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12:17 AM
Congrats on your latest hat, @Quill-HATMANIAC.
Is it the Carl hat?
 
yeah
finally got it on CR
 
Yup. You have the two app hats and Cleanup that I don't have.
I'm surprised I managed to get that many others here that you didn't.
 
Ya, Amazing Grace and Sun Wukong immediately
 
does anybody know if the bathtub is still being given out for flip flop?
 
ping pops
 
12:20 AM
I dont want to bother him, if I dont have a guess, or it is not really important.
 
oh, well, I bothered him for tomatoes, so I'm sure he won't mind
 
lol, well that is you, and your pings. I am trying to be more conservative.
 
ouch, and sure
yesterday, by Quill - HAT MANIAC
@pops asking for someone else, can we have a tomato hat next year?
tomato
 
hey, he has put up with a lot from all of us...
 
yes he has
 
12:25 AM
I vote that we give Pops a collective bounty on CR (since most of us are from there).
Or any/all the sites.
 
I was just gonna write a thanks mse post after WB finished
 
I would give him a big one on BSE, if I got a bathtub :)
@Quill-HATMANIAC good idea.
 
not just him though, you know, balpha too for the nice wb page
 
We should give them hats!
I could knit and felt a hat if I knew where to send it. And how big their heads were.
 
12:39 AM
SE NY hq, also make it one size fits all kinda thing
 
Hmm, yes. I could make it stretchy. How many do you think I should make?
 
Hmm, at least 15
 
Has Pops given any hints?
 
7 hours ago, by Pops
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Q: Can we get some hints for the 2015 secret hats?

PopsWe're a week into Winter Bash 2015, and a lot of secret hats have been found. How do you get these secret hats for yourself? Well, figuring that out is half the fun! I mean, you could be boring and just cheat off other people's work, but nuts to that, I say. There's nothing worse than a cheaty ch...

 
oh, nice.
 
12:43 AM
Hey guys, I need a vote only on this answer in order to get the gold badge hat, anybody here that can help?
22
A: Are there hotkeys to navigate the timeline?

HATMAN→ 1 frame forward ← 1 frame backward Shift+→ end frame Shift+← start frame ↑ next keyframe ↓ previous keyframe ⎈ Ctrl⇧ Shift→ next marker ⎈ Ctrl⇧ Shift← previous marker Shift+↑ 10 frames forward Shift+↓ 10 frames back

 
I don't have a Blender account.
Hmm.
How does that get you a gold badge?
 
Populist badge.
 
Oh, right.
 
10 more upvotes than the accepted answer with more than twice the score.
(I think..)
 
Twice as many.
And more than 10.
Or summat.
 
12:46 AM
Exactly
I should be good now, thanks guys
 
Speaking of gold badges, can I get eyeballs here? I don't need votes, just as many views as you can give me.
 
ooooh, 9933
You are close!
 
Getting there...
I started around 9850, and I knew it was going to be a stretch, but then Hugo put a bounty on it.
 
ah
 
that should make you tie with me @hatman
 
12:48 AM
And then war erupted. But not enough to get it on Meta, probably because I'm a mod. :\
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC :)
Trying to catch up on BSE, @David got way ahead
 
there's a bounty I answered expiring in 8 hours too
 
Sometimes I wish I could not care about hats.
 
lol
I did that for a few days
 
Then I think about how excited my officemates were to get the owl thumbtacks that I got for "participation" prizes.
 
12:51 AM
XD
 
I'm at 419 out of 500 comment flags
I should get 500 in a few days and thus a gold badge
 
Cool
You are on a roll!
 
And then I don't feel so bad, because those were pretty cool thumbtacks, and so what if they were just thumbtacks? because it's the little things that make us feel good.
@Quill-HATMANIAC There's a badge for that?
 
yes
 
@KitZ.Fox Marshal
 
12:52 AM
Marshal you beat me to it
 
@HATMAN except I'm working and my bounty answer has only two votes
I'm rolling into a wall
 
:/
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC Oh. Forever beyond my reach.
 
I got copy editor ages ago, and most of the "easy" gold badges
Answer or Question gold badges are beyond my reach
 
1:10 AM
So, I have updated the answer for the edward-hat. Anyone agree / disagree with me here:
 
do you have evidence for that?
do we have evidence for that hat?
 
Given that I have earned 15 bounties before this one, it cannot be "your first bounty"
Additionally, the example bounty in the answer above, is also not-the-first post-bounty answer.
 
maybe it's just 'one of the answers', like there's multiple answers
hmm, either way that means I won't get Edward Edwards on my SO post...
 
1:29 AM
@Quill-HATMANIAC: They do. But it's possible offering prizes will decrease the quality of work‌​. I've never met a child who did not like to pop bubblewrap, so adding an award will not likely increase efficiency. — Jon Ericson ♦ 1 min ago
Two positives beat one positive, I would assume. Maybe give them red cordial/frogs to eat for extra energy? — Quill - HAT MANIAC 13 secs ago
 
2:48 AM
@rolfl I'd guess that it is actually a bounty awarded to a post-bounty answer that is not the highest voted post-bounty answer. That's more in line with the mutiny thing.
But I haven't checked others to see if it holds. I can tell you that neither of the bounties I have awarded have earned the answerers a hat.
 
3:02 AM
I appreciate the sentiment from two and a half hours ago, but thank-you posts are just noise, and I don't think I've posted bounty-worthy content on most sites.
 
Ah, an email will suffice then
 
Note that I didn't say anything about sending in physical hats. I don't even work in NYC, but now I'm curious about your millinery skills, @KitZ.Fox et al.!
 
You know to knit @KitZ.Fox?
 
 
4 hours later…
6:35 AM
Good morning hat hunters ;-)
 
Some fresh hats available?
 
Anybody want to help me get amazing grace? I think it'll look good on me :)
Just need a couple of upvotes on the answer:
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A: "Congratulations! Thanks to your efforts you have earned" box appears on top of the hat picker

balphaFixed, thanks. Now stop earning badges and start earning hats!

 
which hat requires that?
 
Amazing Grace
 
6:47 AM
oh sorry
 
Next year, there should definitely be a secret hat for reporting a winterbash bug
 
hehe
or for finding the countdown page
 
 
3 hours later…
9:41 AM
hello guys..
my first chat message ever on SE network :)
 
10:09 AM
-3
Q: Happy Festivus Everybody

EranHappy Festivus everybody. Let's start airing our grievances.

 
10:24 AM
@HappyCoder Welcome
 
10:57 AM
@Eran wat
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC ?
 
48 mins ago, by Eran
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Q: Happy Festivus Everybody

EranHappy Festivus everybody. Let's start airing our grievances.

what's up with that?
trying to get Sun Wukong?
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC Wanted to get the Airing the Grievances hat with style :)
 
> airing our grievances
 
 
1 hour later…
12:08 PM
anyone here got Archimedes?
 
 
2 hours later…
2:08 PM
@Pops Well, do you live in a place where it gets cold enough for a knit hat part of the year?
I could knit you a toque or this other kind of hat I do that has earflaps and ends up kind of looking like a chainmail cowl.
@Quill-HATMANIAC Yes, it is a very useful skill, especially when you live in a cold place.
 
2:53 PM
I've now figured out 3 secret hats, although so far as I know, you can only get credit for one, so...
 
3:13 PM
Did anyone ever figure out Flying Tiger?
 
4:09 PM
@PearsonArtPhoto which three would that be?
also no, no one figured out Flying Tiger that we know of yet
 
4:34 PM
@Quill-HATMANIAC Amazing Grace, It's 5 o'clock somewhere, and I forget the other one...
 
I need those two
 
5 O'clock is post at 5:01 Friday somewhere in the world.
 
ok
 
Amazing Grace is file a good bug report.
 
I think i may gotten that one, I need the 007, edwards, and one other i forget
 
4:47 PM
@PearsonArtPhoto It doesn't have to be upvoted?
 
5:06 PM
Any leads on the onion knight?
 
in The 2nd Monitor, 24 secs ago, by Hosch250
All hat-lovers go vote on a meta post.
@PearsonArtPhoto What kind? Question/Answer? Do comments or votes count?
Also, I might get Edward Edwards, if @TopinFrassi awards the bounty. He has 6 hours to do it.
He's not been here for 17 hours, though...
 
@Hosch250 Question I'm pretty sure, nothing else will do.
Hence why so few.
 
I've got a question waiting. I'll post it on my Friday at 5:01.
 
1701.
Any timezone is fine.
 
5:22 PM
in The Renderfarm, 1 min ago, by David
okay, hat testing time. I want 5 UVs, and 5 DVs on this. (I have not found any examples of the Sun Wukong on any site except the main meta)
 
@hichris123 Possibly, I'm really not sure on that account...
 
5:41 PM
@David Oh. We earned it on our Meta.
 
@David One of our mods posted a troll-post on CR meta for us all to get it.
 
Hmmm, good idea...
 
@David Hey, someone should write a script to change her name on a single system only.
That way everyone can call it whatever they like.
 
@Hosch250 what do you mean? you can do that now
 
@David You can?
How?
 
5:48 PM
@Hosch250 O... (wack head on desk!) I completely did not get what you wrote.
 
Posted a meta question asking if such a question was a good idea. Wonder if I'll get that hat now...
 
@PearsonArtPhoto UV'ed :P
 
@JoshCrozier UVed
 
Thanks :)
 
5:51 PM
Eran is wrong. You can get the hat from an answer.
 
@Eran Yep, I got it from an answer.
 
@PearsonArtPhoto The fact is I got it from an answer.
 
Removed. Pops didn't like it.
 
I've attempted Weed Eater four times, no dice.
 
5:56 PM
OK.
 
@PearsonArtPhoto does it work on self answers?
@KitZ.Fox I even asked a question about it. (top that!)
 
No idea, will find out...
If I get 1 more vote, that is...
 
@David I don't compete. I just need answers.
 
@KitZ.Fox tushay, but I still want the hat.
 
I'm going to assume you mean "touché" and not "tushie".
 
6:02 PM
haha..
 
I need to try for weed eater at CR.
 
@Hosch250 As long as you are beating Quill, you're good ;)
It looks like you're 1 point ahead at the moment
 
Only because I got The Airing of Grievances and he didn't..
 
ah..
 
Where is @TopinFrassi! The bounty is going to run out, and then I won't get the hat!
He's not been seen for 18 hours, and he has 5 hours to award it.
 
6:07 PM
@Hosch250 If your answer was accepted after the bounty was started, you will automatically be awarded the bounty.
 
I hope he didn't get hit by a bus.
@JoshCrozier Only half.
 
oh yeah..
 
But I don't know if that will trigger the hat.
 
forgot about that clause..
 
I want the hat more than the bounty.
 
6:09 PM
@KitZ.Fox haven't I already established that, if you are going to try to chat with me you are going to have to read my typos.
 
Hmm. You may have.
 
Finally got the weed eater.. OP just accepted.
 
Sounds familiar. "Not my chat" kind of something that I probably said at one time.
 
that hat is pretty tough to get..
 
I just answered (another) this morning, will see what comes of this one.
 
6:12 PM
My language(s) don't result in tumbleweeds.
They are mostly JS questions.
 
We have barely any on EL&U.
 
Probably 3/4th of sites almost never have tumbleweeds.
 
@PearsonArtPhoto I dont know about that, but the Q that do get the badge, either are so useless that nobody will answer, or the OP will never com back to accept.
 
Most of the smaller sites don't get many, if any, tumbleweeds.
 
BSE has 302
 
6:15 PM
Of the most popular sites I visit, only SO and maybe MSO have them.
Really? Wow...
 
@PearsonArtPhoto We have enough.
 
ones worth answering probably > 30
 
Let's just say that CR has 705 Tumbleweed.
Mostly JS.
 
Space has 0:-)
So, it seems you can't get weed eater for answering your own question... Interesting...
I still might get 007 out of it, but...
 
@PearsonArtPhoto not surprising. most hats will not be given for self answers.
BUT the big surprise is Speedy Delivery.
we have a used that got Speedy Delivery on a slef answer.
@PearsonArtPhoto why did you delete you sun meta post?
 
6:21 PM
Per request.
 
Any advice on how to find questions to get the Weed Eater hat from?
 
@Gwenn Look at the questions that have been awarded Tumbleweed.
You can find them by going to the Badges tab and clicking the Tumbleweed badge.
 
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Q: Tags on badge question list

PearsonArtPhotoI'm trying to get the Weed-Eater hat on Stack Overflow. To do so, I'm looking at the list of questions recently awarded the Tumbleweed badge. The problem is, no tags show up there, and so it's rather difficult to see which ones I have a shot at. Any chance of showing the tags on this page? Thanks!

One of my few candidates for Sun hat...
 
@PearsonArtPhoto Is that better?
 
@PearsonArtPhoto how many Dvs do you need? (or do you want a DV or an UV from me?)
 
6:30 PM
2 more dv's would do it.
 
No C# tumbleweeds on CR.
 
@PearsonArtPhoto You want a DV on that tags question?
 
Sure, why not...
 
@Gwenn I just look through the tumbleweed badge page. there is also meta.stackexchange.com/q/271207/278094
 
6:32 PM
@PearsonArtPhoto It's at +6/-5 now.
 
Okay, good enough, thanks:-)
Wouldn't mind a few upvotes to offset, but... Sigh. I want hats more I suppose:-)
 
@PearsonArtPhoto "Please consider adding a comment, if you think the post can be improved." My comment: "Just DVed so he could get a hat"
@PearsonArtPhoto I will switch to a UV after you get the hat.
 
Same..
 
@PearsonArtPhoto Let me know when you get a hat. I'll UV you after it gets edited.
 
6:34 PM
I thought for a second you actually posted that comment...
 
:) see this is what I need oven on my blender post.
@PearsonArtPhoto LOL I would never.
 
He has Sun.
 
@Hosch250 I dont
 
@PearsonArtPhoto Looks like you got the hat.. I switched to an UV.
 
It means we can upvote him.
 
6:35 PM
Thanks:-)
 
@PearsonArtPhoto lol, that was a pure hat scam. Me next :)
 
Oh, we had far more devious than that in here.
 
@PearsonArtPhoto I probably dont want to know.
although last year it did take quite a bit of team work to pull of the pizza hat (I did not get it, another user)
 
I don't remember the pizza one.
 
Pizza hat?
 
6:39 PM
@KitZ.Fox something like 5 UVed answers in under 30mins
 
It was in an attempt to figure out what Amazing Grace was.
I think we figured out how to deliberately award it to 3 users, perhaps more, to get the criteria right.
 
that one ^^
 
@David Most of us on CR got it. It usually took a bit of coordinating in chat.
 
@Hosch250 "A bit" it was more then a bit!
 
I mean, most of the chat regulars.
 
6:41 PM
Yikes, I'm in the top 20 SE wide on hat count...
 
Sometimes, we had to try several times, and there weren't always 5 people around.
 
First page...
 
I'm #10.
 
I'm 4th (and that is without 3 of the regular hats)
 
marked as duplicate by Father Christmas♦ 3 mins ago
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Q: Secret Hat from StockExchange for negitive reputation score

NonametheoneHow did I get a secret hat when my score is so low? Look at my stats. I have nothing good, sad to say I used to but not anymore. There is no other way unless they just give secret hats away.

 
6:44 PM
Ooh, @TopinFrassi is going to award the bounty in about 15 minutes!
Thanks!
Even if Quill passes me by 2, I maintain that we are tied because I don't have access to the app to post/vote, and he does.
 
I'm sure you could get an Android emulator and run it if you really wanted to...
 
There are lots, and I'm not sure which are safe.
Oh wait, I might be able to run an iPhone emulator through VS.
I just need to create an empty iOS app.
 
The one from Android.com is probably best. Or Genymotion works too.
 
I got the bounty. Now for the hat.
 
1 more vote on stackoverflow.com/a/34363233/544198 and I should get living in the future...
 
6:51 PM
Where is the emulator on Android.com?
 
@PearsonArtPhoto there is another hat I've given out
 
@PearsonArtPhoto Oh, thanks. I don't really need the SDK, though, I'll just bypass those hats.
Hmm, Edward Edwards hasn't come in.
 
I wonder if 007 works for your own post...
 
6:53 PM
@PearsonArtPhoto It does.
Quill and I both got it on our own posts.
 
Then 2 more votes on that question and I could get 007 too. Hmmm...
 
@PearsonArtPhoto did you vote on my meta post yet?
 
Which one?
 
3
Q: Rename our community bot?

DavidEvery site has a community bot which takes the credit for any server action that needs a user id, such as suggested edits. There is no need for it to be named "Community," we could rename it to anything we like. I'm proposing "Francesca," a name that originally comes from here, and has a long SE...

still looking for the sun hat
 
I can't downvote, but I can upvote.
 
6:57 PM
sure, I just need to get to five.
 
@KitZ.Fox I have never heard that word before, but Wikipedia doesn't have an entry for it either so I declare it "not a real thing."
 
@Pops so Wikipedia is where the hats come from!
 
One of many places.
 
@Pops I believe it is an Infinite Jest reference.
iirc
 
7:05 PM
Indeed.
 
Oh. Was it yachting you hadn't heard of then? :)
 
Oh hat guru, I come in defense of The Peemster.
 
I'm looking for votes on the question and answer here for the Amazing Grace hat.
 
@Gwenn already did :)
 
:D
 
7:20 PM
Who said Edward Edwards is for receiving their first bounty?
I just got my first bounty ever, and didn't get it.
Of course, I'd tried for other bounties before, but didn't win them.
 
@Hosch250 most people... (I never said that)
 
Maybe that has something to do with it?
 
@Hosch250 nope
 
Oh well. No Edward Edwards for me.
 
@Hosch250 was there any deleted answers on that one?
 
7:22 PM
Nope.
 
hmm, I still have not nailed down that one.
 
That guy in the middle is the SE hat awarding system.
 
lol
One hat for you, nothing for you. etc.
 
Which of these do you think I should do next? github.com/rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck/…
 
@KitZ.Fox Ha. No, someone else mentioned Infinite Jest to me right after I first replied to you. I didn't know about it before that (I had heard of the title but didn't know what it was and definitely not its characters).
 
7:38 PM
@Pops So.. what did I get right to get the Archimedes hat?
 
The description of a secret hat.
(Did you even submit more than one guess?)
 
yeah, I submit 3-ish guesses for one and 1 guess on another hat :/
I know I guessed something right, but what? :P
 
That's a secret.
 
lol
That way we can get the Arch hat too
 
@Pops aww.. ok.
 
7:40 PM
Don't spoil it
;)
 
@Hosch250 I'm pretty sure it has to be a post-bounty answer with a lower score than another post-bounty answer.
 
@Pops sent another hat guess
(and when that is wrong I will be stumped again!)
 
So @Pops, did you want a toque?
 
@KitZ.Fox You're sweet, but swag is supposed to flow in the other direction.
 
So you're planning to knit me a toque then?
 
7:47 PM
lol
I want a picture
 
@HATMAN I gave you pictures. Over 30 of them. See here.
 
@Pops how many total? I'm guessing that is still confidential.
 
@Pops lol
 
Correct!
 
darn
 
7:50 PM
@Pops YAH, my hat guess is correct!!!
:) that was a great timing of messages.
 
@David Are you going to tell us, or is it confidential?
 
@KitZ.Fox uhhhhhh... LOOK OVER THERE
 
@Hosch250 @Pops has not responded yet.
 
Oh, OK.
I thought you meant it literally after you posted the :) message.
 
@Hosch250 no, the "great timing of messages" was I posted my hat guess then pops said correct
"Sorry, this guess does not qualify for Archimedes." - Pops
 
8:01 PM
@KitZ.Fox Might I redirect your generosity to someone else who's worked on Winter Bash but lives in a colder environment than I do?
 
8:46 PM
I'm going to guess my err, guess, about the cleanup crew hat is what was correct.
 
9:08 PM
4
Q: What is the warp modifier for?

DavidWhat is the warp modifier for, and how is it used? Even when I fill in the From and To fields, so that the modifier is not red, I still can not figure out what it is so post to do. When I set up the modifier just like is shown in the manual, it does nothing.

more votes to get the hat (bonus if you guess what hat I'm after here)
 
9:42 PM
Where did the hats go?
 
err, wut
 
I can't see any hats anymore or the Winterbash 2015 page.
Is it just me or do you guys have the same thing?
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Q: Where did the hats go?

GwennFor some reason, I can no longer access the Winterbash 2015 page--when I try, I get redirected to the Stack Exchange promotions page instead, just like Winterbash is over. Except, we should still have another week and a half. Also, I can no longer see hat-related features on SE sites. What happe...

 
9:53 PM
And now they seem to be back.
We're having a few technical issues, basically you took too many hats and there is a backlog... Give us a few. — bluefeet ♦ 4 mins ago
We got too many hats. :P
I find this amusing.
 
10:32 PM
@Pops Absolutely, provided that it is not my mortal enemy.
 
@KitZ.Fox You actually have a mortal enemy? Who is it?
 
I'm not sure.
 
That must be terrifying. But I doubt it's relevant here. May I e-mail you?
 
Usually I find a person's mortal enemy to be themselves.
I know it's true in my case.
 
@Pops Yes. You can use the email on my account or I can give it to you if you can't find it quickly.
@Seth Have you read the Wizard of Earthsea?
 
10:40 PM
I can look it up quickly, but I didn't want to do it without asking.
 
@KitZ.Fox nope. Should I?
 
@Seth It's related to the conversation topic and Ursula K. LeGuin is a fabulous writer, so I would say yes. If you want to.
@Pops Thank you for being not creepy.
 
My lone redeeming quality.
 
11:00 PM
Tomorrow should be the 10th day, yeah?
we're gonna see a lot of that hat
Is the "It's Always 5 O'Clock Somewhere" hat locked to fridays?
 
11:17 PM
@Pops Awesome. Now I've got another flash fiction piece to write. But what prize? sighs Life is so complicated.
 
11:48 PM
@Quill-HATMANIAC 15 mins
@Quill-HATMANIAC sure looks it
 
I'll have to wait a few days then ;-;
 
@Gwenn so that is how you get the amazing grace hat; ask why all the hats are gone. Brilliant.
 

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