Winter / Summer Bash 2022

starball

00:00

:O nice secret hats catija

nobody

@Catija As in hat for a a meta site, or a hat for a hat? :P

Catija

@nobody Heh. The former.

Nordine Lotfi

00:22

are the number of hats always the same per year? how many are there?

lyxal

how many people have gotten the verified hat?

emanresu A

~~divide SE's monthly revenue by 8~~

lyxal

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A: Show off your hats! (2022 edition)

Lyxal @lyxal · 1 hr ago I swear I didn't pay $8 for this hat #verified #twitter-joke #how-the-hell-did-I-get-this-hat

I have done the funny

Panda

00:40

@NordineLotfi Different every year. meta.stackexchange.com/questions/358301/…

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Q: How many normal and secret hats have there been in past Winter Bashes?

Does Winter Bash have the same number of normal and secret hats every year? Is there a breakdown of normal and secret hats featured in past Winter Bashes? Having such a list could perhaps allow us to estimate the number of secret hats in future Winter Bashes and approximate the number of secret h...

Nordine Lotfi

Thanks :o

lyxal

tied first with catija :p

Catija

Grrrrr I have one that I should have earned but hasn't been awarded.

Nordine Lotfi

I think I never managed to get more than 2-3 hats

maybe I'm not trying hard enough hmm

lyxal

Or maybe you're trying too hard :p

I went to play a game for 30 minutes and came back to +4 hats

Nordine Lotfi

00:53

honestly I only do the routine I usually do when on SO/SE

lyxal

01:13

Uncontested first place let's go!

wooo yeah baby that’s what i’ve been waiting for thats what it’s all about woohoo

Catija

:/

I'm blaming my family coming home and interrupting my hat search.

lyxal

lol

@Catija do you know what the exact trigger for verified is?

And if so, does it have anything to do with changing one's pfp to their identicon for a bit?

Catija

It was my idea, so I certainly hope so.

What's a pfp?

lyxal

Profile picture

I'm just thinking back to the things I did before getting the hat

gparyani

01:52

Is there a chicken quest as part of this year's Bash? Since balpha is back, I hope so

Speaking of, how involved is/was balpha in the running of this year's Bash? Same as earlier Bashes when he worked for SE?

lyxal

ain't no way this person wearing long pants in summer

Catija

02:04

Seems very appropriate that I was actually tricked into answering a data-tagged question.

@lyxal Some places have quite mild summers where pants are totally reasonable options. :D

lyxal

wish I was in one of those :p

Catija

@lyxal No

@gparyani He was involved in a few ways but not in creating any sort of easter eggs.

lyxal

@Catija "mild summer" how I wish that were true for Australian summers.

Catija

Same in Texas

Unrelated String

can't loose white pants actually be cooler than shorts if the sun's bad enough

Catija

02:11

I feel like I've heard that, yeah.

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Q: Winter Bash 2020 hat names & references explained

Here is a list of the 'etymology' for the Winter Bash 2020 hats. Everything about the naming (whether related to Stack Exchange mechanics, memes or anything else that isn't obvious to most readers) can be found here. What may be obvious to you (because you're a game expert, or a native English sp...

discussion winter-bash fun winter-bash-2020

I'd love to see a question like this this year, if only to see how many of the references y'all pick up on. :D

lyxal

02:23

So for the splunk hat, would a tag data-structures count?

Catija

Yeah - I got mine from a question with community-data

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Q: Cumulative Winter Bash hat data

Is there anywhere that data could be found regarding Winter Bash hats, such as how many of each hat have been earned, when such hats were first earned, and the amount of each hat earned per site? I remember that Stack Exchange used to release data following the Winter Bash in prior years, but cou...

feature-request winter-bash community-data winter-bash-2022

Also, I'm back in the lead.

lyxal

For now

What's fun about winter bash is thinking you know what got you a hat on one site only to get the same hat on another site without having performed the same action you thought was the trigger

Catija

02:40

:D

starball

02:52

hat suggestion for next year if covid is still a big enough thing: covid hat. you get it if you reply to or get replied to by someone with the hat.

Seggan

where does the hat originate?

starball

@Seggan dunno. community user? a created account with a bat profile picture?

Catija

Oooh, that reminds me, I should go set a hat for Community.

emanresu A

Give it whatever the hardest hat to get is

Catija

Right now it only has four to choose from but I think I made a good choice.

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starball

03:12

I like the way V2Blast wore their hat xD

Vickel

03:32

hey all, it took me some time to find the room :)

James Risner

Anyone know how to get the Not Found secret hat yet? I'm not sure what I did to gain it.

gparyani

@Catija Did you post this answer and reattribute it to the Community user?

(The homepage lists you as modifying it with the same timestamp as the answer, and following the last activity link shows that one)

Catija

... I don't know what you're talking about...

The bot did it and is trying to frame me.

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nobody

03:51

@JamesRisner You visit a not found page :)

Although I'm not sure exactly which not found pages work

Visiting /404 definitely does

Vickel

@nobody I did that and it didn't trigger

Joshua Lin

What grants a "heads up!" hat? No idea what I did lol

nobody

@Vickel That's weird. Visiting /404 triggered it for me on two separate sites

Vickel

@nobody did you click on a broken question link?

nobody

@Vickel No, just literally went to stackoverflow.com/404

Broken question links don't work for me either. Hence why I said I'm not sure which Not Found pages trigger it

nobody

04:09

@JoshuaLin Did you flag anything?

I got it on SO and I think the only thing I did there was spam flag a post

James Risner

04:27

Seems heads up (confirmed on 3 sites) can be triggered from removing a thank you comment (but likely any comment if the flag is cleared.) I can't confirm whether post flags would do the same yet.

nobody

Well, I didn't flag any comments on SO

So post flags probably work too

So the trigger would be: flag a post or comment that subsequently gets deleted?

Or does any sort of flag work?

James Risner

Motor Vehicle earns Heads Up for flagging a comment that is deleted.
Serverfault and Etherum flag a comment that is deleted and try again (error: "This comment has been removed") earns.

So yea, flag and get cleared/removed/deleted earns.

If you just post flagged and earned, it's probably all flags that are cleared.

Catija

05:21

@gparyani I'm not quite sure why you feel like you need to "ruin" the fun of Community posting on Meta about her hat.

James Risner

05:34

@nobody Confirmed, flag anything, wait for it to be approved = heads up. Do I get credit for discovery? ;-)

(I just got a site with only an approved post flag award heads up)

Flagging is confirmed, 10x approved flags (only verify comment - but suspect it's a bronze version of heads up)

Panda

I think X Marks the Spot is awarded for having 3 secret hats on one site.

i.e. Propel Thyself in past WBs

James Risner

@Panda My three X marks match that (3 secret, 4 secret, and 4 secrets)

Panda

@JamesRisner Nice!

Eran

05:51

Hello

Panda

@Eran Hello, nice to see you!

Eran

@Panda Hi, good to see you too

James Risner

Unflagging is retracting a flag.

V2Blast

06:19

@starball Haha, thanks. When one pair of sunglasses isn't enough... Add another one :D

gparyani

@Catija To prevent confusion from newer users as to how or why a supposed "bot" account is posting that kind of answer.

V2Blast

@nobody I think that's the only one that works for that hat.

gparyani

See also: stackoverflowteams.com/c/charcoal/questions/516 and stackoverflowteams.com/c/charcoal/questions/627 (requires Charcoal team access)

James Risner

@Catija You actually searching? Or did you have the list?

Panda

Hmm was trying to find users with Collection Complete but in the midst of doing so, got it myself

James Risner

06:39

@Panda I've been trying to get it. Any idea how you got it/

Panda

@JamesRisner Hmm, I did a variety of random things, can't tell which one earned it. I did some edits on posts and edited my profile too.

Panda

06:56

@JamesRisner Just recalled that I saved, upvoted and edited a post. Maybe the 3 actions make a Complete Collection.

Ankit Sharma

07:07

Is there some hidden requirement for cookies hat?

Not triggereing for me

Catija

@gparyani There's no indication yet that anyone is confused, though.

@JamesRisner I have the list, I still have to do the work, though. :P

@AnkitSharma No. Did you wait 10 minutes?

Panda

@Catija Could you confirm this?

2 hours ago, by Panda

I think X Marks the Spot is awarded for having 3 secret hats on one site.

Catija

I could, yes.

Ankit Sharma

@Catija I think it's more than 10 min. Cookie setting is same which come in popup right on bottom corner?

James Risner

@Catija But shall not at this time?

Panda

07:14

That’s an easy one, thanks @Catija!

Ankit Sharma

did we break any secret hat yet O.o

Catija

Lukas Rotter

I think you have to literally to go /404 for the NotFound hat to trigger, invalid question ids / random other urls didn't cut it for me.

James Risner

@catija Also can you confirm: Heads Up = 1 helpful flag, flagging = 10 helpful flags, unflagging = 1 retracted flag.

Catija

It runs every 10 minutes on the 10s, generally. There are some we had to cache longer for performance reasons but I don't remember which hats it was.

@JamesRisner Yes, no, no

Ankit Sharma

07:23

@Catija thanks

Catija

@AnkitSharma I just got it on M&TV so hopefully it'll work for you eventually.

You don't actually need to save any changes, just open it and close it again.

Ankit Sharma

Got that

I tried both ways in two different sites and got it in both

Catija

Cool

James Risner

08:04

@Catija Any benefit for trying to keep pinning down the award requirements for hats I have? --- Kinda guess I'm asking if there's a hat for learning how to find hats?

Catija

There's not. We haven't been doing manual hats like Archimedes for years.

James Risner

08:23

On previous years there were hats that required "Pinging an SE employee", what did that mean?

flydev

Hello, I got a Collection Complete hat, and I wear it :) but I am wondering which collection they want to speak about and/or what's is the trigger

James Risner

@flydev We've been trying to discover. What were you doing between 7 minutes and 30 minutes before the hat?

flydev

cool, been trying to discover it too. I did nothing, just woke up and saw my awarded hats

James Risner

hmm, interesting.

flydev

And before going to sleep, I just visited SO. However, I have a tab open on a question for 2 days.

James Risner

08:33

@flydev I have 50+ tabs open on questions for months - so it's not likely that.

@flydev comparing our profiles, I think it may have something to do with badges. Maybe the fact you have one or more of these that I don't:
Census
Curious
Enlightened
Good Answer
Nice Answer
Popular Question
Scholar

InanimateBeing

09:03

Hi, got the Albert Einstein hat but am confused about the trigger. Perhaps answer a question within 12 hours (or 3 hours) of question posted with at least 1 (could be 0 too) upvote?

emanresu A

Nope

If so, Neil would have it

InanimateBeing

@JamesRisner wait a second... it's not instant(!)... Well then Albert Einstein hat might be given for approving (2) suggested edits ¯_(ツ)_/¯?

@emanresuA I see, just realized my folly.

Though if hats aren't awarded even after 30 minutes or (2 hours) after the trigger, then that would complicate things a bit more. (Like getting tag edits approved). Is it the case?

flydev

@JamesRisner ah yes maybe, what first was coming to my mind, was because I got reputations on multiple area, and / or getting 150 visits on consecutives days.

mousetail

09:51

Chatterbox seems to just be talking some amount in the chat

CinCout

hola

Daneel Olivaw

10:12

Is Collection Complete obtained by having's one's question saved by another user?

emanresu A

That's gotta be it

For the hat, I recently saved a question from someone who hasn't been on the site in months, and they have only it

CDJB

I could confirm it for you if someone saved this question , chosen absolutely completely at random

emanresu A

Of course, completely random

nohillside

@CDJB done

emanresu A

(I created a politics account to save that lol)

mousetail

10:19

If everyone does it we won't know how many saves are needed though

CDJB

@emanresuA Maybe there's a hat for that, you never know!

emanresu A

Already got it

starball

@InanimateBeing I don't think so. I've approved 10 today (and do not have that hat).

CDJB

@emanresuA I think it might be going too far if I asked you to ask a question so I can close, edit and reopen it :D

CDJB

10:32

@DaneelOlivaw Well, I haven't received it so far - don't think this can be it.

CinCout

@CDJB you can do that to my latest question on SO

CDJB

@CinCout I was really on about the 'Hey, Listen!' hat - needs the user with the closed question to be a new contributor.

@DaneelOlivaw Ooh, I tell a lie - just got collection complete. Guess we can confirm that one :)

CinCout

@CDJB makes sense. I thought you were testing a secret hat!

Stiv

@Panda Another possibility (linked to the use of 'My Day' in the name) might be voting on a post that pre-dates the user's own membership of a site, perhaps? Easy to disprove if any long-time members have picked it up for voting on relatively recent posts, but the cut-off might be a relative time period like this rather than a static one.

gparyani

in You Are Here, 19 mins ago, by Xnero

@Willeke If you save someones post they get a secret hat. Can you save one of mine (you can unsave it after) and I'll save one of yours?

InanimateBeing

10:44

@nobody yup that link worked for me too and got the hat on SO. Even though I checked 5 MSE (M=Math) not found pages but that failed to trigger the hat on MSE.

Panda

@Stiv If true, that would be novel. Usually "old" refers posts from a year ago, based on hats from past years.

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Q: Unable to adjust my hat as hat control is hidden

I can't adjust the position of my hat as the hat control overflow is hidden. I'm using Safari v16.1 running on macOS.

bug design winter-bash winter-bash-2022

Just wondering if anyone else has this problem too, or is it just me?

gparyani

I'll let you all know that the Not Found hat was the very first hat I earned on the network. I loaded the Meta.SE homepage at the time WB started and I was immediately awarded the hat.

That means to me it's awarded based on past activity.

in Winter Bash 2021, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:20, by gparyani

Also, for what it's worth: last year, the team broke from tradition and didn't disclose the triggers for the unsolved secret hats at the end, which they did for 2019 and earlier Bashes, so they could re-use the same triggers for this year's Bash. Those who want to try and guess may want to look at past activity from Winter 2020 for hints.

InanimateBeing

@starball Well then the only other thing that I did before getting that Einstein hat was suggest some tag wiki edits. I did 2 edits in total. 1 was that of excerpt of a tag and the other was the description of that tag. They were blank before I edited them. The edits got approved (obvio).

James Risner

@InanimateBeing 30 mins should be close to the most delay, not 2 hours.

gparyani

Changing your chat parent site, once you've earned it on your original parent site, will allow you to earn it on other sites too

InanimateBeing

11:00

@JamesRisner still worth a try perhaps... for Einstein hat? I mean from my side nothing else could explain. Under "All actions" that's all I've got.

Rest is just surfing here and there AFAIR.

nohillside

I just got Einstein on U&L. Only action was processing some review queues

James Risner

@InanimateBeing I've approved more than 2 suggested edit, so it's not 4 or less.

@flydev I'm 117 consec days. From the rep on multiple areas? You mean sites or tags?

InanimateBeing

@nohillside It worked for you and me but why it's not working for others? User starball and JamesRisner say otherwise.

mousetail

@nohillside What specific queues did you do?

nohillside

2 x close, 4 x suggested edit

Ankit Sharma

11:11

chatterbox is for star or pinning?

InanimateBeing

2 x tag edits suggested; 3 x suggested edits (I approved all): For Einstein hat

@AnkitSharma Chatterbox is for simply chatting in a group and your messages should appear as 5 (or 6) separate box (in the same chat group) (so 2 or more consecutive messages are counted as 1) to trigger the chatterbox hat.

Also, I got Heads Up hat on MSE and just by looking at the hat's image, it seems one got to have spent at least 42 minutes on that site in a single day. And also I don't think it needs to be spent all at once without a break, not sure on this part though.

Ankit Sharma

@InanimateBeing 5/6 already happened here

InanimateBeing

@AnkitSharma There you go. Let's confirm the suspect.

James Risner

@InanimateBeing Heads up confirmed is an approved flag, a single post or comment flag.

Ankit Sharma

@InanimateBeing I got in movies where I have only one box with two separate line, one self pinned and got one star later

gparyani

11:21

@Catija My official guess for the Not Found hat: have encountered a 404 page on the site at any point in this month. (Also explains why I'd be immediately awarded the hat on Meta.SE the moment WB started)

InanimateBeing

@JamesRisner lol. So the image is leading as anything!

Dharman

stackoverflow.com/users/11995760/dharmanbot I got 5 hats even though I haven't been using this account

emanresu A

My guess would be that their code started tracking 404 page visits a few days/weeks before

gparyani

Also, it seems the designer for the hats is either from Switzerland or loves the Swiss flag

James Risner

More suggested edits got me Albert. So it's more than 2 it seems.

emanresu A

11:22

@Dharman Have you signed that bot up for Smokey or something similar?

Dharman

No, it only runs my bot activities

SPArcheon

@gparyani I visited the 404 page on purpose today and got nothing. That was the first thing I tried

Dharman

i.e. chat messages and flagging

InanimateBeing

@JamesRisner Finally! Congrats.

Dharman

I wonder what X marks the spot is

James Risner

11:23

@Dharman All of those are flagging related (X mark is 3+ other secret). Unflagging is something related to flagging retraction I think but can't pin it down.

Ankit Sharma

@SPArcheon same from charcoal got 404 pages when clicked

Dharman

Because I think I get that chatterbox is chat messages, flagging is 2 flags, unflagging is 5 or 10 flags

@JamesRisner It can't be because my bot does not retract anything

SPArcheon

can anyone provide me a link to a deleted question on SO? Maybe it has to be an existing deleted question that you can not see.

James Risner

@Dharman Not 10, because I flagged 10 without retraction on 2 sites and only got flagging. Might be 11 for unflagging maybe. or I made mistake on exactly 10.

gparyani

I hope we're not being thrown off with some hat triggers, designed to only award based on random chance and not in other times.

It could be with the Not Found hat that with each 404 page load there's a 10% chance of earning the hat

Dharman

11:27

@JamesRisner That's definitely not right. I haven't raised 3 flags and I got it

I got 404 hat before the event started

Ankit Sharma

@SPArcheon i can provide movies deleted link only :D movies.stackexchange.com/questions/111735/…

Toribio

@SPArcheon just recently deleted stackoverflow.com/questions/74810707/…

Panda

Got Albert Einstein after going through a number of Suggested Edits reviews.

SPArcheon

12:02

WB site still references the Konami code script, seems unused

all the animals are still there too,

(and for some reason, "dragon" is now an option)

James Risner

@SPArcheon link? I'm not sure what you talking about.

SPArcheon

@JamesRisner do you remember the old "secret" links on the site that used to point to random emoji and/or youtube videos in the older Bash sites?

They are still there, but I don't remember "dragon" being a valid option before.

James Risner

@Dharman Strange, my account on RPG has exactly 5 comment flags, all approved and only Heads Up for the last 6 hours (so it's not caching or delay)

James Risner

12:18

Anyone have any idea on "Over 9000", I don't think it actually is something more than 9000.

Ginger

apparently I completed the requirements for two secret hats overnight

not sure how

SPArcheon

@LukasRotter you are probably correct. An that raises another question: is even possible to land on the actual /404 page without typing the url? Any "missing" link would just display the page content but does NOT cause a redirect.

see this, somehow relevant.

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Q: Can you land on the "real" 404 page without a direct link?

As for question title I am wondering if it is possible to actually land on the 404 page for a site (example: https://meta.stackexchange.com/404 ) without manually typing the actual link. As far as I know, if you try to visit a not-existing page you do indeed see the 404 page message, but you are ...

support 404-not-found

James Risner

@ginger up to 30 min delay is possible, which always gets me

Ginger

no, I was active for all of the tail end of yesterday

I must've completed the reqs overnight or I'd've'd already gotten them

I especially love that the script that positions the WB hats is called teatime.js :p

SPArcheon

12:35

@Ginger ^ Probable reasoning.

James Risner

12:51

@Catija Looks like flagging is 11 helpful flags, can you confirm?

SPArcheon

CinCout, India

9.2k 11 53 65

c++ regex c c++11 c# arrays javascript

^ only user I could found with Mario Molina.

Mario Molina

Mario José Molina-Pasquel Henríquez (19 March 1943 – 7 October 2020), known as Mario Molina, was a Mexican chemist. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole, and was a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in discovering the threat to the Earth's ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases. He was the first Mexican-born scientist to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the third Mexican born person to receive the Nobel award.In his career, Molina held research and teaching positions at University of California, Irvine, California Institute...

James Risner

Know when they acquired it?

SPArcheon

nope. I was looking at the activity on SO. Mostly reviews.

and then some comments about 20h ago.

> 463035818_is_not_a_number I have a B.h but no A.h

James Risner

I've seen 3 or 4 with "It's Okay", but I can't find a pattern. I thought it was related to answering things with [power] tags but that didn't pan out.

SPArcheon

I was thinking something about posting some text that looks like a chemical formula... but no clue

mousetail

12:56

How does peterJ have the most hats on every site

Catija

@JamesRisner no

James Risner

@mousetail Repeating the steps at every site?

mousetail

Hmm yes I guess there are a good amount of hats that requiree little to no effort even without engaing

SPArcheon

@Catija please, tell me that Emperor is not for being First place in the leaderboard at any time...

Catija

Nah.

We don't randomly award hats... other than cases from the past where we have out two different versions of the same hat and you were randomly awarded one version or the other.

We also don't do hats that involve pestering staff.

There's a handful of hats that may have been awarded immediately after WB started because someone forgot to clear the list from when we were testing, so be careful about jumping to conclusions based on hats awarded the first 30 minutes of the event.

SPArcheon

13:05

? why random? That would just be extremely exclusive since so far you sit on top of the leaderboard, and you are the one who has that hat right now....

so if that was the trigger, one would have to beat the current top user.

doesn't seem that random, only extremely hard to get.

James Risner

@SPArcheon I believe they are saying, no to your theory.

Catija

@SPArcheon The "random" comment doesn't relate to your question. Someone earlier was positing that a hat is only awarded in 10% of cases and I'm saying that's generally not how hats work.

James Risner

I'm pretty sure going to a comment link of a delete question will get you "Not Found" without going to /404 - e.g. mechanics.stackexchange.com/posts/comments/62836

@SPArcheon or I stand corrected, your leaderboard theory is back on?

Catija

No. The "nah" was saying that's wrong.

SPArcheon

only thing that comes to mind is "Emperor new clothes".

James Risner

13:09

@Catija final try on Flagging, exactly 10? I must have made mistake when I tried that last night.

Catija

No

James Risner

guess it's speed related, I can acquire it on command. I just can't figure out the number or speed. ;-(

Ginger

visited MSE 404 page and got Not Found

that's gotta be it

Eran

Someone commented that "Back in my Day" was about voting an old question. I upvoted a 2013 question on SO and got it.

Ginger

@Catija official guess: Not Found is gotten from visiting /404 on any SE site

(except for A51 probably :b)

@Catija official guess: Back In My Day is gotten from upvoting a question or answer that is over 5 years old

SPArcheon

13:14

Catija did practically nothing on Meta today, yet the Emperor hat is tied to that site. So, either it is a network wide action (those are assigned to meta) or a no-history trigger. The reference for the hat has to be the Emperor New Clothes story, and that was about convincing someone they were wearing some clothes that "only stupid people do not see".

Anyone tried removing their hat for a while?

Ginger

@SPArcheon I thought it was Emperor's New Groove :p

just removed my hats

SPArcheon

The Emperor's New Clothes

"The Emperor's New Clothes" (Danish: Kejserens nye klæder [ˈkʰɑjsɐns ˈnyˀə ˈkʰleːɐ̯]) is a literary folktale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about a vain emperor who gets exposed before his subjects. The tale has been translated into over 100 languages."The Emperor's New Clothes" was first published with "The Little Mermaid" in Copenhagen, by C. A. Reitzel, on 7 April 1837, as the third and final installment of Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children. The tale has been adapted to various media, and the story's title, the phrase "the Emperor has no clothes", and variations thereof...

look at the hat picture.

It is clearly a "not existing" hat.

So it HAS to be a reference to the folktale

Ginger

maybe it's not wearing any hats for the first day of WB?

SPArcheon

@Ginger that would be utterly stupid.

Ginger

okay, jeez

SPArcheon

13:19

@Ginger Almost toxic - all hat hunters would immediately wear hats, and punishing them with a permanently missable hat would be not nice.

Ginger

that'd be evil, yeah

misunderstood your message

SPArcheon

What could work instead is "remove your hat for a certain number of hours"

@Ginger yep, sorry for that. I was unclear

I will try to stay hatless for a few hours.

Ginger

@SPArcheon or maybe "opt out of WB for a little while"?

I got Not Found on MSE after going to /404, but I tried the same on CGSE and got nothing

SPArcheon

@Ginger could also work, but if the hat is a reference to the folktale it makes more sense to "pretend" you are wearing an hat that "opting out"

I also tried to check that they didn't went as far as adding an "invisible" button on the hat wearing panel.

Ginger

that'd be clever

SPArcheon

13:23

That would have been quite cool actually.

anyway, another year, another Bash without an hat for playing the asteroid chat game.

probably they don't even remember it exists.

Ginger

here at CGCC we love to have long discussions about chat and how cool (or not) it is q:

mousetail

Any ideas what the "Everything anywhere at once" hat means?

Ginger

~~have 40 tabs open to one SE site~~

actually, that might be it

have a tab open for >=10 separate sites?

mousetail

I tried opening 10 tabs

SPArcheon

visit either Glorfindel or Skeet profiles.

Ginger

13:26

lol

(I just tried searching "Jon Skeet":)

SPArcheon

Skeet because he is SO god. Glorfindel because he is on almost every WB bug report :P

Ginger

whoops, PII in that image

^^ can someone nuke that message?

mousetail

SPArcheon

@mousetail maybe something related to

stackexchange.com/sites#

Ginger

maybe it's "visit the profile of the highest-rep user for your site"?

mousetail

13:31

Dennis, The Nineteenth Byte

208k 41 361 812

code-golf math string number sequence array number-theory

Ginger

tried it, no dice (I think)

@Catija are there any hats related to chat?

mousetail

I also tried wheat wizzard who is the top of this yeare

Ginger

Did you mean: wizard?

Where can I find last year's leaderboards? (also what does being #1 at the end of WB get me?)

mousetail

You can legally call yourself a Ginger

Ginger

I already can

my hair color is ginger, why do you think I chose this name

mousetail

13:35

True but if you win you can also legally call yourself Ginger

@Ginger how did you get a approved suggested edit even though you have more than 2K?

Ginger

magic

I'm not telling you, but if you guess it I'll confirm d:

mousetail

On some other site?

Ginger

nope

lyxal

@mousetail tag edits

Ginger

correct

why you gotta troll me like that lyxal

lyxal

13:38

because without my clicking of the approval button, you would have waited longer :p

Catija

@Ginger yeah

Ginger

sure, but you can't unclick it now

@Catija eyyy

lyxal

@Ginger it really isn't

Catija

@Ginger at least two, I think?

Ginger

hmm

Smitop

13:40

@Ginger i have the Chatterbox secret hat

I think I got it after chatting on chat.meta?

Ginger

okay, lemme rephrase that: @Catija are there any unfound hats relating to chat?

mousetail

@Smitop I got it after chatting a lot in code golf

Ginger

same

Dharman

Unflagging has nothing to do with flagging

I just got it on SO

Ginger

weird

@Catija official guess: Back In My Day is awarded for voting for a question 10 years old or more

~~I shudder to imagine what we've done to your inbox~~

mousetail

13:42

I got it for voting on a 7 year old question

Ginger

@Catija does the leaderboard count total hats or total unique hats?

I have Not Found on multiple sites, does that count as one hat on the leaderboard or multiple?

mousetail

Is it possible to earn a hat more than once?

Ginger

@mousetail yes

you can only get a hat once per site, but there are lots of sites

Catija

@Ginger unique

Ginger

darn it

mousetail

13:44

Oh right there is a site-wide leaderboard too

Ginger

@Catija why're the little hat icon list things capped at 9 hats?

Catija

I'm not answering all of the guesses because I'm not at my computer looking at the triggers and I'm working on 4 hours or so of sleep.

Ginger

I don't blame you :p

anyone else here who can answer guesses?

Catija

Fiddler on the roof - Tradition ( with subtitles )

►

Kadir Şahbaz

I got Back In My Day for voting on a 5 year old question

Ginger

13:46

@Catija what

Catija

It's a great song.

Ginger

but it doesn't answer the question

or have you just lost your marbles

Catija

What's the name of the song?

Ginger

Tradition

oh

Catija

Hahahaha

Ginger

13:50

well played, but that still doesn't really answer the question

mousetail

Fiddler on the roof has some great songs

Catija

Sure it does. At some point we capped it at 9 and we've never changed the code.

No one probably knows why it was capped any more, we just keep doing it.

SPArcheon

... I am pretty sure that they expect us to recognize that "11 saves the day" hat , but all I see is KH

Ginger

Catija

@mousetail it does! I used to listen to the record of the original cast recording.

@SPArcheon KH? We mostly felt the demogorgon was a better call than a nosebleed.

Dharman

13:54

@Catija Is unflagging making 10 edits?

Catija

No

SPArcheon

@Catija That is a demogorgon? My second guess was "aerial view of Beetlejuice sand worm"

But keep in mind I never actually watched Stranger Things, so...

Catija

It's a very clean version, but yes.

Dharman

Maybe voting to close 10 questions

Catija

No one wants to post the "what's the reference I'm missing" question for the hats??? I'm disappointed. I started drafting it but I felt silly having it just be a brain dump instead of seeing what y'all catch.

Ginger

13:57

I think it's been posted

Catija

@Dharman unflagging? No.

Ginger

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What follows is a list of the 'etymology' for the Winter Bash 2022 hats. Everything about the naming (whether related to Stack Exchange mechanics, memes, or anything else that isn't obvious to most readers) can be found here. What may be obvious to you (because you're a game expert, or a native E...

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Catija

Oh. Sorry. I've been dealing with the Geneva convention stuff

Ginger

the what

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