Winter / Summer Bash 2022

Ginger

15:00

@Catija is Everything Everywhere awardable without any other users doing anything?

SPArcheon

I kinda want to test a possible "bug", but at the same time I would have to post a question, wait for someone to vote it and then delete.

Boots

Knowing me, it's probably being downvoted by lots of folks.

Catija

@Ginger yes

Ginger

alright

Boots

Ooooh. So it's not victim-related.

Ginger

15:02

it's not votes then

mousetail

I volunteer as victim

Smitop

maybe verified is 10 messages with >= 1 star?

mousetail

I've gotten both downvoted and upvoted on meta though

Panda

@Catija Is the trigger for This Is The Way – "Post edited after receiving a comment."?

Catija

@Panda no

Ginger

15:04

something is sus here

@Boots well, that hat looks incredibly disturbing on you

~~if that's any consolation~~

b_jonas

@SPArcheon hmm. we should get a test site for this kind of thing. though I guess if we had one, it would have to be ineligible for earning hats.

mousetail

The eye is pretty prominent on the image, is it triggered by geting views?

Ginger

@b_jonas exactly! a Sandbox.SE would be nice for testing bots and stuff (but it'd have to have a rep requirement or smth)

~~we used to have Windows Phone.SE but that's gone now~~

SPArcheon

@b_jonas only place that would kinda work is meta, yet I would still create noise. That's why I was trying to just ask Catija to check before in the Tavern.

mousetail

We should bring back windows phone SE but only during the summer/winter

b_jonas

15:09

@Ginger over on Wikimedia sites, we have test.wikipedia.org and test2.wikipedia.org for sandbox testing

Ginger

exactly

mousetail

Normally you could use teams for this, but I don't think teams has hats

Ginger

@Catija could we have a hint?

Konrad

Is there a list of secret hats somewhere?

Ginger

(also 3 rows of users here on my screen)

@Konrad yes: meta.stackexchange.com/a/384709/1116284

Catija

15:11

@Ginger We're not even 40 hours in.

I meant to say 48 but... whatever.

Ginger

@Catija ~~yeah but like as a reward for our exemplary performance~~

b_jonas

huh, there are suspciously few proposals on Area 51 that aren't yet open

what happened? do people just stopped proposing a site for every new fashionable thing, or did SE start to close the proposals early?

Ginger

@b_jonas you should do some voting for Langdev.SE, I'm totally not associated with them in any way but they sure sound cool :p

b_jonas

@Ginger I don't think so. I don't think I want more software-related SE sites, and it's hard to convince me to support any Area 51 proposal.

Ginger

ah well

Catija

15:15

@b_jonas When we don't accept proposals for Crypto any more, there's not much else to propose? :P

Ginger

soon we will have a SE site for everything

SPArcheon

@Catija NFT.stackexchange.com ?

b_jonas

@Ginger not quite, I remember sometimes I still have questions that aren't on topic on any SE site

Ginger

alright, I'm tired of thinking about Everywhere Everything

what other hats are we missing

Emperor's New Hat, ofc

Catija

Everything is easy to get on Code Golf.

Ginger

15:19

@Catija ...except for Splunk

Catija

I mean the hat

Ginger

and the review-related ones

@Catija oh lol

that's interesting

b_jonas

when I have one, sometimes I ask in SE chat, sometimes in other informal chat rooms or forums. for more serious questions that may require experts or detailed research, like what would be suitable for SE in general but no particular site, I ask en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk , since it has a very wide scope, about the only reasonable questions off-topic there are meta ones.

Ginger

@Catija then why doesn't anyone have it?

Catija

They still have to do the thing... It's just that many sites only rarely meet the qualifications while it's common on CG.

Ginger

15:21

oooh, that's interesting

our site is definitely different

VLAZ

Hmm, many answers, perhaps?

Ginger

but I can't think of what exactly it is that we're doing differently

@Catija does anyone have it on CGCC?

b_jonas

@Ginger yes, Catija does

Catija

I do, I think?

Ginger

@b_jonas sorry, wasn't clear

b_jonas

15:22

these hat secrets must be extra hard if Catija is willing to give so many hints and answers about them

Catija

@Ginger You can't just change the hat suddenly

Ginger

sorry :p

I thought you meant that Emperor's was easy to get on CGCC

lemme re-ask that: does anyone have Emperor's on CGCC?

VLAZ

@Ginger Everything Everywhere All At Once

Catija

Ah, no, I can't get Emperor on CG.

Ginger

hm

b_jonas

15:24

codegolf.stackexchange.com/users/78850/lyxal also has the ten-finger one-eye one

Boots

@Catija Is Everything Everywhere linked to a badge (is it earned with in conjunction with one)?

SPArcheon

@Catija Hopefully Everywhere is not "visit ALL sites where you have an account. Including Meta ones", right? (or even your specific profile page)

Ginger

@b_jonas we know

but lyxal is very active so it's hard to figure it out from his activity

SPArcheon

would be far more common for new users if that was the case

Catija

56 mins ago, by Catija

If it did, wouldn't you get it on multiple sites simultaneously?

b_jonas

15:25

I suspect that the ten-finger one-eye one requires you to post a question or answer

Ginger

we have a high answer-to-question ration on CGCC, is that it?

SPArcheon

@Catija and.. it is not related to finding anyone with your same name, right?

Ginger

no, lyxal's name is unique

SPArcheon

Asking because we notices yesterday someone switching their name to Catija.

@Ginger I never said "on the same site", after all the movie is about parallel dimensions.

Ginger

@SPArcheon it appears to be unique network-wide

Catija

15:26

@SPArcheon no

Ginger

I don't believe there's a single other "lyxal" on SE

SPArcheon

@Catija good. I like my name as it is.

TarHalda

@Catija is Chatterbox posting a certain number of messages in chat?

Ginger

it is, I think

Willeke

Are people already trying to post at a given time (or number of minutes before/after an hour)?

Catija

15:30

@Ginger But there are other "Iyxal"s

Ginger

lyxal's name is spelled with a l

I hope

Catija

Yeah, the font messed up my joke. :P

Adrian Mole

Did you just get the "Font Victim" hat, then?

Boots

@catija Is "Chatterbox" triggered by 10 separated chat messages (i.e. in separate boxes)?

Catija

@Boots Getting close.

SPArcheon

15:36

@AdrianMole 𝕴 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔨 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔳𝔢𝔡 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔳𝔦𝔠𝔱𝔦𝔪 𝔬𝔣 𝔗𝕳𝕴𝔖 𝔣𝔬𝔫𝔱.

Boots

Is it triggered by being replied to 10 times in chat?

Catija

colder

Boots

@Catija Replying to 10 chat messages?

Catija

I'm sorry, y'all've reached your limit of stabs in the dark for the moment. Please try again later. :P

Adrian Mole

Is about posting a chat message with "Hat" in it?

Catija

15:40

That "you" is plural.

Adrian Mole

{Waffles}

Boots

The Royal "you", got it.

Catija

I mean, "you" is technically plural.

Thou is singular.

Adrian Mole

Unless it's the plural of majesty. ("Thou" is typically used in English Bibles when referring to The Almighty.)

But all those Olde English words that have y- and th- variants derive from words that were originally spelt using a thorn. This looks (a bit) like a Y but sounds like a (voiced) TH.

Machavity

15:54

The 11 hat makes me think of this Sesame Street parody

TarHalda

@AdrianMole *Older English Bibles - most modern translations don't that I know of

b_jonas

@Machavity I think the 11 hat is a reference to this monster irregularwebcomic.net/4158.html

see irregularwebcomic.net/cast/strangerthings.html for a clearer picture

the resemblance should be obvious

VLAZ

@b_jonas The 11 hat is a reference to the show Stranger Things. In the first season there is a recurring monster whose mouth looks like the hat. And there is also a character called "eleven".

buddemat

@Catija Is it that Chatterbox requires several comments, and Verified requires 10 different comments each starred once. Hats are awarded on Stack Overflow only?

mousetail

But isn't that just a normal lego piece you can get?

b_jonas

15:58

@VLAZ thanks, that matches what I thought

Machavity

@b_jonas Which is a LEGO(tm) of a Demogorgon

b_jonas

@mousetail very likely. Lego has lots of sets tied into all sorts of other franchises. Harry Potter, Star Wars, and all these modern video games and TV series.

here are two questions full of Marvel Lego figures: scifi.stackexchange.com/q/104906/4918 scifi.stackexchange.com/q/87223/4918

they should have Stranger Things too

SPArcheon

@b_jonas there is even an official set, not just minifigures

mousetail

Lol the "Computer Programmer" minifig in the middle of the superheros

SPArcheon

b_jonas

16:05

ah yes, meta.stackexchange.com/a/384773/222298 already says it's that monster, and that was there before I spoke

SPArcheon

and then you have custom lego too.

b_jonas

@mousetail if you're new to these fun questions on Sci Fi SE, check out IMO the best one: scifi.stackexchange.com/q/68005/4918

SPArcheon

Catija

Or, you know... you could just go talk to the Lego experts ^^^

SPArcheon

@Catija which would not have posted a Klee.

Machavity

16:17

@Catija I've tried to use that site, but it's always bricked

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mousetail

how do you find the top post of all time on a site?

Machavity

@mousetail Go to /questions and then sort by score (i.e. scifi.stackexchange.com/questions )

mousetail

Thanks

SPArcheon

I may be partial, but the more I look at that avatar low-res version, the more it looks like a pink butterfly

Anyway, no rep cap hats this year?

weird.

mousetail

16:35

Most of the top questions on SO are about git lol

Ginger

17:01

I wonder what that tells you about it... :p

mousetail

Yea the git UI is terrible. After years of trial and error I feel I have a good understanding but I'd expect better from the cornerstone of all modern software development

James Risner

@Catija the cryptocurrency (all not just one) is stalling but I believe it’s a fix for all the niche crypto things not already on here. It needs more non-bitcoin cash focused people. @b_jonas

Machavity

@mousetail It's terrible because git has no UI :P

mousetail

It has a UI

A text-based UI

A text-based UI can be good or bad too

Steffan

@Ginger Splunk is easy on CG

mousetail

17:10

It's funny how all the data-structures questions got bumped

Ginger

Hey, Listen! is next to impossible to get on CGCC

mousetail

No, I want more people to come to CGSE so I can get the "answers someone's first question" hat

Ginger

I'm trying for that one too :p

Join CGCC! you won't regret it

Steffan

Abraham Lincoln and the other is also pretty much impossible on CGCC

There's never anything to review

I got Abraham on SO though

Ginger

@Steffan Did you mean: Albert Einstein?

Steffan

17:13

LMAO yes

mousetail

I was confused

Ginger

if only we were still getting Indonesian Gambling Spam

Steffan

However, I don't have enough rep on SO for Thomas Mensah

And there's never anything on CGCC, so I probably won't get that hat.

mousetail

Which queue is Thomas?

Steffan

Close votes

Actually, Catija hasn't confirmed it but it works for people.

Catija

17:15

Y'all are too SO centric.

Ginger

what

Steffan

what

So you mean thomas mensah and albert einstein are possible even if you don't have rep?

Maybe there's multiple triggers

Ginger

sus

Steffan

I still don't have Collection Complete lol

mousetail

Might just be closing questions, not directly related to the queue?

or flagging questions with close reasons

Steffan

17:18

Maybe

Anyone can flag

mousetail

It might be a specific flag/close reason, since there are a few other flagging related ones

Steffan

Seems like most everyone at the top of the leaderboard has Flagging and/or Unflagging

mousetail

Yea I still got neither but did all the review queues

Steffan

Is flagging even related to flags

Maybe it's related to handling chat flags

Probly not ig, I think some people with less than 10k networkwide rep have it

Machavity

@Steffan Unlikely. Chat flags are pretty rare

Steffan

17:24

I probably get a popup like once a week

mousetail

I've seen a total of 2 chat flags since I've got the privilege and both where from other language SE sites that I couldn't understand

Oh I just got unflagging

I reviewed like 10 close votes

and did a few edits

Steffan

Where are you getting these close vote reviews

mousetail

Stack Overflow

Steffan

Rip

Oh wait I'm only 70 rep away on SO

Willeke

I did 10 close votes and did not get unflagging. (I did get flagging but I do think that was not related.)

That was on Travel where I am mod.

Steffan

17:28

Maybe I should cook up a bit of rep on SO and then I can do close votes

mousetail

I've done like 25, some today some yesterday

Steffan

I'll go look for stuff to answer on SO lol, I need rep

Most of my rep there is from a 205-vote answer

mousetail

If unflagging is close votes, flagging could be reopen votes?

Willeke

I did not vote that many re-open review queue questions as we only had 2 of them, but I do have flagging. So I am sure you are on the wrong path there.

mousetail

Hmmm that might not be it then

Willeke

17:32

I think I got a hat for the 10 review close votes, but am not sure.

So if you can vote ten of them, try it.

mousetail

Could it be skipping questions in review queues? I tend to skip the majority of items

Steffan

10/11 close votes supposedly gives you thomas mensah

mousetail

True, I did get that one yesterday too

Would be odd to have 2 hats for one queue

Willeke

On my second most hats site (I am mod there but it is a quiet site) I am overtaken by a user who has been a member for years and has no activity (other than now saving a Q and A by someone else). I hope to get the top spot again when I do get some questions and answers.

Steffan

17:46

This is a pain trying to find stuff to answer on SO lol.

I found something and then while I was typing someone FGITWed me

Ginger

f

b_jonas

@Ginger I'm already joined to Code Golf but I only have answers, no questions. Are you saying I should ask a question now and I'll get lots of fast answers? I'll have to think about which of my practical coding questions I could get Golf to solve then.

Ginger

@b_jonas well, we do questions a bit different

could we discuss this in TNB?

The Nineteenth Byte

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mousetail

@b_jonas Ask in the sandbox first though, just to make sure it's a good challenge

James Risner

@Catija so previously you said emperor cloths was a question with winter-bash but didn’t need status-fixed? This doesn’t count then? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384807

Catija

17:52

@JamesRisner Are you confusing Emperor with Defender of the Unicorn?

Machavity

@Steffan 11 from what I can tell. And we're talking Close Vote reviews, not merely close votes in general

Tetsujin

I just got This is the Way & Defender of the Unicorn on Meta, just after a staff/mod answered my question, I accepted, upvoted & added a comment. The staff member also added a 'status completed tag' - if that helps anyone figure those out.

Machavity

@Tetsujin Theories have abounded about the [status-completed] tag

James Risner

@Catija right yes, unicorn not emp

Steffan

@Machavity Yes, reviews is what I meant

Catija

17:55

@JamesRisner Correct, it's status-completed only.

Ginger

CONFIRMED

James Risner

@Catija it’s also only related to winter bash?

Steffan

@Catija Do you have to ask a question for This is the Way?

It's what it seems like

Tetsujin

@Machavity I only just jumped in here, I haven't seen prior chat. Thought I'd just add my recent experience on a stack I don't usually use a great deal, so my activity is more discrete, rather than one of several dozen interactions in a day.

Catija

Didn't someone confirm the Defender hat in here last night? It hasn't changed from last year.

Tetsujin

17:58

@Catija It's not been added to the meta list yet - meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384707/…

Machavity

@Tetsujin I just meant that they hadn't confirmed that part yet. Which Catija apparently just did

Catija

Defender is something like post a bug/fr about WB on MSE that gets status-completed.

James Risner

@Catija thought so, but confused/misremembered it as not requiring complete

Catija

I don't think it actually cares about the bug/fr tag, just the status completed tag and winter-bash tag of some flavor.

@Steffan Yes.

(sorry, wrong message)

SPArcheon

@Catija I only now noticed that the hat rack header picture has one character in the Summer version and one in the Winter version.

Steffan

18:03

Oh great. I can never think of anything to ask on CGCC.

SPArcheon

Yet the color of the background is mostly winter theme. A pity, few will probably notice the thing. Maybe you should have added a little orange too...

Dan Bonachea

18:39

Has anyone figured out how to earn the Tourist hat on a site where you already have the Informed badge?

mousetail

I don't think it's possible

Ginger

^

Machavity

Yeah, I had to go to a new site and take the tour

Dan Bonachea

Lame.

Catija

18:56

@DanBonachea You're going to hurt someone's feelings.

double-beep

19:14

@Catija 5? (similar to thought bubble from last year)

Catija

@double-beep Assume I'm too lazy to follow replies... can you make the full guess?

double-beep

Chatterbox: 5 distinct blocks of messages sent in one room in 1 day

Catija

@double-beep Yes

Ginger

@Catija aw darn yall added sanity checks to the hat settings

Catija

Sanity checks?

Ginger

19:23

@Catija I can't make the hats stupidly large or move them really far away

Catija

Ah.

Ginger

sad

Catija

I just wish the rotator wouldn't disappear when it was out of the modal.

Ginger

I wanted to have a verification checkmark multiple times the size of my profile

and then I'd set my pfp to Elon Musk :p

wait, yall have access to the hat DB

@Catija any chance you can reconfigure my checkmark to be very large?

nohillside

@Catija Not sure how this gets counted, but I see seven bubbles from me in the Ask Different Chat yesterday. Should I raise this as a bug?

Ginger

19:25

@nohillside when'd you send them? it might be a timing issue

(as in UTC might've rolled over in the middle)

Catija

@Ginger No

nohillside

@Ginger I'm in UTC+1

Ginger

@Catija yeah, I thought not

worth a try! :b

James Risner

@Catija the spoiler for unicorn doesn’t mention WB? Should it be added?

Catija

I mean... I'm not the one updating that page, so if you want it to be correct... probably?

Ginger

19:29

whoopsies

must've'd missed it

lemme add that in

Catija

Also, could someone update the images for the ones that break the Geneva convention?

Ginger

@Catija lol, sure

double-beep

@Catija unflagging: comment on a post that is later edited by the OP?

Catija

No

starball

19:58

@Catija is it... for accepting an answer?

James Risner

Any ideas on running at the hill?

starball

@Catija is everything everywhere all at once related to wearing different hats on different sites?

@JamesRisner I'm guessing it's another stranger things reference? I didn't know the song, and I haven't watched stranger things, but it seems to be a significant element of the story. googling the song shows a particular scene. it's one of the character's favourite songs

One of my guesses was that it had to do with "favourite" things, so I tried visiting a couple of my saved posts, but that didn't do anything (not surprised)

Catija

@starball no

starball

@Catija just to spice things up (since you're handling a lot of hat questions), how have you been doing this past week? Is there anything you're looking forward to in the next few days? (no need to answer if you don't want)

Catija

20:25

Today's my kids' last day of school, so the next two+ weeks are going to be hard. You'd think "there's only two of them... how can it be harder than hundreds of people on a website"... but it is. I'd much rather be dealing with SE than my kids. :P

starball

20:37

@Catija As a kid I never thought or even heard of how hard it is for parents when kids don't have school. Now I'm a bit more grown up that people tell me about it. I don't know what to say :P

I guess when you're dealing with people on SE, you also have a team of coworkers and other staff to help you figure things out?

Dan Bonachea

We used to ask "why is there a Father's day and a Mother's day but no Kids day?"

To which of course the answer is "every day is Kid's day"

Catija

^^^

starball

@Catija Ah- the one thing I can think of to say: "add oil!" (a phrase for encouragement and support)

Catija

@starball I think it's more like "it's easier to reason with people online or just walk away and ignore them than it is to reason with or ignore a 4 and 6 year old."

starball

@Catija xD true

b_jonas

20:45

@DanBonachea there's no kids' day because the eastern bloc called it "International Children's Day" and then in the backlash after 1989 people decided that anything the old regime did is bad and has to be changed

starball

21:32

@Catija is "over 9000" for earning a gold badge?

Catija

no

starball

@Catija is that somewhat close to the trigger?

Catija

NO

sorry.

No

starball

21:47

ok thanks for answering! let me know if I'm annoying you and I'll stop

Dan Bonachea

So @Catija can you confirm the intention is the Verified hat is awarded for 10 chat room posts with a star?

Catija

I mean, you'll get it for 10 but you don't need 10.

Dan Bonachea

So the Verified hat is awarded for 9 chat room posts with a star?

starball

@DanBonachea nonono this is not how you do a binary search!

Andrew T.

I just got Over 9000! on... Anime.SE :/

Dan Bonachea

21:52

@starball I already guessed 8 in a different room after it was awarded to me with that count, this is the "end" of the binary search

Catija

@DanBonachea That's not my reading of the situation.

in Winter Bash Starring Room - Stack Overflow on Stack Overflow Chat, 13 mins ago, by Dan Bonachea

So a number of starred messages greater than 1 and less than 8?

Last I checked, less than 8 is non-inclusive of 8.

Kadir Şahbaz

@starball I guess it is about a question reachs 9000 (maybe 9001) views during Winter Bash. I mean you have a question with 8999 views and then it is 9001 during winter bash.

Catija

The 9000 is a red herring.

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Dan Bonachea

So @Catija can you confirm the intention is the Verified hat is awarded for 8 chat room posts with a star?

Catija

I was going to say...

Andrew T.

21:55

Oh, I just thought 9000 is the total characters of edits...

Catija

@DanBonachea Yes. But can you guess why?

starball

@Catija the $8 twitter verified thing?

Catija

Yes

starball

woot!

Andrew T.

I mean, yeah, it's not supposed to 9000, but 8000...

Catija

21:57

Which is why I've been banging my head on the table while y'all kept guessing 10.

starball

@AndrewT. in true anime user fashion- corrects the number

Catija

It's been too long since I watched DBZ

starball

@KadirŞahbaz anime.stackexchange.com/users/2516/… and Andrew doesn't have any questions on anime.se that seem to have recently hit 9k views

Kadir Şahbaz

@Glorfindel and @Akixkisu have the hat. They have questions over 9000-9500 views. And I guess the questions reached 9000 views during winter bash. Especially this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/357915/…

only a guess.

starball

sonic also has it

Andrew T.

22:03

so, what I recently did on Anime.SE:
- approved an edit
- edited both Q&A
- chat on Anime.SE-parented room
- have a lingering chat ping
- posted on Meta.Anime.SE
:?

starball

@AndrewT. on which meta? anime.m.se?

Andrew T.

yeah, clarified

Kadir Şahbaz

22:18

@starball right. dead end. :(

starball

what new features have been added this year?

is the new editor from this year?

Dan Bonachea

@Catija @Catija here are some constructive ideas: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384861

Andrew T.

Is Over 9000! related to editing a post containing number?

James Risner

@starball you got the unicorn? But don’t have a meta account? How?

starball

@JamesRisner go search me in /users :)

James Risner

22:24

Oh hidden?

starball

@JamesRisner yep. hidden to see if it would give me "the king's new clothes"

sadly it has not

but it does sort of make it harder to analyze my activity during winter bash. But I don't think that really helps. All the trickly hats we don't know how they work yet I don't have.

Catija

@DanBonachea You also can't get Miranda, I'm assuming. :P

Kadir Şahbaz

Or reach 9000 people during WB. I don't know.

Catija

38 mins ago, by Catija

The 9000 is a red herring.

starball

>9k doesn't seem to be about edits, since yennefer doesn't have any recent edits

probably not about accepts either, (also yennefer)

Kadir Şahbaz

22:38

After flagging tens of "thanks" comments, got Flagging, Unflagging and Emperor's hats. Many of them were removed immediately. I retracted some.

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starball

@KadirŞahbaz you got emperor!?

from flagging!?

Kadir Şahbaz

@starball I don't know. Before getting Emperor, I was flagging (no longer needed) "thanks" comments.

starball

@KadirŞahbaz :O good to know

Kadir Şahbaz

Also I was editing posts.

And also was deleting my unnecessary comments under my answers.

starball

@KadirŞahbaz :O

Akixkisu

22:45

@KadirŞahbaz I think I got this one after the day rolled over. So also might be related to any end of day triggers.

starball

I'm looking at 5 users who have >9k:
https://stackexchange.com/users/3359942/destruction-account-test?tab=activity
https://stackexchange.com/users/6085540/glorfindel?tab=activity
https://stackexchange.com/users/13618598/akixkisu?tab=activity
https://stackexchange.com/users/1192385/zsb%c3%a1n-ambrus?tab=activity
https://stackexchange.com/users/12561968/yennefer?tab=activity

James Risner

@KadirŞahbaz yes I’ve gotten unflagging from flagging no longer needed. But they consistently say it’s not from flagging. How many you do when got empor?

Akixkisu

Dragon Ball is also known for ending on a cliffhanger on many episodes, so it would make some sense.

James Risner

@starball you working on over 9000? @Catija has consistently said it’s nothing that adds up to 9000.

starball

all of the people who have >9k have made [tag:discussion] posts on site metas recently:
https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4563/70615
https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/384707/997587
https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/q/12292/79881
https://scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/13814/159649
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/422157/11107541

but I'm really not confident that that's the right direction.

I tried looking at timestamps for the post creation: 12, 16, 17, 18, 21 IIRC (UTC)

Kadir Şahbaz

22:49

@JamesRisner In the last two days, 30+ flags, 11 retracted flags.

James Risner

@KadirŞahbaz I’m at 200 (100 each day) but probably less than 11 retracted

I flag after the day switchover. You before?

Marco Bonelli

@starball that's some nice detective work

Now onto finding one that did but does not have the hat...

Kadir Şahbaz

@JamesRisner 30+ and 11 during WB.

starball

23:05

@MarcoBonelli not a counterexample, but JonClement has the >9k hat. they recently made a discussion post on MSO (standing down as mod). post is also featured

James Risner

stackoverflow.com/users/637987/vaillancourt?tab=topactivity

Do they have 9000 views on something?

Marco Bonelli

Didn't Catija say that the number 9000 is a red herring?

Catija

At least twice.

Maybe they don't know what a red herring is?

starball

@Catija maybe you just need to say it <strike>more times</strike> over a certain number of times...

Kadir Şahbaz

@MarcoBonelli I just learned what red herring means. :))

starball

23:15

I have a guess on what >9k is: is:question [discussion] created:2022-12-15.. score:1... not sure about the details of the score threshold (I have some suspicion of >9).

@JamesRisner look where they got the hat. then look at gamedev.meta.stackexchange.com/…

time to think of some good discussion posts I think!

Marco Bonelli

By the way "Running Up That Hill" is the lyrics of a song that gets played in Stranger Things S4, and one of the characters (Eddie) has exactly the same hair as the hat. So... it's probably got something to do with him? (╭ರ_•́)

starball

the score of this is just 2 right now.

so I'd consider my suspicion of >9 score busted

maybe it is just positive score

Marco Bonelli

Hmm well a post with a score of "2" is considered "helpful"

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