Winter / Summer Bash 2022

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starball

02:49

@DrewReese /dev/null hehe

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Diki Ananta

06:10

Which URL should I use when guessing the last puzzle?

Is it here https://winterbash2022.stackexchange.com/lorem-ipsum or here https://winterbash2022.stackexchange.com/visit-sparkles/lorem-ipsum? Thanks

Stevo

funny thing is you got the wrong url anyways

Diki Ananta

Lol. Is it on Meta Stack Exchange?

I want to guess some words I found but I have to enters two URLs :')

Cody Gray

07:04

@DikiAnanta The former. All URLs that you enter need to be at the second level of the hierarchy, immediately under https://winterbash2022.stackexchange.com, not nested more deeply.

It'll be the same thing when you come to the next puzzle. :-)

I actually think that's a bug, especially on the puzzle where you have to enter the access key.

starball

@DikiAnanta this is why I brute forced xD

@CodyGray right? (said as in agreement)

Cody Gray

Be careful when you start to agree with me :-p

Drew Reese

07:38

Agreed, it wasn't clear where the "key" should be entered. I just tried "/lorem-ipsum/<key>" and "/<key>" each time until I got the right combination.

Diki Ananta

Oh god. There is a key, too

Cody Gray

Yup: The Key

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Criggie

11:07

Interesting - if you wear a hat "for this site only" it doesn't apply to that site's chat room

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Alexander L. Hayes

15:50

Finally got Running, but no Emperor. Emperor might be >4 flagged comments on a positive-scoring post, the most I could delete was 3.

Looks like @JamesRisner is the only one in the top-10 with "Emperor but no Running" and I'm the only one in the top-10 with "Running but no Emperor."

James Risner

16:30

@AlexanderL.Hayes the triggers (at least pretty sure) are:

running is remove all of your comments on X posts where no comments exist other than yours . X > 20 to 30

These need to be 365 days old or older

Emperor is Remove all your comments and flag all other comments and have them marked helpful

For 10 or more I believe

I can’t get running, I’m 3 months old from being only a viewer (no comments, posts, votes)

Alexander L. Hayes

16:59

"Daily comment flag limit reached; please try again in 7 hours" 😂

I'm up to all comments on 12 positive-scored posts marked helpful and 2 positive-scored posts pending.

3x 0-score all marked helpful, 3 0-score pending.

Emperor and Running are bizarre, like what random assortment of actions would compel someone to figure those out in the first place?

James Risner

17:29

Only works on posts scoring 1+

@AlexanderL.Hayes we never pinned it down close enough to get it reconfirmed

But it is reproducible

I got empower on under 30 posts

Maybe rephrase: emperor is remove both X number of your comments (X>0) and Y number of comments of others (Y>0) on a post that is score 1+ do this Z times

Alexander L. Hayes

I'm up to all comments removed from 15 posts with 1+.

I haven't tracked how many of my own comments I've removed. I don't frequently comment on my own posts.

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James Risner

19:15

You get no credit if you have not commented

But if the 15 had comments form you and others, do double as much

@Catija are all the hats been found?

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