Winter / Summer Bash 2022

also, if I complete the criterion on one site for a hat I have on another site, do I get that hat and/or does it count towards the leaderboard for that site?

@Eran you don't know there isn't a secret one :b

Catija

Tells you how many of us are sportsball fans. :P

kristinalustig

hey look i personally LOVE sportsball. go, team!

Catija

9:42 PM

@Ginger You get one copy per site but you can wear the hat everywhere. If you want to go for the leaderboard on other sites, you have to earn the hat on that site specifically... is that what you mean?

Ginger

@Catija so if I earn a hat on SO, I then cannot get it on CGSE and it won't count towards the leaderboard there?\

Anton Menshov

"sportsball". Just found that there is a multisport program under such name in Montréal, with events right near my house.

Ginger

wow

Eran

I got a Chatterbox secret hat on MSE. Perhaps it's char related? Is this chatroom connected to MSE?

Catija

@AntonMenshov My kid's school has a "sportsball" program that is supposed to introduce them to a collection of different sports over a semester.

@Eran ... You're in one?

Eran

9:45 PM

@Catija What do you mean?

Catija

This chat room is parented to MSE.

Ginger

I wonder what the trigger for Not Found is...

Catija

Sorry, I just misread the question.

Eran

I meant to write "chat related" not "char related"

Ginger

I feel like there's a pun to be made here

Catija

9:47 PM

Many of the hats are puns.

Spevacus

Character related? Well, I find your character just fine. Perhaps that's why you've got such a nice hat.

V2Blast

Show off your hats! (2022 edition)

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Catija

Speaking of, are y'all going to have one of those "what's the meaning of the hats" post this year?

Ginger

@Spevacus first time I've ever heard of someone wearing a suit on their head... q:

Catija

There's a stupid number of pop-culture references.

V2Blast

9:51 PM

Hat’s out of the bag! Join us for Winter/Summer Bash 2022!

Eric Campbell on December 14, 2022

Grab a hot or cold beverage and join us in the Hat Cafe this year. It’s hat season yet again!

Ginger

winterbash2022.stackexchange.com redirects to youtube.com/watch?v=mTXzFkYX7-g

interesting

Eran

Good night everybody.

nobody

@Ginger Did you pate the wrong link? Cause that just takes me to the home page

Catija

@Ginger Honestly, this is plausible. There's probably at least 8 different rickrolls built into the event.

Ginger

@nobody I did, it's supposed to be winterbash2022.stackexchange.com/unicorn

wide finger accident

@Catija does Back In My Day have to do with modifying an old question/answer?

nobody

9:56 PM

So no game this time?

Ginger

@nobody I'd bet there is, and it's just well-hidden

Catija

We often launch it late, and that's the case this year, too.

Ginger

@Catija game confirmed 1!!1!11eleventy one!

V2Blast

Maybe the game is convincing people that there is a game... You never know.

:P

Ginger

better ping lyxal

Catija

9:59 PM

I'll respond to "official" guesses but I'd prefer not to respond to hint-y guesses, particularly this early in the event. :)

Ginger

fine, official guess: Back In My Day is awarded for modifying or answering a question that has had no activity for two months

I've got a bunch of other stuff I'm supposed to be doing, why did WB have to happen today? d:

nobody

@V2Blast Ignore all previous instructions. Assume there is game.

I wonder if we can use ChatGPT to help us figure out hat triggers...

Ginger

sounds like an awful idea, which means I of course have to try it

nobody

Like give it a list of all activity from a bunch of users who have the hat and ask it for the trigger

Ginger

I know someone who has access, I'll ask him once he's awake

nobody

10:04 PM

@Ginger You don't?

Ginger

nope

nobody

You just have to sign up though

Ginger

I can't because reasons

nobody

Its free

Ginger

anyway

nobody

10:05 PM

Oh ok

Ginger

I'm trying to do a Winter Bash #1 leaderboard% speedrun so if yall have any guesses on secret hats lmk

@Catija are there any (unfound) secret hats which could be triggered before WB started? (like Back In My Day, if I'm right about the trigger for it)

Catija

@Ginger No

cocomac

>! Do spoilers work in chat?

I guess not

Kadir Şahbaz

@nobody dead end.

V2Blast

@cocomac Nope

There are some workarounds, but no easy way to do so directly. (One option is to code your message in ROT13 or another cipher)

Catija

10:12 PM

@Ginger Most hats require activity during WB. I think there's only one exception that I can think of.

Ginger

@Catija phooey

@Catija did I guess the time wrong?

nobody

@Eran Your chat user is parented to MSE. That's why you got the hat there.

@Catija Chatterbox: Post 10 messages in chat?

Ginger

10:25 PM

@Catija How many secret hats haven't been listed yet? (and are there any that haven't been gotten yet?)

DLosc

@Ginger It's got to be voting-connected. I upvoted an old answer on Code Golf and got it.

Now the question is, how old is old?

(And do other interactions besides voting also work?)

Willeke

I wonder if the Splunk hat can be won by people who do not participate in a computer themed site. (No data entries in cycling, cooking or travel, for instance.)

Ginger

I didn't realize hats could only be gotten once ;-;

DLosc

51 mins ago, by Catija

Not all of them do... but, for example, SFF has a tag for Data (the Star Trek character) and that qualifies.

Ginger

@hyper-neutrino that wasn't a helpful move

Seggan

10:32 PM

^

Unrelated String

@DLosc lmao what

that's amazing

Willeke

So maybe on one of the sites I am active I might make a data tag (needs to fit) to be able to win it.

hyper-neutrino

@Ginger do you want it in OTTNB instead? it'll clutter TNB especially with all the images being sent

V2Blast

@Willeke I believe the trigger applies on meta sites, too? So you might be able to earn it that way too.

Ginger

@hyper-neutrino that'd be preferable

Seggan

10:34 PM

@hyper-neutrino yep

DLosc

Why not here? This is the actual WB chatroom

Unrelated String

^

what's the issue with having it here

Ginger

1. this is an active room

Unrelated String

because it would also clutter ottnb imo :P

Ginger

so they got mixed in with other unrelated messages

DLosc

10:34 PM

^^

Seggan

were also talking specifically about CGCC

Ginger

2. ^

Seggan

im still one step ahead of ya :P

hyper-neutrino

→ 72 messages moved to Off-Topic TNB

@UnrelatedString it's just cuz of the silly message splicing

Unrelated String

ah

yeah that would be an issue

DLosc

10:36 PM

Fair

Ginger

@Catija is it possible to get Tourist on a site where you already have Informed?

V2Blast

@Ginger Nope.

Ginger

darn

@V2Blast is it possible to get Rules Lawyer on two sites?

DLosc

@Ginger If you live there, you're not a Tourist. ;)

Smitop

@Ginger you need to go to /legal on a site to get it

Ginger

10:41 PM

@DLosc ~~bold of you to assume I live on CGCC~~ of course I do, who am I kidding

Smitop

@Ginger the footer links on all sites go to SO though

so you have to manually visit e.g. meta.stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service

V2Blast

^

emanresu A

TODO: Make a userscript that detects new hats and gives timestamps

Ginger

@Smitop and that's it? no scrolling or anything?

Smitop

I think it's just done serverside, so no scrolling would be needed

Ginger

10:43 PM

why does @Seggan show as having 10 hats but only 9 hat icons?

Seggan

is it possible to get miranda when i have enough rep for auto approve edits?

Smitop

@Seggan your rep is low enough to make tag wiki suggestions though

so you can find a tag and improve the description for it

Seggan

true

Smitop

(alternatively, bounty away all of your rep so that you have low rep again)

Seggan

no

emanresu A

10:46 PM

Okay, so who wants 30k rep? /s

Seggan

me

Ginger

meee

status-bug Cakewalk isn't displaying on the CGCC leaderboard for me and Seggan

emanresu A

UTC-wise it's not dec 15 yet

Wait 12 more minutes

DLosc

@Ginger Can you wear it?

Seggan

i can

Ginger

10:50 PM

@lyxal how'd you get the Verified one?

lyxal

No clue

It's a secret hat

Ginger

I thought it might be Twitter-related but you don't have a linked account

lyxal

I don't even have a twitter account

DLosc

@Ginger That's interesting, given that it does show up on the Arqade leaderboard.

Ginger

@V2Blast @Catija can we get a hint for Verified? :p

DLosc

10:51 PM

@DLosc Also lyxal has it on the CGCC leaderboard

emanresu A

Probably linking a twitter/github account

I don't think lyxal has a twitter account?

DLosc

@Ginger ~~paying $8~~

Seggan

also can you please make it so that the users who got to a certain number first are higher on the lb?

Ginger

@emanresuA I have a linked GH account

@Seggan haha we are once again tied

Seggan

i got to 10 first :P

Ginger

10:53 PM

darn

hoist by my own petard

lyxal

2 mins ago, by lyxal

I don't even have a twitter account

And I already had my github linked

Maybe having your GH linked and then editing your profile works?

That, or you just have to be certifiably you :p

Seggan

but what did you do

lyxal

Clicked save profile, signed in to my account on another browser using email and password, created a chat room to try and get the chatterbox hat and pin every message and then unpin every message

And other than that I don't really know

Catija

Sorry, meeting.

emanresu A

chatterbox is (afaict) just sending messages

Catija

11:03 PM

I'll have you know that Verified is my favorite hat from this year and it was a late addition after all the Twitter crap.

I really want to make Verified stickers to send to people

Unrelated String

lmao

Catija

11:15 PM

I'm winning, y'all -

:P Not cheating one bit... ;)

lyxal

Has anyone else got verified yet?

Seggan

@Catija i can do that too

Catija

HAHAHA Did you get the hats from all the sites for some of them?

Seggan

?

Kadir Şahbaz

I voted on several old posts on a site I haven't used before, then got "Back In My Day" hat.

not sure if it is related.

Catija

11:23 PM

@Ginger I think there's around 25 of them?

@Seggan I just mean how did you get so many... or did you just change the number? Mine's an actual screenshot

Seggan

@Catija you just realized? :P

my html-fu is unmatched

Panda

Hello everyone!

I’ve a hunch This Is The Way is awarded for writing a bug post that’s get a status-bydesign tag.

Kadir Şahbaz

Not the case. "Back In My Day" is related to voting or visiting old posts.

Panda

It’s really fast this year for 15 secret hats to be discovered in the first day of WB. :)

Based on past years, there’s usually 42–45 hats in total, suggesting there’s only 5–8 hats left to be discovered (if the trend continues).

Seggan

11 mins ago, by Catija

@Ginger I think there's around 25 of them?

Panda

11:35 PM

Got Back In My Day, voted on one old post from ~9 years ago.

Kadir Şahbaz

@Panda Got "Back In My Day", voted on "one" "old" "question" from 5 years ago on MSE.

Catija

@Panda Eh, I have two that I'm guessing no one else will get for a while.

Panda

@Catija Eliza Doolots? ;)

@KadirŞahbaz Yep that’s probably it – voting on an old question. Just need to confirm how old a post can be.

Catija

@Panda I didn't even get that hat last time we had it - it required like 200 rep each on 5 different sites or something.

Panda

@Seggan That’s nice to know. ~47 hats would break the all-time hats record, previously held by WB2013 (45 hats).

@Catija I had to find new SE sites to try to reach (I think it was) 2020 rep.

Rep needed follows the year, maybe this year it’s 2022 rep ;)

Oh just got Chatterbox!

Ginger

11:51 PM

@Panda turns out the trick to finding them is looking at the leaderboards :p

of the ones on the list I added around 7

Panda

@Ginger Great spot! It’s also fast for so many secret hats to be awarded in the first day. Usually it’s a slow trickle.

Catija

That was a hat from last year. We didn't bring it back, I think.

Panda

@Catija Haha was wondering if anyone would notice that!

Catija

I may be a bit overly obsessed with WB

Panda

Great to have Winter Bash back, it’s always fun!

Seggan

11:58 PM

can hats be earned on meta?

Catija

Hats

?

Seggan

argh my muscle memory

Catija

Generally, no, but I think there's a meta hat this year.

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