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00:04
Been quiet. Hope everyone's having a good break.
00:18
Bored in hatless
00:57
@SPArcheon You can fail the test on purpose
And get both
01:40
@Catija trying to find answers the last quiz. Im failing, as you would imagine of a more of less newbie to the main Meta and its surrounding major sites. Don't expect to much of me: I have way too less hats, and I really feel like thats a disappointment.
02:31
@Catija Any hints on the differences between Emperor and Running Up That Hill? Cause the triggers appear to be distinct and a user can get one hat without the other.
 
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04:01
@U12-Forward I think they were emphasizing the cool-factor of passing the quiz on the first try. my respect to anyone who achieves that.
 
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05:38
Can you get "Explorer" for asking your first question on meta sites?
06:15
@starball The real cool-factor comes in being able to answer all the questions on the quiz correctly without having to look anything up! :-)
I did pretty well... I think I only had to look up two of them, which were the two that asked for specific numbers. (Maybe it was 3. I took the quiz last night, so I forget the details.)
06:26
@Panda Finally got Emperor
the post must have a positive score
and must be yours
+1 should work
@CodyGray okay I'm going to make a bug report that the "Yes, a Robot" hat isn't given for not having to search to know the answers to the quiz questions. Cody is a robot confirmed.
Doesn't the diamond already testify to that?
if that's a somwhat-inside/historical-joke, I probably don't get it because I'm effectively like- 6 months old on SE :P
hi Mith!
Ah. I didn't think it required a lot of historical context. The joke is just that, at the scale of Stack Overflow, moderating it effectively tends to require some robot-like abilities. It's been a joke for some time that SO mods are basically all robots.
@starball \o
06:39
I SUCK AT THE QUIZ AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
i failed like 10 times already lol
Haha. Which question are you struggling with?
@Mithical /o
Everyone one of them apart from the suggesting edits rep thing, and thats like it
@double-beep Nice! I think Running is the harder one though, I'm still unable to get it.
Inductees in the Hall of Fame of security? Can i not count?
@Stevo something something set size?
06:44
I figured that one would be a trick, like perhaps the same person would have been inducted multiple times for different reports, but no... there's no trick.
turns out i cannot actually count: For those Mods out there, you could confirm lol
@starball found the website, just not able to count
@CodyGray I still can't even wrap my head around how this is possible
@starball Yes, a robot lol
@starball I've been here a while. :-)
Me officially failing, and getting yes a robot:
realises you can try again
06:46
To me, the quiz was shockingly easy. Getting there was quite a struggle!
COMPLETING REVIEWS MINDLESSLY MAN I DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO MOST REVIEWS
Err... don't complete reviews mindlessly.
@CodyGray Well, I mean, I got the opposite. Getting there was not bad, needed 1 tiny hint to get forward, the quiz is killing me, why? I haven't been on Stack Exchange for that long.
Yeah, it definitely is much easier if you've been around Stack Exchange for a while, reading Meta, etc.
But that and other answers are all pretty easily findable by searching MSO and/or MSE.
and that is something a more or less newbie wouldn't know.
@CodyGray right, time to copy paste the question
06:49
Heh. Arguably a newbie would be more likely to know what someone who completes reviews mindlessly is called, because they've probably been called that. :-p
Hey, I've done good reviews only... right? Idk really, but I haven't been called that. Mainly because First Answers/Questions aren't the harder ones. Just got access to suggested edits, idk tho
If you've read the FAQ on MSO about reviewing, you'd know the answer. :-)
MSO? I main PSE :-P
Ah. Well, I bet it's on MSE, too. I just have an encyclopedic knowledge of MSO.
I am, also, old enough that I immediately read "PSE" as "Programmers.SE", which is the old name for "Software Engineering.SE".
@CodyGray woah woah woah, that caught me off guard lol
Good old faq
AHA!
for the renaming and upgrading, which i know, do i write the old name or the new name?
ig both are fine
oh well, now im stuck again. AI!! SO says its in 2014, but its wrong.
07:01
The AI site didn't exist in 2014.
Highest AI question. I misunderstood it as a tag, not a website
07:18
clearly on Area 51 it says Cardano was the newest site launched. Apparantly not.
Hmm. Area 51 is drawing a distinction between "launched" and "beta".
This is annoying. Area 51: WHY
It's not an Area 51 problem. It's imprecise language in the quiz, I think.
Oh, right ic, the newly site into public beta
There is another way to find all sites on the Stack Exchange network, and it does not draw that distinction.
07:24
Got that, thanks!
damn the next question. Saw it on meta, about being removed. Forgot the name
@CodyGray oh great. Finally found out what you mean. Now I look like an idiot for going on Area 51.
Haha, no. I agree that is definitely imprecise phrasing in the quiz. Arguably even wrong, although I think there have been recent changes to the site-launching process that make the "beta" distinction less relevant than it used to be.
I stopped paying attention. The last thing we need is a dozen more crypto sites... :-|
07:51
Oh no, what tool was used to answer many questions!
Keyboards, I think.
3
... wait actually?
08:45
@Stevo What was banned on Stack Overflow recently?
 
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09:52
I got Shakuntala, should get Gregorio and Hedy tomorrow.
I am so close to K-Pop lol
10:24
@U12-Forward :O nice!
I have two first meta posts with score of 2 now. Either I still need to wait, or meta posts cannot give you "Explorer"
@starball Ah
@starball Where?
Posts on MSE can earn you hats on MSE. Posts on other Meta sites, like MSO, don't count for hats.
But you have other questions on MSE already before
To my great chagrin every year. If you could earn hats on MSO, I'd be all over that.
@CodyGray Haha
 
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13:06
@CodyGray what is the definition of an "Active site" ? I find similar but yet slightly different numbers between the Winter Bash Leaderboard, the SE About us page, the SE Tour page and the list of 'all sites' on SE
@XaC You're talking about the Sparkles quiz question? It just means SE sites that are "live", accessible, accepting posts.
So, not sites that have been shut down, not sites that are in private beta, or anything like that.
13:30
@starball mse needs 8 for over 9000 but only 2 for non-mse meta sites apparently
 
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14:38
room topic changed to Winter / Summer Bash 2022: Hat hunting and general discussion about winterbash2022.stackexchange.com. WARNING: May contain spoilers for secret hats and Sparkles! [winter-bash] [winter-bash-2022]
15:11
@CodyGray Thanks!
 
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17:01
@Panda They are. One is all on you, one can require someone else.
17:26
Can someone please help with the Unicorn puzzle? Per Slate's hint it seems that I got the correct sequence of letters but am unsure how to proceed. I tried using Anagram solvers but got nothing.
@Xnero They thought of that. The page name has two words (per the hints they give you on the decoded message)
As a further hint, the page is adjectivenoun. I figured out the adjective first and an anagram solver figured out the noun
 
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19:20
@U12-Forward true, but since there is no timestamp on the hats, then you have no way to show off the order you got them, meaning you lose the only proof that you got all questions right on the first try.
 
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22:47
@Catija Do you consider a mod marking a flag as helpful / declined as “requiring someone else”?

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