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Helmar

09:20

Did I miss something?

A: How does the system sustain regular low-effort "splitting attacks"?

You're tackling a few points there. The first remark that I have is right in the title. A splitting attack is not performed regularly. It's more precisely described as one sustained attack. A splitting attack's goal is to split the tangle in two parts that they can identify and spend on both. ...

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Henry WH Hack v2.1

10:50

Guys I found the oldest cache of my user account on Area51.SE

web.archive.org/web/20160905102036/area51.stackexchange.com/…

IoT.SE is in there too. ;)

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anonymous2

12:33

@Aurora0001, what's your hat for?

Henry WH Hack v2.1

I have 0 hats.

anonymous2

We're equal

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anonymous2

13:35

Oh, looks like cosmic brain is just for nice answer.

Winterbash 2017 has started!

Helmar

14:04

I'm still hat-less :(

anonymous2

@Helmar Aww... It won't last long.

Something tells me nobody's getting the Explorer hat here.

Henry WH Hack v2.1

@anonymous2 Why?

anonymous2

@HenryWHHackv2.1 post an accepted answer that receives no other votes for 12 hours

A bit on the unlikely side.

Henry WH Hack v2.1

That seems impossible for us.

anonymous2

We have a very good voter base here, and it's unusual for a post to get no votes whatsoever in 12 hours.

Especially an accepted answer.

Not complaining, though, my hope is that it makes it a very welcoming community to new users who have good IoT questions.

Helmar

14:13

Yep that's not gonna work here

There should be a hat for asking a well received question on all network sites :)

Henry WH Hack v2.1

What if we: Answer the question and then leave a comment saying "Guys please don't vote on this until 13 hours have pasted." ;)

anonymous2

@Helmar That would take one committed user, lol.

Henry WH Hack v2.1

I saw someone quick starred my last message.

anonymous2

@HenryWHHackv2.1 Ahh... I'm not that wild about hats. ;)

@HenryWHHackv2.1 Hit the star instead of reply. Sorry.

Helmar

@anonymous2 it would also probably totally freak out Vegetarianism SE

They've got like 100 views a day^^

Henry WH Hack v2.1

14:15

@anonymous2 OK. :(

anonymous2

@Helmar Lol. True that.

Henry WH Hack v2.1

@Helmar You should see Augur.SE.

Helmar

95 that's bad

Henry WH Hack v2.1

It was down to 40 something.

anonymous2

Interestingly, there Q/day is not far off or ours.

Henry WH Hack v2.1

14:17

Q: Is this site dead?

Henry pointed out in the chat room that we are down to 0 questions per day, and he further said, "this site looks uhhh". I have to admit; he is not far off with his statement. I just checked, and there were only six questions asked in November. Do we want to continue running this site as a comm...

anonymous2

All their mods are <1k

Helmar

Yeah they've got a terrible rep distribution

A 230 rep moderator, don't think I've seen that anywhere :D

Henry WH Hack v2.1

You should see this:

Brian Yu ♦

41 1

gradebook id initials invalid pset2 speller certificate

OK that's a different story.

He was appointed because he worked for CS50.

Q: The moderators do not seem to be moderating

It may just be me not understanding how this site works, but these are the moderators (all appointed March 2014): danallan ♦ 1 - No activity besides reading tour page. daven ♦ 1 - Absolutely nothing. GabrielGuimaraes ♦ 46 - Very little activity - 4 badges and an answer (meta user) glennhollow...

support moderation

Helmar

They had to make the nomination question community wiki so that the potential mods could edit the posts to insert their acceptance

anonymous2

@Helmar Rofl.

Henry WH Hack v2.1

14:26

I VTCed this because it doesn't seem like a Meta question, but since a moderator posted an answer without closing it himself that means it's clean I feel weird.

Helmar

They had 4 questions this year, I don't think the community moderation works over there ;)

Henry WH Hack v2.1

@Helmar ?

Helmar

oh i was on their meta

nevermind

anonymous2

Still...

Aurora0001

14:44

@anonymous2 It's a secret hat

anonymous2

@Aurora0001 Ha.

A: Winter Bash 2017 Hats

Secret Hats Ooh, Shiny! Cosmic Brain Galaxy Brain Universe Brain Rep Cap

No secrets from me. ;)

Aurora0001

Spoilers!

I think we need an IoT team effort for this one:

And YOU Get A Hat!

own any hat while the entire site collectively has at least 20 distinct hats

anonymous2

That could be a tough one, but we might manage it.

Aurora0001

I might be able to get a self-answered question going that could be interesting

anonymous2

@Aurora0001 In a lot of ways, self-answered is kind of good on the site, as long as people don't feel bad about piling another answer on.

Helmar

14:57

How long is the hat season again?

anonymous2

@Aurora0001 I'm working on This is Fine and Werewolf Hunter

Aurora0001

@Helmar Until January 3rd

Quite long this year, actually

I got the "And YOU Get A Hat" hat from SO just now... they're too eager :P

anonymous2

@Aurora0001 Almost 7k hats over there.

Mathematics follows close on its heals with 152. ;)

Oh, they just made it to 7k.

Henry WH Hack v2.1

I came in ~~as soon as I saw tux~~ because I felt like coming in.

Helmar

We've got a few questions sitting around 9k views maybe one goes gold

Aurora0001

15:03

Put on my mod hat

Although it's a little hard to see

Hmm

@Helmar I might get 'Copy Editor' at some point this month

Helmar

Right, 26 edits seems reasonable

anonymous2

I might get Inquisitive.

Helmar

Sweet

Though I think a silver badge will get handed out anyways

anonymous2

Yes, quite likely.

anonymous2

15:18

We just passed History!

Aurora0001

Tied with RPi

anonymous2

We'll get you yet, Ghanima... ;)

Henry WH Hack v2.1

I clicked the "I hat hats" button.

hours ago.

Helmar

Aah there's my app voting hat

Think I last voted on the app last winterbash

Aurora0001

I don't even have the app, so no hat for me

anonymous2

15:40

We've passed RPi!

Aurora0001

You hear that, @Ghanima? ;)

anonymous2

@Aurora0001 Shhh.... they might start trying. ;)

Passed UX

Aurora0001

15:56

Wow, and UX is a big site

Just not as dedicated ;)

Helmar

Beware of their inertia, they'll get a lot by accident :P

anonymous2

Only have to pass 52 more sites to catch up with SO. ;)

Aurora0001

I smell cheating:

winterbash2017.stackexchange.com/leaderboard/…

Community got a hat on Theoretical Computer Science!

Helmar

A secret one no less!

Getting the Reputation hat seems very unlikely too

@anonymous2 Actually they already are, Yearling badges ;)

anonymous2

Anyhow, headed out for a bit.

Got snow to blow.

Aurora0001

16:11

Hmm, your hat is... unusual :P

First AuroraQuestion in a while ;)

Should have posted it at 7pm to get the other hat too though

Aurora0001

17:04

Huh, why is the review red dot showing?

Yet as far as I can tell there are no reviews waiting at all?

anonymous2

Because it's the first time in a month or two that there have been no reviews pending. ;)

But it is for me, too.

Aurora0001

And on meta IoT

And on every other site too

Seems like someone broke something

anonymous2

Yep, on interpersonal too.

The review icon is wearing a hat.

Sounds like the name of a meta post.

Ghanima

@Aurora0001 passed what, passed how?

Aurora0001

@Ghanima winterbash2017.stackexchange.com

IoT was ranked higher than RPi (don't know if it still is; probably)

Ghanima

17:19

yes, I've heard about the hat thing

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Helmar

18:29

I think the review icon is just broken every other day

Aurora0001

19:01

RPi is now tied again with IoT

anonymous2

19:32

They've passed.

Shhh...

New Meta Post

Q: Experiment: More aggressive review queue indicator

Over on Meta Stack Exchange, I announced an experiment that would: Turn on the review queue indicator whenever there's a task available in any queue. All queues with at least one task will be marked with a red dot. There are no grey dots: This will mean you'll be notified of outstanding tas...