@EkadhSingh-ReinstateMonica no. i just had a brain fart and completely misinterpreted what happened. i'm not even going to try to explain it. just move on, nothing to see here.
i don't recognize any of the blue names any more. it sort of feels like going to a bar now that i used to be a regular at back in college, and not knowing the bartenders.
@Slate Do API calls count towards hats? I have a bot that automatically edits old questions with my account every day and don't want to miss out in case there's some trigger :P
@CinCout Not exactly, iirc - this year's requires the answer to have a positive score. But yes, it's one of the few hats this year to make a recurring appearance.
@Wolgwang Like, to the second? I don't know, I don't think the WB interface has a way of doing that. Not sure what the timings are on when hats are awarded.
@Wolgwang Nope. I currently award a bounty everyday on PSE because of an event. So if there's a hat for something like that, I'll let you know :P (probably not)
Can anyone make sense of the Helping hand awarded here :
Indeed! Yes, I'm a relatively senior citizen, so maybe culture has drifted, but I myself would never address someone by their first name if I didn't know them! In "my culture", being "on-a-first-name-basis" means some acquaintance: perhaps extended family, perhaps friendship, perhaps work-related. The only people you'd address by their first name without prior acquaintance would be children. :) — paul garrettyesterday
@Slate I will try for One Burried Penny; Suggesting an edit to a post that was inactive for more than 6 months. (that gets approved), and the question got upvoted to a postive score.
@Slate Another try for One Burried Penny: Suggesting an edit to an answer to a question that was inactive for more than 6 months, and the edit gets approved.
Someone was in here yesterday saying that the hat wouldn't get awarded on FF for Android - but I don't know that we have an easy fix to that - I can't consistently get it in Chrome on my Mac, either. But works great on my iPhone's Mobile Safari.
I clarified Yaakov's message and pinned it so that people wouldn't be confused. :)
I know there're people who don't like the WB, and I can imagine they downvote the bugs because they think something like "they will spend time fixing that..."
But I can't see downvotes on MSE yet, and my question didn't have a downvote yet, so I don't know how problematic is this hehe
@Catija That happened because the question was migrated. When the system adds the discussion tag to ensure all questions migrated to a meta site have a required tag, it doesn't check for synonyms.
I'm almost inclined to make posts on Meta.SE and ask a mod to migrate them to all the localized site metas so that there is at least one post eligible to earn the hat on all site metas, in the meantime when the bug isn't fixed yet
@JasperHabicht No for the same day, mine got two day interval before getting accepted, it's editing a old post, but there is something else
@Catija For One Burried Penny; is it; Suggesting an edit to a post that was inactive for more than 6 months. (that gets approved), but on a question that got atleast 4 reviewer (close or edit) in the question history
@RafaelTavares @Cat, I did eventually get it, after trying (seemingly) the exact same thing several times. Copied a -3 voted question with the word "question" in it a couple of times - which I'm told isn't quite right, but I'm happy with two hats obtained that way.
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