM

@Dharman something to do with 11? carnival sometimes starts on November 11 at 11h11

Scratte

I plan to steal one and make it my permanent avatar. Not necessarily one that I earned.. :)

Vickel

@Scratte I miss your earings and the tie: ?!?

U11-Forward

@Scratte Haha lol

Scratte

@Vickel Then I'll have to consider bringing them back! :) It's just that they got squished under the hat, and only the dots are shown at the moment. They're still there :)

Vickel

Elisa Doolots trigger last year seemed to be "Earn 2020 rep across the network, excluding association bonus. Hat is awarded on sites where you earn 200+ rep."

@Scratte I think it is a MUST !

Scratte

1:53 AM

@Vickel When is it suppose to be awarded?

Vickel

@Scratte well, it's listed...

Scratte

It could be awarded only at at the end of the year though.. but I see your point. Maybe someone earned it.

Vickel

@Scratte this is hilarious, how comes I didn't realize?

@Scratte check here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357915/…

U11-Forward

0

Q: Hat Dash "High Score" on the top left corner always shows last round's score not highest score - winter bash

I play Hat Dash sometimes, and I always see on the top left corner that it shows that my highest score is always the score I got last round: But as you can see, my best score is not 48, it's 1447, as you can see in the bottom. I suspect this is a bug. We should either change the number to the be...

Scratte

@Vickel Yes. I see. Someone added the name of the hat. They did not earn it. Then someone with the username @U11-Forward added the image. Maybe we should ask that user where that image was found? :)

Vickel

1:58 AM

@U11-Forward you spent nearl one hour playing that?

U11-Forward

@Vickel Nah when there are no questions to answer I do that sometimes

Vickel

@Scratte he's here right now

Scratte

I know :D

@U11-Forward How did you come upon the image of the "Eliza Doolots" hat?

Vickel

@U11-Forward please tell us about >Eliza Doolittle?

bad_coder

Any clue on how the "Carnival" hat is awarded?

U11-Forward

2:00 AM

@Scratte Took it from last year

Vickel

@U11-Forward but someone got it?

U11-Forward

@Vickel GMB yeah

Scratte

@U11-Forward Ahh.. but the year before that, it looked different. So did the Milliners hat. I take that back.. I see it on the profile :)

Vickel

@U11-Forward ohhhh... I see

doolittle/lot and carnaval... lots of work to do the next couple of days, hope you are self-employed and your clients on holidays :)

bad_coder

@U11-Forward mmm, I closed a ton of posts, wrote lots of comments, had 4 upvotes - 3 of which on old answers (with and without accepted answers)...And that was about it.

Toby Mak

2:06 AM

@Vickel Or you know, just be a student.

Vickel

@TobyMak which means you are on holidays, pretty much until the 4th of January :)

Scratte

@TobyMak Then you can get hats on Stack and fails your exam :D

Vickel

`^and can+t go anywhere

Toby Mak

@Scratte Yep, I most probably will.

Vickel

@TobyMak don't worry, employers will always ask you for your WB hat count 1st

Toby Mak

2:08 AM

haha

Catija

@Vickel The character from the film?

Vickel

@Catija yeah, that was a Mr. Doolittle, I always mix them up

Catija

Ms.

Eliza is female.

Vickel

@Catija and a Doolots

Catija

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Doolittle

@Vickel well, that's just the amusing pun I came up with several years ago.

Still couldn't get the design to look like the actual hat, though. :(

bad_coder

2:14 AM

@Catija so today I learned about 2 Doolittle's and 1 unicorn :) - how was I not aware?

Catija

Eliza and Dr. ?

Not sure about the unicorn?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Dolittle

Vickel

@Catija and there is a Mary Poppins and friends, who used pretty much the same kind of hats

^en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins_(film)

U11-Forward

Bye I am off for two days

I won't do anything today, and tomorrow going for a trip

I will come back the day after tomorrow

Maybe I will chat during these days

Scratte

@U11-Forward But.. what if you get behind on hats?!? :D

U11-Forward

But I will be not answering questions

@Scratte Yeah prolly

I wil get it back next time :-)

Bye!

Scratte

2:21 AM

Does the meta post get updated when the Winter Bash is over? If there are some hats we didn't figure out?

MrFlick

Does Carnival have to do with lasting 5 days like the pre-Easter festival? Is it maybe logging into the site for 5 days in a row during bash?

Scratte

I've been logged in every day since I created my account, and I do not have the hat.

That's about 300 days give or take.

Vickel

@Scratte there is a Meta post somewhere which says NO, because "they" won't spoil un-triggered hats and will keep them for another occasion

Scratte

But perhaps the Carnival is about having profiles on X different sites.

bad_coder

@Catija Ok, recount. The UK singer, the flower girl character you shared, the book character you shared, (plus Eddy Murphy I knew about), and finally Doolots Vickel shared :)

Scratte

2:24 AM

@Vickel Hmm.. that's hmm.. I have not figured out the trigger for Balilaika.

MrFlick

@Scra But it's weird they only started appearing today. It must be time locked somehow.

Vickel

@Scratte I'm playing it on my avatar, but I have no idea

^ it very friendly like showed up

Scratte

@MrFlick Yes, I think so.. (tab-completion mis-hap?) You know you can click on the arrow on the right side of the message to reply directly to another message, right? :)

MrFlick

@Scratte Yes. tab completion problem. Didn't know about clicking (mostly just stuck to keyboard) Learn something new every day. Maybe it's get up votes 5 days in a row?

Scratte

@MrFlick It's not "Get upvotes 5 days in a row". I have it. I didn't get those.

Vickel

2:28 AM

but what has Carnival to do with 5? if its's number related it is11

Scratte

But I need to sleep :) You can post ideas, I'll look at then in the morning :)

Vickel

as in central Europe it starts at 11 of November at 11h11

@Scratte see you a t 6am

bad_coder

@Vickel has someone figured out why there's a hat for the 21st of December?

MrFlick

@Vickel Like the Carnival in Brazil. A festival before the religious holiday of lent in spring (admittedly not very winter-like, but the decorations look like that vibe)

Vickel

@bad_coder solstice

bad_coder

2:31 AM

@Vickel duhhh

Vickel

@bad_coder it a pretty traditional hat, e.g 2016: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/288271/…

bad_coder

@Vickel I haven't been around long enough, those 2016 hats had pop-culture themes.

Vickel

@bad_coder it changes every year

MrFlick

Or maybe wear a hat for 5 days, and there's just a delay based on when you first logged in during bash? Otherwise not sure how I got it. Haven't been doing that much on the site. Mostly comments and flagging. My old questions bring in a slow stream of upvotes each day. Not many new answers for me.

Vickel

@MrFlick maybe it is a really easy hat, since you were not that active

still the trigger unknown

bad_coder

2:37 AM

@MrFlick Might be, I wore the same hat straight since WB started...

Vickel

@bad_coder I changed hats several times

Panda

It appears to me that it could be “edit for 6 consecutive days”.

Not sure about the consecutive part.

bad_coder

@Panda Check I satisfy that condition, we'd need someone with the hat that didn't edit...

Vickel

@Panda but what would that have to do with Carnival?

bad_coder

@Vickel yes, masquerade theme that's smart :)

Panda

2:40 AM

@bad_coder Yep, but it looks like all of them edited posts by others everyday since the start of WB.

@Vickel That is interesting, no idea!

bad_coder

@Panda mmm, Carnival could be language specific. Like posting in a Portuguese, or German or Italian site...Something like that...

Vickel

@Panda "masquerade" might be the clue

bad_coder

@Panda how do you check who won the hats?

Vickel

@bad_coder on the leaderboard

Panda

@bad_coder Um only manually by looking through the leaderboard.

kylejrp

2:42 AM

It's also spelled "Carnaval" which is maybe a clue, I think that's a French spelling

Vickel

^winterbash2020.stackexchange.com/leaderboard/network

Panda

@Vickel Sorry, I don’t quite get what you meant?

Vickel

@Panda like masking up something? or wearing a mask or change a mask (but that I've done before)

Panda

Oh, but it probably needs to be something done for 6 days since the hat just appeared.

Vickel

@Panda there was actually a trigger some years before, where you got to do stuff 5 or 6 days during WB

bad_coder

2:51 AM

@Panda ok, I was missing the welcome hat (and apparently so was someone else). A dubious question by a 1 rep just got +2 in under a minute :)

Panda

@Vickel Yea, makes sense.

@bad_coder Nice! :)

U11-Forward

Hello guys, I am here! On my mobile.

Vickel

@Panda but it needs to be a change, a "masquarade" like here:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masquerade

waffles

I need to go to sleep :)

bad_coder

@U11-Forward good to see you, I wasn't the same without your presence :D

@Vickel WAIT WAIT, I think I GOT IT!!!

Vickel

@bad_coder yeah? how?

bad_coder

2:57 AM

@Vickel ok, the Carnival hat is won by changing hats on different sites and wearing hats on sites were that hat wasn't awarded :D

Vickel

@bad_coder "tell me more, tell me more" (from the movie Grease, with John Travolta and Olivia Newton Jones)

U11-Forward

@bad_coder Haha thanks man.

@bad_coder Possible.

bad_coder

@Vickel ok, I won hats on some sites and wanted to wear them on other sites. So I changed site, to change my hat, and soon afterwards unexpectedly the Carnival hat hit...At least that's my impression.

Vickel

@bad_coder I just changed hats on SE, only, didn't trigger. At which site was your hat awarded?

bad_coder

@Vickel mmm, I think I changed on SO, SE, and maybe 2 more sites...(and the hats were won on only some of the sites.)

Vickel

3:02 AM

@bad_coder sounds promising... and goes well wit the theme.

U11-Forward

If Carnaval hat is by the trigger you said @bad_coder, I was lucky that I always changed my hat, I knew there would be a hat with the trigger of something like that.

Vickel

@U11-Forward did you get the hat?

ok I see you did

6 hats to catch up :) with you

@bad_coder it's most likely that you have to change your hats x-days (24h) times during WB

U11-Forward

@Vickel yes I did

bad_coder

@Vickel Didn't really change it much except to try it...Ohh, I also reverted to 1 hat after a short while.

Vickel

@bad_coder hmmm...

bad_coder

3:13 AM

@U11-Forward those "high-rep" hats are insane...You'd need lots of expertise and post on busy-tags with lots of up voters...

ok, 2nd page of the leader board without really trying. That was nice :) coincidence worked out this time.

U11-Forward

@bad_coder Yeah I think I can get Eliza Doolots hat

bad_coder

@U11-Forward that hat actually exists :O

U11-Forward

@bad_coder Yes it does GMB has it

Vickel

so I have to go, its too late, bye o/

bad_coder

3:29 AM

\o makes 2 of us, good night everyone.

Eran

6:13 AM

Hi

U11-Forward

Hello guys I am on my phone now

Eran

@U11-Forward I see you got the Carnival hat. Any theories? Is it about wearing a new hat every day?

Peter Haddad

6:38 AM

hi

U11-Forward

7:08 AM

@Eran Yeah prolly

MrFlick

I still think Carnival is a 5 day party. I'm not sure I've changed my hat each day, but I've worn a hard each day. So maybe just wear a hat for 5 consecutive days. I know i've switched so I don't think it has to be the same hat. Or maybe it has to be a secret hat.

Ael

@MrFlick I didn't change my hat and now I'm regretting it. I want this beautiful Carnaval mask!

double-beep

8:19 AM

stackoverflow.com/users/4909087/cs95 another user who earned the carnaval hat

Rob

I noticed that CS95 ... made the entry on the secret hat list, so there's someone else to ask. I have different hats on different sites (where not earned), and I've changed my hats occasionally (but not 5 in a row). Cat said that the 5 in a row wasn't happening this year ... I think that the Carnival trigger is still undiscovered.

Ninja'd: I see dub typed that while I was grabbing the link and composing my message.

Peter Haddad

9:08 AM

it seems carnaval hat has nothing to do with rep

I just got awarded the 'Carnaval' hat after an edit of mine was approved (pretty much directly) that I made to a question that my answer to had been accepted before. Not sure which parts are relevant for getting the hat though... — buddemat 18 mins ago

nevermind got confused with Eliza Doolots hat :p

nobody

I notice we don't have the triggers for Give a Leg Up, Disciple and Cruse of Oil in the hat post. Didn't we already figure those ones out yet?

Ankit Sharma

For Samovar we need to answer a new question or old one also work?

Ael

@nobody Yes

Ankit Sharma

9:49 AM

Edward is for 5 days back to back or 5 individual day within winterbash????

Peter Haddad

10:03 AM

Carnaval hat you get it by editing your own answer that is marked as correct

I just got it by doing that

Eran

@PeterHaddad I'll try that.

Panda

Hi

Eran

@Panda Hi

Panda

7 hours ago, by Panda

It appears to me that it could be “edit for 6 consecutive days”.

Eran

@Panda that's also possible

Panda

10:09 AM

My theory for Carnival^, it appears true for all the users I’ve seen who has got the hat.

Apparently I missed editing on 1 day on Meta.SE since the start of WB :/

DavidPostill

@PeterHaddad Confirmed @Catija can you confirm.

Eran

I only have edits on 4 days, and not consecutive. I'll do more edits in the following days

Panda

@Eran Same here

Peter Haddad

@DavidPostill did you edit an answer not written in winter bash?

Panda

@AnkitSharma It’s 5 individual days

Dec 17 at 16:03, by Yaakov Ellis

@Panda five separate days. Does not have to be consecutive

DavidPostill

10:24 AM

@PeterHaddad No. It was an edit to question that had been answered by me and accepted. all actions within winter bash.

Ael

10:41 AM

I just earn Balalaika on MSE and I have no idea why. I just know it's not about moderating (flags or reviews) and not about posting a question

Ankit Sharma

10:55 AM

@Panda good then I need 3 more days only

@PeterHaddad that's a weird trigger let me try

@DavidPostill editing question after your answer accepted ? and question should be yours?

buddemat

I also got the Carnaval hat by editing an answer of mine that was accepted. All within Winter Bash. However, I may also have made edits every day during Winter Bash, so maybe there is an additional "consecutive days" component to it

nobody

@PeterHaddad Edited an accepted answer of mine that was from before winter bash fifteen minutes ago and I haven't received the hat yet

Panda

11:11 AM

Anyone can disprove this theory for Carnaval?

9 hours ago, by Panda

It appears to me that it could be “edit for 6 consecutive days”.

DavidPostill

@AnkitSharma No the answer was mine.

nobody

@Panda This user doesn't have it. They have edits everyday since the start of WB

Eran

11:29 AM

@nobody perhaps that user disabled hats. I don't see any hats in that profile.

Panda

@nobody Good find.

@Eran I think you can see hats only on a profile where you have an account.

Eran

@nobody oh, I had to join the community to see them.

Panda

That’s odd, most users who has got the hat have edited consecutively since the start of WB.

Eran

Well, perhaps not all edits count - it could be edits of questions only, or answers only , or your own posts only, or old posts only, etc...

Panda

Possibly, it seems that editing own posts apparently counts. Saw a user did that earlier

Maybe tag edits don’t count. That user’s only edit today was a tag edit.

nobody

11:36 AM

@Panda Well lets wait and see... The user is a mod so he'll prolly come and edit something before the day's over. Unless someone can find another counterexample.

Panda

@nobody Yep!

Scratte

@Eran You don't have to join the community to see it. If they have a profile on your community, you can just look at them there, here's the Stack Overflow profile

Eran

11:52 AM

@Scratte yes, that makes sense. thanks

bad_coder

12:14 PM

@buddemat I can disprove this, I didn't edit any of my answers after they were accepted. (But I got the Carnival hat.)

bad_coder

12:27 PM

@Panda has the Eliza Doolittle hat been figured out? Maybe this is an important hint?

buddemat

@bad_coder: good to know, thanks. I actually also edited the question to which my answer was accepted as well. So that my be a factor. Or it is all coincidence that it happened under these circumstances for me and it is just the edits in a row...

bad_coder

@buddemat yes I edited several Q's each day, and I also answered with several revisions to my own answer. But I didn't change any of my answers after it had been accepted.

Panda

@bad_coder I can't find many users getting it yet so I can't definitely prove it. But it should have the same trigger as the past two years so it's probably "Earn 2021 rep across the network, excluding association bonus.".

bad_coder

@Panda 2012 rep across the network :O .... (That takes me about 6 months.)

Scratte

@Panda No. I earned 2021 reputation on Stack Overflow. And I didn't get it.

bad_coder

12:32 PM

@Scratte I think they mean 2021 rep since WB started... :O

Eran

I first saw Doolots hat this year for a user that had 2035 on SO since the start of winter bash.

Panda

@bad_coder oh haha but at least they made it 2021 across the network and not just 1 site

Scratte

@bad_coder We're not even 10 days into the Winter Bash. With the reputation cap that would mean a lot of reputation every day :O

@Panda I have 20 reputation points on another site.. (discounting my association bonus, that leaves 50 reputation, but I've downvoted at least 50 Answers which one cannot see, so it should be enough for the 2021 total earned reputation.) According to the yearly reputation leaderboard is says 2,171 "year reputation".

Panda

@Eran Seems like another user on SO has it too now (2291 rep), stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff?tab=profile

bad_coder

@Scratte dang, I managed to ask 1 question this month that isn't a duplicate, is unprecedented, is really smart, had an expert answer ....And yesterday 2 revenge DV's landed on it :/ What's worse, seems a clear case of sock puppetry or collusion (like 2 revenge DV's on the same Q, right...)

Panda

12:38 PM

@Scratte oh it's 2021 rep earned during WB started (since Dec 16)

Scratte

@Panda Ahh.. well, then I'll have to look at it on other profiles then :)

@bad_coder Unless it's two users doing their homework, finding your post and realizing that's not what they needed. Being frustrated with the impending fail, they took it out on your post..

Panda

@Scratte You could try joining more sites ;)

Scratte

@Panda Yes, but no. One site is fine for me.. :) I've even hidden the other ones. It's too time consuming.

I'd delete them. Only I'd rather not disassociate from my own post and my votes would be reverted.

Panda

Good point

bad_coder

@Scratte naahh, these type of revenge DV's normally repeat...Meaning the same group or sock puppet will vote tomorrow and the day after that, just enough to keep under the serial DV detection (btw one user posted having had a whopping -120 DV targeted by the same user without system reversal...)

Scratte

12:45 PM

@bad_coder That should probably go into a custom flag, no? That looks like 60 downvotes :O

bad_coder

@Scratte no that was (wait a minute) the poster had -1200 rep (that's like 600 DV's without system reversal or flags being raised?!)

@Scratte eventually the downvoter account was deleted and the sudden reversal in rep hit. (So that user tried to complain, reported the case, and took so many DV's on the that post it was burried in no time...I feel lucky to have seen it.)

Scratte

That's.. persistent voting. Seems like someone should get a more constructive hobby.

nobody

So... someone had 600 rep to waste? That would be two-three month's work for me. Unless you earn rep faster on SO than other sites

bad_coder

@nobody No, that wasn't quite it. The poster that took the DV's had lots of Q's (in the hundreds). So lots of the revenge DV's were on Q's (but also answers).

nobody

Oh I see. Downvotes on questions should cost rep too.

bad_coder

12:58 PM

@Scratte But what astonished me was this: It was the only example of a post that explained there's basically no system detection of serial DV's if they're not on the same day.

@nobody (And this was shocking: The guy that posted complaining, took -15 on that post alone in a few minutes...The time it took my brain to process the information, the post was already gone and deleted...)

nobody

Serial downvoting on the post too? Or did the community think it was rude to point out flaws in the system?

Tinkeringbell

@bad_coder There are some tools for moderators and community managers to see if there is targetted voting like that happening, in which case a moderator flag is your best option. It would be very hard to make a system that looks at more than 1 day....

At this moment, the system is already incapable of recognizing legitimate downvotes from targetted ones: We had a user post a string of 14 'witty oneliners' on IPS once, and I downvoted + delete voted all of them ... the next morning, 11 of my votes were 'reversed' because they were 'serial'.

6

bad_coder

@nobody I mean, the matter of fact was so bad - the regulars were probably appalled to see facts spelled out, clearly, bluntly, to the point.

bad_coder

1:15 PM

@Tinkeringbell what can I say? Well, the essence is perhaps: I needed to say it. Reading that post was shocking, and seeing it "peer suppressed" added aggravation to injustice (if that's a reasonable way put things.)

@Tinkeringbell There was 1 single guy that gave that post an up vote: me. And by voting I thought: I just put myself at odds with the community.

Tinkeringbell

@bad_coder I haven't seen the exact post, so it's hard to talk about that specific case. I do know there's similar ones on MSE from time to time where the voting is more because the post is very unconstructive, the accusations wild and unfounded, and the poster rude.

nobody

@bad_coder I'm not sure about this case but its possible that the person's question were actually of poor quality and he just believed he was the victim of serial DVs

bad_coder

@Tinkeringbell that was an MSE post, by a mod on another site. I think it was mister Dalencourt (?) French Canadian maybe (regular contributor on travel.) - Let me assure you, the post in question was the definition of gentlemanly.

Tinkeringbell

Well if you can find a link we can discuss further, and I might be able to point out evidence to the contrary... right now there's not much that I can do except say that this is how things usually go.

If you mean this user there's nothing on the account that's deleted that matches your criteria, the closed I can get to anything about serial voting and Travel is meta.stackexchange.com/q/355329/369802 ... which isn't deleted and is just a negatively received feature request.

U11-Forward

1:41 PM

Hello guys I am here now for 20 minutes!

Scratte

1:57 PM

@U11-Forward Everyone drops whatever they were doing ;)

U11-Forward

@Scratte Lol :-)

buddemat

I have a question regarding the Cordovan hat (I also posted it as a question here: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/403908/…): I commented a post that was incorrectly tagged and the OP reacted and removed the wrong tag. I learned that this should earn me the Cordovan hat. As I directly noticed the edit, I deleted my then obsolete comment to "clean up". I have not gotten the hat (yet?). Was I maybe too fast to delete my comment?

Catija

@DavidPostill That's not the trigger, no.

U11-Forward

2:21 PM

Bye I am off of my PC

nobody

@U11-Forward That wasn't exactly 20 mins

Scratte

2:37 PM

@buddemat Not sure edits to tags only will do it. I'd think it needs edits to the body of the Question.

buddemat

2:58 PM

@Scratte Thanks, that could also be it. Did not know these two types of editing were distinguished. Can anyone confirm?

Scratte

They're distinguished for edits that make a closed post go into the re-open queues. I don't even think edits to titles makes them do that. Which is a good thing, as posts usually need edits to the body to make them OK.

Ael

3:43 PM

@buddemat I can't confirm for this year hats but on the two years before, there was indeed a distinction between the type of edit (which makes me very sad since tag edit is my favorite type of edit ^^')

Scratte

4:25 PM

@IanCampbell Are you working on your Samovar?

Ian Campbell

I've been trying to think of a good question. As you can see from my history, question asking is not my strong suit.

Scratte

Fair enough. Go do an edit to a Question for some days in a row then :)

Ian Campbell

The good thing about Samovar is that you can get TickTok or whatever for the same one

Scratte

I forgot what the difference between them is.

Ian Campbell

TikTop is answer within 5 minutes, it can be a self answer.

Scratte

4:29 PM

Yes :) Someone expressed regret that it can be awarded by a self-Answer :)

Ian Campbell

Hopefully that person won't get around to fixing it before I can come up with a question.

If you believe my revision history, tomorrow will be 8 days

Scratte

Of editing? Not just title and tag edits?

Ian Campbell

Yes

Scratte

Perhaps we've not found the trigger for the Carnival then.

But Dharman got it, so perhaps it needs to be Answers.

Ian Campbell

Might be #UTC problems, I didn't look that carefully

Scratte

4:34 PM

I admit I didn't do extensive heuristic research on the Carnival hat. I'm not an editor..

Ian Campbell

Ah yes, my only edit on the 18th was my answer, back to the drawing board.

Scratte

You'll just need to edit another few days, no? :) If "Edit Questions 5 (or 6) consecutive days" is the trigger.

^ Answers.. silly me.

buddemat

4:50 PM

@Ael @Yaakov Ellis could you maybe clear up wheter it's indeed the edit type? Thank you!

Scratte

5:01 PM

I'm not sure that's how it works. We are suppose to figure out the triggers.

nobody

5:29 PM

@Panda The user just came 8 mins ago and edited a post and got the Carnaval hat

they apparently didn't do anything else so I believe that theory is confirmed

@YaakovEllis Can you confirm that the Carnaval hat is for “edit for 6 consecutive days” (excluding tag edits)?

Ael

@nobody The edit might not need to be consecutive though (I'm hopeing they don't ^^)

nobody

@Ael Good point. I just copied the theory that was presented by others before me.

Soleil - Mathieu Prévot

5:49 PM

@Scratte Got carnival too. I think it's about wearing and changing hat for x consecutive days. I wore the same for all SE sites, wore one everyday, but did not change everyday.

Yaakov Ellis

@nobody confirmed

Scratte

@YaakovEllis Are edits to one's own posts also included? That seems to not work.

Rob

6:12 PM

@Panda For Glorfindel it was only lots of edits for a couple of days. No other recent activity.

Looks like he missed a day, two days ago.

double-beep

6:49 PM

winterbash2020.stackexchange.com/hat-dash...

nobody

@double-beep Was that a rick-rolling link earlier too, or did it change recently?

double-beep

const removeGame = function () {
    $("body").empty();
    $("<h1>You have been caught cheating and your scores are now banned from the leaderboard</h1><h3><a href='/hat-dash'>See here for more info<a/></h3>").appendTo("body");
}

you get this link when you are caught cheating

Tinkeringbell

There must be some way to disable that :P

Scratte

7:07 PM

Wait.. you're not just hacking the game now? You're hacking the blocker you get for hacking the game? :D

nobody

/hat-dash/ban-me-please-because-i-cheated ???

anybody feel like visiting this one?

Wait that's a Page Not Found

Why is it in the code?

double-beep

@nobody it's POST, not GET

nobody

Oh I see

So... If I block all requests to that page, I'm allowed to cheat?

double-beep

@nobody unless an employee manually bans you

Scratte

Question: If a user is suspended during Winter Bash for cheating on the unicorn game, do they get to wear the hats after Winter Bash is over? :P

nobody

7:17 PM

@Scratte Why would they?

Scratte

It was a joke.. I need to work on my jokes.

nobody

Uhh... or I need to work on my sense of humor? :)

Rob

7:41 PM

The 5 second explanation would be rude, but it's quick.

buddemat

8:03 PM

@Scratte I'll rephrase: @YaakovEllis can you please confirm that tag-only edits do not count for the Cordovan hat? I.e. that it gets awarded if an edit occurs within one day of a comment that is not a tag-only edit?

Yaakov Ellis

8:33 PM

@nobody did you Get or post?

@nobody only one way to find out

@buddemat true, false

Ael

@buddemat Isn't it one hour?

dbc

9:02 PM

The description of the "Edward" hat states, Ask a positively-received question on five different days (get the Curious badge). Does that mean we need to ask 5 well-received questions during the winter bash itself, or do we just need to earn the Curious badge during the bash?

DavidPostill

And what happens if you already have the curious badge?

Catija

It's the same trigger as Curious but during WB.

Having Curious won't prevent getting it.

DavidPostill

@Catija Thanks

Rob

10:17 PM

@Tinkeringbell For reference: Conversation about unfair SVR in The Tavern.

buddemat

11:15 PM

@AJ I read here (meta.stackexchange.com/a/358179/906916) that Cruse of Oil was awarded for participation on December 18 (anywhere in the world). Can you please confirm @YaakovEllis ?

U11-Forward

11:51 PM

@nobody More like 40...

Anyway hi guys

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