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12:02 AM
@FlagAsSpam did you just...
wow
also morning
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC Morning. I caught up on CR.
 
are you challenging the hat maniac man
(cool beans)
 
I say I am winning because I can't get the two app-related hats.
 
ah, yeah. you have the up hat and monkey hat
 
Up hat?
 
12:07 AM
Carl Fredricksen, you know from Up
 
aka 'up' vote hat
 
Oh, you never got him?
 
not on CR
I'd get one random downvote every time
 
Oh.
 
I would've got it that day that I posted the dogescript question, but
I posted a dogescript question (lol)
Up is a 2009 American 3D computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Directed by Pete Docter, the film centers on an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen (Edward Asner) and an earnest young Wilderness Explorer named Russell (Jordan Nagai). By tying thousands of balloons to his home, 78-year-old Carl sets out to fulfill his dream to see the wilds of South America and to complete a promise made to his late wife, Ellie. The film was co-directed by Bob Peterson, with music composed by Michael Giacchino. Docter began working on the story in 2004...
you know
 
12:12 AM
No, I don't.
It sounds interesting, though.
 
I remember psychologists using the film's plot to explain Maslow's hierarchy of needs
 
Vote Early, Vote Often - Mine!!!!1
 
nice!
I should be right behind you.
 
I lost it the day I went birding. I need one more day.
 
12:58 AM
Vote Early Vote Often - Mine!
@Quill-HATMANIAC I passed you!
 
CR is the only one that counts.
 
lol
 
you got the vote one
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC Don't worry, you'll get recognized on the cumulative post, and I won't.
@Quill-HATMANIAC You have the two app ones.
 
1:00 AM
I've already DVLRd
 
I just did 14 votes today.
 
 
I'm #9 on the network. Not too bad.
 
yep, I'm happy with it.
Just wanted first on BSE, first page is also a goal of mine.
 
1:06 AM
@David cool
I am not competing anymore
So don't worry, just accidental hats here on out
 
although you will tie me when you get the vote hat again.
@HATMAN why?
 
@HATMAN Why not? I thought I wasn't but I decided to cap today needing 120 rep within 4 hours.
And that put me up next to Quill, and I was already working for the vote hat.
 
I need to cap today as well
I already have the cap 3 days hat on MSE
but for CR would be cool
 
me too, who doesn't?
 
It is the holidays. Time to chill with family that I don't get to see very often.
I think I extracted a good bit of fun from it already too ;)
 
1:09 AM
@HATMAN see my answer about that
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A: How do I tell my family they need to give me more free time to get hats?

Quill - HAT MANIACWhy not internet hat with them? Instead of spending time apart, eagerly hunting hats by yourself, hunt together! Sit them up on your lap, and they can help you out! Say: "Look little Sarah, there's a new hat called Edward Edwards. What do you think is the trigger?" Then, little Sarah can help ...

also @randal'thor ^ I'm getting explorer on that first
 
Good thoughts
I'll get explorer in a day or two
 
Explorer?
 
@Hosch250 ask or answer (and get 3 UVs) on a site new to you
 
Oh. I'm not going for that.
 
@Hosch250 you dont read the hat descriptions do you?
 
1:17 AM
@David I did, but I forget them
 
@Hosch250 :) t'is a busy time.
 
1:44 AM
@Quill-HATMANIAC Yes, I did.
 
it's a shame there's not a shoe hat named that
 
ok guys, I found a easy way to get the grace hat. If you have any meta post, posted during the bash that has 10 UVs and an answer with 10 UVs; just edit it to include the bug tag.
 
lol
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC ROFL. What a question, and what an answer! :-D
 
@David How long does it take?
 
1:47 AM
@HATMAN dont know for sure, I saw it in 7 mins
 
ok
 
does that mean you just edited one?
 
uh
yes
:P
took 30 seconds
 
hmm, must just be the difference in when we did it in relation to when the hat dispatch bot runs.
 
?
oh
I mean the edit took 30 seconds
 
1:50 AM
@HATMAN O, I see.
@HATMAN no no no, posted during the bash
 
whoooooooooooooooooops
 
@HATMAN this is the only one you have that would work meta.stackexchange.com/questions/270981/…
 
doed
 
I saw
 
You pair of cheaters :-P
 
1:52 AM
this is definitely bending the SE rules way out of line.
 
lol
 
@randal'thor hey, give me some credit, I thought of this great trick.
 
XD
We will edit them back
 
I didnt on mine, I might leave it.
@HATMAN now I want to try that on meta.BSE
 
I don't have a question that qualifies :-(
The closest is this (which got me Sun Wukong), but it needs 5 more upvotes and 1 on the top answer.
 
1:54 AM
@HATMAN you got it, edit if you want
 
I just did ;)
 
@randal'thor I dont have the sun...
@HATMAN 4th!
 
I'm not a real big meta user. I post on CR when the mods aren't on it like a flash.
 
@David Drat, you've overtaken me on the network leaderboard now!
 
:)
 
1:57 AM
Edited. @HATMAN was always ahead.
Hence the username, I guess.
 
:P
 
@randal'thor I think I have been ahead of you all day.
 
@David Nope, I was on 23 when you were still on 22 at some point.
I was the only 23-er after I got my Cleanup Crew and El Dorado today.
 
must of been my lift hat
 
Does the amazing grace hat need to be posted on the main meta, or would any site meta also work?
 
2:03 AM
Haven't tried the other metas yet
 
we should keep that quiet....
 
I didn't see it :P
 
@X-27 any site meta
one of the guys to get it got it on MSO
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC Thanks :-)
 
2:18 AM
this is probably a dup, but if I just get 10 UVs, I'll have a hat-qualifying question.
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Q: Why doesn't the reputation cap out at 200 per day?

X-27I am aware that earned bounties are not taken into effect when capping off the daily reputation at 200. However, I was recently looking at reputation graphs for a few users, and Jon Skeet earned 871 reputation in one day. True, he did earn a bounty worth 400 reputation on that day. (Friday, March...

 
Accepts do not count
 
@HATMAN @David ranted in the renderfarm that he wasn't getting rep from votes on his accepted answers, which severely confused me (I thought that too, before today)
 
Just the 15 from the actual accept does not count
All votes count and will be limited
 
Ahh.
 
 
10 hours later…
12:21 PM
So I ended up getting Onion Knight from that Lifehacks question
 
 
4 hours later…
4:30 PM
@Quill-HATMANIAC have we figured out what the trigger is?
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Q: Problem With ia32-libs-raring.list when attempting to install software

Mahfuz Ahmed likhonWhen I tried to install ia32-libs on Ubuntu 15.04 it gives me this error: N: Ignoring file 'ia32-libs-raring.list' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension N: Ignoring file 'ia32-libs-raring.list' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid...

one vote away from turning that question from -2 to +1. I wonder if there's a hat for that.
 
 
2 hours later…
6:04 PM
I just want to add another data point to the quest of figuring out the Onion Knight hat. I just got Onion Knight from this question about two hours ago. It was already well over the apparent vote requirements for the hat, and had been on the HNQ list for most of the previous day, but at around 2-3 hours ago was the first time that the highest-voted answer hit the same score as my question.
So, Onion Knight probably has a condition that the question earning it has an answer with a score greater than or equal to its own.
Throwing my hat in the ring for trying to predict the full conditions: Onion Knight is perhaps awarded to questions with score 5+, that make the HNQ list, with an answer that has a score greater than or equal to that of the question.
Or: Onion Knight is perhaps awarded to questions with score 5+, with an answer that has a score greater than or equal to that of the question, which receive more votes since making it onto the HNQ list than they had before they hit the HNQ list.
Just a couple of possible theories.
 
6:21 PM
@Seth low views to high views kinda thing
not 100%
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC Are we sure it's a view thing?
Or does the hat have criteria closely enough matched to the HNQ criteria that it just ends up getting lots of views anyway, despite that not necessarily being one of the explicit conditions?
 
6:39 PM
yeah, I don't think it's a HNQ thing
 
I just got explorer!
 
cause I got it on PPCG with a question that didn't hit the HNQ
I'm guessing it's a view related thing because I asked a Lifehacks question
and it went like four hours at like 2 upvotes
and then it got traction and went to like 7 or 8 with like 8 answers
It may be an answer thing too
If you want to see them, check out the only questions on my PPCG and Lifehacks accounts
Awesome, @HATMAN!
in The 2nd Monitor, 7 mins ago, by RubberDuck
Nice answer Jon! Tell Abby I said hello. — RubberDuck 1 min ago
LOL
it's also about time I release It's Over 9000
 
You know how to get it?
 
see my hat
 
Cool, so you got the tub for it?
 
6:46 PM
I'd assume so
Although I may have contributed in Amazing Grace
Pops never told me which
 
Ah
 
But he never responded with a No to my It's Over 9000 theory
 
So it is probably correct then
 
I told, um, one of you what you should do to figure it out
but I can't remember who
let me just transcript a second
 
k
 
6:48 PM
yesterday, by Quill - HAT MANIAC
@david yeah, all I can say is read the data files. I found the last one particularly helpful
around about there in the transcript
 
Santa's Decision http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/66973?atw=1 #codegolf
Maybe this contributed to your It's Over 9000! thingy.
 
huh
 
I don't have the It's Over 9000 hat
 
(I may've misread chat, ignore all the things)
 
I solved it, just don't have it
 
6:53 PM
(I meant Onion Knight. :D)
 
I don't see any new data on 5-o-clock and flying tiger, is there any?
 
I also got Onion Knight from:
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Q: Efficient method to pop every bubble on a sheet of bubble wrap

Quill - HAT MANIACI'm wondering - what's the most efficient way to pop every bubble on a sheet of bubble wrap. I've tried: jumping on it, seems to hit massive patches but misses some systematically working row by row, I usually lose my place anyway and my fingers usually hurt before I can finish going row by ro...

 
If it's worth consideration, my question didn't get Amazing Grace.
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Q: Hats Load on Pages, but don't always go away

FlagAsSpamI had an interesting problem with hats loading oddly this afternoon: When I changed the hats on a separate tab, the hats loaded in, but never left, which was awkward for all of us. I was running Safari 9.0.2 (11601.3.9) on Mac OS X El Capitan with no add ons when the bug occurred.

Do we know what Amazing Grace is yet?
 
The answer has to get +10
 
It did.
It got +12.
 
6:55 PM
The answer
 
^^
 
Ohhhh.
 
> The answer
reads question
 
upvotes
I'm good at words and stuff.
 
edit the question, make it appear in the feed
Alright!
released
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A: Winter Bash 2015 Secret Hats

Quill - HAT MANIACIt's Over 9000 Archimedes given to Author of this post The image is a scouter from Dragonball.

 
7:06 PM
\o/
 
I found it from one of the Travel.SE guys to get it
They got it, despite only having 2 questions
each question had 3500ish views
so yeah, it clicked and I emailed pops
 
7:25 PM
To clarify: To get the "Speedy Delivery" hat you need to "answer within 30 minutes of the question being asked, scoring 3 and getting accepted" You only have to answer within the 30 mins, the accept and UVs can come after the 30 mins.
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@Quill-HATMANIAC wow, I was off track on that one. bummer.
 
7:49 PM
Weed Eater attempt:
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Q: Add Numbers under UISlider

JessicaI have a UISlider I implemented with JQuery UI. I want to add a legend under the slider showing the numbers. I followed this answer which showed how to implement that, placing then numbers with percentage values. This way when the sliders size changes, (ex. browser gets resized,) the numbers are ...

That qualifies, right?
I know there was been some confusion around the hat, so I wasn't really sure...
 
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A: What are the requirements to get the "Weed Eater" hat?

balphaTo be very explicit, the question has to qualify for the Tumbleweed badge at the time the answer is posted. There is one exception however, which is that the number of views is disregarded. Because we don't track historical view count data, it's not possible to say whether a question had 60 views...

@JoshCrozier It sure looks like that qualifes to me.
 
@David Great, thanks. I didn't realize you asked that question :)
 
yep, after my first attempt did not get me the hat.
 
Run it over with a Steamroller? — David Hoelzer 19 secs ago
talk about overkill
 
You should all up vote this because stuffs. :D
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A: Hats Load on Pages, but don't always go away

balphaThere was an issue in the Winter Bash code that could cause old hats to not be removed when they're being replaced with new ones if the page contains elements that look like they may contain avatars but actually don't. This is fixed now.

 
7:58 PM
@FlagAsSpam lol, because grace :)
done
 
Done.. it's at 10 now
 
\o/
 
hat for you
 
PS if you all could send some UVs my way over on blender, this will be my third day to rep cap. :)
 
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That was more text than I originally thought. o.o
 
8:01 PM
what is that?
O, you have to zoom out to see it. It is a woman wearing a hat.
 
You guys seem very generous. Care to help me with some UVs ? I want to Live in the Future too :) meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/255806/…
 
@Eran sure, but only if you help me cap :)
 
@David No problem. I'll have to join that site. What is this Blender all about?
 
me too:
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Q: What is the etymology of the term “Bumfiddler”?

Quill - HAT MANIACI heard about about the term 'bumfiddler' from a E-Newsletter I receive, and I was wondering the etymology of this term? Is it a purely sexual phrase, or does it have a more mainstream / normal usage? This website seems to define it as: Noun: - A busybody / fidgety person. Is, or shoul...

@Eran It's a 3D modelling software
 
@Eran a 3D program for creating anything, and everything.
 
8:05 PM
I have 3dsmax and Autocad experience, but I've never tried Blender
I hear it's good though
 
It has gotten very good, to a point where pixar and others are using it.
 
was that bear short story made in blender?
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC what one?
 
I can't remember exactly
but some small animals troll a bear, and he sets up traps and gets them back
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC O, that was a bunny and YES that was blender. Big Buck Bunny
 
8:09 PM
oh it looked like a bear
 
How do you guys post links to questions and answers?
 
um post them in chat as the link
 
And how do I do that? I tried the text format mentioned in the FAQ
 
Go to the page, click "Share", copy link, paste.
 
Are you asking Markdown wise or Chat wise?
 
8:16 PM
Chat wise...?
 
@Eran just copy the link out of the share button for Q and A, for comments right click on the timestamp and "copy link" then past that, nothing else into the chat
 
It still doesn't look right
 
@Eran that would work, now send that as it own message
 
3
A: Sponsored Tags and Tag Synonyms

EranNobody answered this question, so I might as well do it myself. If the sponsor (which I assume is Google) prefers to sponsor google-cloud-messaging, should this become the "main" GCM tag, and the other two become synonyms of it? Aparantly, the answer to that is yes. google-cloud-messaging b...

 
8:17 PM
see
 
Oh, thanks :)
Now I only need to more UVs.
 
wow I just remembered I can't get Explorer on the ELL question because I deleted one ages ago ;-;
 
@David Are you the David this room is named after, or is it another David?
 
Dec 14 at 4:36, by David
@Pops I sure am!
 
In this corner we have the one and only RO... DAVID!! *crowd goes wild*
@pops asking for someone else, can we have a tomato hat next year?
 
8:22 PM
@Quill-HATMANIAC RO?
and I'm that popular?
 
Room Owner
 
And I was hoping it was named after my father
 
ah
@Eran sure we can go with that
 
@David great :)
 
@Eran do you know what Q you got your onion hat on?
 
8:27 PM
I got two Onion hats :-)
 
@David Yes, The SE Secret Hats questions. I got about 10 hats for that question and its answers
 
@Eran 10! I got to ask that next year!
 
did you guys see my It's Over 9000 post
@David good luck! I'll get there first!
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC I did. Maybe I'll get there before the end of Winter Bash
 
I was like, nah, I can't ask anything that interesting
is the explorer hat for over 3 or on 3
 
8:33 PM
@Quill-HATMANIAC The description says 3.
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC UVed to 3
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC I can't think of anything to ask in order to get the Explorer hat.
 
I have a +7 and +20 question but no +3 questions
@Eran ask something specific on Gaming.SE
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC I think 3 means at least 3
 
@Eran pretty much anything starwars will get you the 9000 hat.
 
8:35 PM
I suppose we'll se at StackMidnight
2
 
@David I didn't watch it yet. I don't want to see any spoilers
 
oo, I just though of a starwars Q to ask on blender :)
 
and I thought of a starwars q to ask on movies
 
Do you guys think there are more secret hats out there? The current 12 make a total hat count of 40, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's it.
 
I would assume there's two or three more
WOW
So a while ago, somebody did a troll spoiler on Movies
and it got edited
and now it's a HNQ
 
8:47 PM
...damn, son.
> we'll SE - was this on purpose?
 
here it is :) let the starwars views come!
0
Q: How do I rig a BB-8 robot?

DavidI have made a BB-8 robot from the new The Force Awakens starwars movie, now I want to rig it so the head will stay on top when I move the body. Here is some reference footage of what it looks like moving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYxqMcc1rE Further how can I make the body rotate when ...

anybody know good places to publish the link, to get lots of views?
 
Mos Eisley
just be careful
 
@David Youtube.
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC congrats, your first edit on BSE.
 
8:58 PM
I have edits on most SE sites, Parenting even
 
What is Blender?
 
56 mins ago, by David
@Eran a 3D program for creating anything, and everything.
 
Oh, damn.
 
@FlagAsSpam something you use to slice up food really fast
 
Let's make a computer running Blender in Blender that has a blender design on it. :D
 
9:02 PM
@FlagAsSpam why?
 
@David I need 3D graphics design experience. :P
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC we have gotten question about that type on our site. :)
 
I'd imagine there'd be trolls that would post that kind of thing
 
We've had something along the lines of "Halp how I juce Avocado"...
 
@FlagAsSpam not really, I dont, and can use it fine. There is a big difference from graphics design, or even traditional art to 3D
@Quill-HATMANIAC it was actually a mistake, yet very funny.
 
9:05 PM
Here's hoping for It's Over 9000
in The Nineteenth Byte, 38 secs ago, by FlagAsSpam
@AlexA. Currently a rant on ridiculous questions that SE sites have gotten before in David's hat store.
oh
 
I wish to show the world the Avocado question. :D
 
lol
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC I viewed it.
 
yeah! 8999 to go!
2
A: Is there any evidence that this person is Finn's father?

rand al'thorThere is some evidence, although not canonical: on Amazon you can buy a jigsaw puzzle of Finn which formerly claimed (you can see it mentioned in the reviews and in this article) that he is Lando Calrissian's son: Sadly they seem to have removed this from their product description, since I can...

lol
 
Is everyone familiar with this:
 
9:10 PM
@FlagAsSpam Yeah, that's the best thing ever
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC lol
 
'Tis. I spent 3 hours laughing at the one with the cat.
 
Vote early vote often!
 
@Undo welcome back
 
:)
 
9:13 PM
Whoa, tied for 1st!
 
@HATMAN crazy!
 
IKR?
I wasn't even really trying that hard
 
well yeah
I um, yeah
I fell behind
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC that will be pretty bad for you if a guy who "wasn't even really trying" beats you!
 
I don't have vote early or explorer
I get explorer at UTC 0
 
9:17 PM
cool
 
Vote early I should get when I DVLR on CR
 
Almost 150k hats across the network o.O
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC actually you arnt, it is 72 hours after you posted it, not at the start of the 3rd day in UCT.
 
oh, well I get explorer StackTomorrow sometime then
I need to get weed eater
 
9:19 PM
@Quill-HATMANIAC me too, that is a hard one
 
2 days till I get a bounty by default as well
 
I've been having a hard time with it too
 
When you join a site and have momentary excitement followed by regret... sigh
 
lol
 
that SciFi question is getting traction now
 
9:20 PM
mine is at 13 views :(
 
anyway, how does one see how many votes they've cast lately
 
It will have reset for the week, but on the users page
 
yes it reset the other day
what day did winterbash start?
 
The 14th
 
okay thanks
 
9:37 PM
What percent of hats do you think are going to be Fan-HAT-tic on the 24th?
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC I dunno. I'm not personally a fan of "hats" that aren't actual things that are designed/intended to be work on heads. Of course, there are obvious exceptions even this very year. I don't see a really obvious trigger for it, either. Feel free to make your best case, though.
 
@FlagAsSpam a lot
ok thanks
 
SE is gonna freak out. xD
 
@pops a tomato could be for downvoting or deleting something, you know, like how they throw rotten tomatoes at people on stage
3
 
10:41 PM
Considering the amount of complaints we get about people doing bad stuff on the sites just to get hats, when we try to make the hats encourage positive behavior, I'd hate to see what happens with a heckling-themed hat.
 
11:39 PM
@Pops do the hints for the secret hats start Monday UCT?
or tomorrow EST?
 

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