Nobody understands hats anymore.

"Search You Must" should be inbound.

Have 25 hats, I do.

yep, confirmed.

A while to update hats, chat does take.

@AlexanderO'Mara you sure are on a roll!

I am the Sun

@ATaco You are a taco.

A Taco Without the Taco Hat

But you are still a taco.

Soon, I will have The Hat

or not. it seems to be randomly assigned.

You misunderstand me.

I am not going to sit by and let myself not get the hat.

I will have that hat.

Also, Hat Lag sucks

Now for the grueling task of a third rep-cap.

@AlexanderO'Mara I've managed 1/3 so far...

lol

Anyone wants a "this is fine" hat? I can award this bounty stackoverflow.com/q/39431230/584192

Hold up, I am getting in on that.

I do, hold on

(Is there a way to get in on this without it looking like I'm just hat hunting..?)

(dunno)

(I'll do a semi-burn, then probably just delete it after...)

(lol)

(I feel like a horrible person, I am a hat whore)

anything else to add?

@Saiid

(now I need to find something to add that isn't a copy of the others)

I think I might have something

Ah, yes, I know what I can do

@MonicaCellio have you reached 150 on each of the three, or 150 in total?

I haven't been able to get any hats :(

My snowflake is missing on mobile

@alecxe each. Sorry if my wording wasn't clear enough.

(Plus there was some stuff from the previous day, i.e. first day of Winterbash.)

@MonicaCellio gotcha, sounds like you qualify

(I'm only active on three sites...)

@AndrewLi yeah, mobile doesn't support hats; you need to switch to the full-site view to get them.

@alecxe care to join in for the this is fine hat? stackoverflow.com/q/39431230/584192

I posted my answer, if someone would upvote? :D

@MonicaCellio I did

It stopped showing up

@ATaco @Saiid honestly if you don't have anything to add, please don't add an answer

@SamuelLiew would be great, thanks, can you give me time till tomorrow?

even if it's for a hat

@alecxe No, just post something short now

make it answer worthy

okay, got it, let me see

@SamuelLiew @SamuelLiew IMO either let them write a legit answer or then don't do it

I've tweeted links to questions on three sites but no social-media hats yet. I wonder if Twitter's link-shortener messed that up. Real links: worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/q/64705/28 judaism.stackexchange.com/q/78283/472 writers.stackexchange.com/q/25587/1993

And if anybody can offer any answers to the last one, which is about Doxygen, I'd be happy.

@AndrewLi Ok cool. Do you mind if I award the bounty to the newer better-written answer instead?

@SamuelLiew I don't, but I won't get the hat :P

You're right, I don't want to sell my soul for hats, the post has been deleted.

@AndrewLi wow, that's weird. I thought the desktop site gave you all the features of the desktop site, even if you're viewing it on a phone. I wonder if the snowflake is using something that your phone's browser doesn't support. (Dunno what that would be, but...) . Have you tried multiple browsers?

@MonicaCellio Hmm. It may have been some weird bug. It's back now

@AndrewLi I noticed a few hours ago that the snowflake was slow to show up on page loads -- assumed it was us pounding the snot out of the server or something. So maybe it was that?

Maybe

Yeah, you are right, I don't have anything that will bring something new to the topic at this moment.

thanks though!

Never let me stoop that low for a hat again

I'm going to open up more bounties now, suggest a question that you can answer well? @ATaco @alecxe

Suggest some, but I won't answer anything non-constructive.

@SamuelLiew Oups - didn't know you were awarding the bounty now - had one coming :P

@Rob aww, I'm going to open up more bounties, what else can you answer?

Give me Lua, I speak Lua better than I speak English

Anything C# :D

@Rob What about this stackoverflow.com/q/6545254/584192?

@AndrewLi I was planning to answer it anyway

Darn, I cannot Answer that one

@SamuelLiew Most of it's covered I feel. I'll have a think about it if you decide on that one. Though pick a question/answer you want to bounty - don't mind us just for the hats :)

I'm also curious - do you get the hat if you award a bounty to a competing answer?

I've already got a bounty going on a question I answered

I don't think it works if you award the bounty

@Rob Yes, tested on a competing answer manually

Yes - you do get it, or Yes to Saiid?

@Saiid Yes, manually awarded bounties are also tested

Ah, nevermind though - answer was posted long ago

@SamuelLiew I meant I don't think it works for you if you are the one awarding the bounty

It's only for answers posted during WB right?

@Rob I believe so

Has anyone gotten the This Is Fine hat from @SamuelLiew's bounty-giving?

@Rob Yes, has to be during WB, proven here stackoverflow.com/q/40581507/584192 (10k), user Emile didn't receive hat while I did, on a bounty self-awarded to a competing answer

Alright, thanks

@Saiid It does, see above comment

Yeah

@SamuelLiew maybe just has to be in December

there was a Dec. 13th counterexample

Just got This Is Fine

Nice

but your answer is a bit subpar imo

Ehh

It works

Sure @Saiid but it's not what they're looking for...

@Saiid Don't forget to delete your answer, or improve it.

^

@SamuelLiew I was about to head there in a second

@AndrewLi You have a point. Mine takes a bit less code than yours, though :P

@Saiid Less code doesn't mean better by any means

Especially if they do different things

Please explain how they do different things

@Saiid In your example, c() is not a property of the string. It's a function call

Rephrase: they do the same thing, but the OP explicity requesting a property, not a function

Yeah, it's a valid suggestion, although not a great one.

Not valid imo

*shrugs*

Either improve or remove

Am I wrong that I should have received another badge/hat?

I edited the question, then answered it

or does my answer then have to be accepted?

hmm

what badge?

I'm not sure

I thought there was one like that though

Explainer

nvm, has to be less than 12 hours

oh well

Anyone want to close a random question, pile on edits, and then reopen it 4 teh hatz?

Preferably one of my questions so that I can get Abominable and No Longer Grinchy

I don't have 3K anywhere :(

Please don't do that to random questions posted by unsuspecting users. Try to find a question that deserves the close/edit.

Do not sell your soul for hats

I think you made a typo

Hi!

ello

Wow, the Docs has a new formatting again :P

@ATaco You clearly wrote 'not'. I believe this was a typo for ''.

Any new discoveries for the hat 6?

Do not sell your soul for hats

Another typo

:/

Please fix your typo

Do NOT sell your soul for hats

So many typos

@Saiid seriously though, no soul selling

:'/

@ATaco Too late

@KritixiLithos wat how you get bert

@MonicaCellio I was going to suggest one of my own questions :P

@StephenLeppik ah. Ok, that's less bad. In general, let's try to remember that the things we do in search of hats can create work for other people (e.g. reviewers) or interrupt other activities (e.g. an in-progress answer to a question being closed/edited). I'm not saying don't do stuff; SE should be designing hats to stimulate positive activity. I'm just saying: let's try to be careful. General comment, not aimed at anyone in particular.

As previously stated, Do not sell your soul for hats

:/

:/

\:

\:

:D

'_'/

'_'/

@AndrewLi :D

no.

Yes.

\:/

\:/

:┑

:¶

Time to go hat hunting

❍

:§

anybody got a secret hat

∫αωαδ

i meant a secret secret hat

that somebody hasnt really figured out yet

@StephenLeppik If you want abominable, VTC this question duplicate before I hammer it

No :(

UH

@Rob i dont even have close votes!

:(

@MasterBob Flag it

Then go 'should be closed' -> 'duplicate'

@Rob flagged

@StephenLeppik You around?

@MasterBob Hammered - lemme know if you get it, haven't tested it with flags, only votes

I have a feeling the secret hats have all been found.

@AndrewLi theyve been all found, but some people just dont know how they got it lol

@MasterBob is it confirmed?

@AndrewLi what is confirmed?

@MasterBob that there are no more secret hats?

The Taco Hat Will be MINE

No soul selling :P

I'm not selling my soul.

@AndrewLi nothing can ever be confirmed with 100%, but its not likely theres more

I'm just editing a lot more than I otherwise would.

For the Tacos

I'm editing for a gold badge

and 24

@Rob did not get the hat, but its registered because i got the first flag badge

@AndrewLi really? i'm going for electorate (have to vote so much)

Hats are processed separately @masterbob

@MasterBob Got that long time ago

Going for copy editor

Usually 10-15min delay

@AndrewLi oh well

@Rob but its already registered (at least, the badge is)

469/500 edits!

amazing

im like, 2 or 3, maybe even 1

oh its 3

What's up with the highlighting

on the doc

Don't bold things that shouldn't be

@Rob i got the hat, confirmed with flags

@MasterBob \o/

@Rob yeah YAY!!!

thx

Which one?

No worries

@MasterBob I must say, the "what's up doc" hat fits you very well

@AndrewLi you meant, it fits my cat very well

@MasterBob goo.gl/images/PDljp1

@Rob Sorry, bit of a break. I can't VtC yet

No worries - I'll let you know when I find another, flagging works too

@Rob which hat?

@AndrewLi abominable, proven by me!

For Where In The World, what counts as interacting with a site?

Upvotes

Yeah. Flagging works

@JamesENL voting, posting, commenting, flagging,cving, etc

Ty

@AndrewLi although im not really sure how to do a reopen flag

@MasterBob must be 3k+

@AndrewLi i know, i checked the priviledges page

@StephenLeppik stackoverflow.com/questions/41125094/… .

@Rob how did you get the taco hat

No idea

Was editing out 'thanks' from old posts

Taco hat seems to do with edits

Usually awarded with elementary

@Panda yes, not leaving an edit summary is one theory

^Yea

@Panda however, it has to be multiple, bc i did it 1 time and i didnt get it

I think I got it while aiming for some other hat

Who changed criteria for this is fine???

@Rob showed up too late :(

Me

jk

@AndrewLi eh, has good reason

@MasterBob no it doesn't

@AndrewLi and why does it not?

answer is correct, not question

ok

editing

done

Are there any theories for the hat 6?

Yeah, I got it from a question posted way before WB

I've tried it for 3 days in a row

@Panda 6 secret hats? XD

Definitely not ;)

6?

I got it from doing nothing

@SamuelLiew encouraging users to post answers that are immediately deleted after getting an upvote and you award the bounty is highly disappointing. I get you want to help people get hats but it's encouraging bad behavior and I'd recommend stopping it

@bluefeet may I ask a question regarding secret hats?

Hats are fun but let's not litter the sites in the process of trying to get them.

^^^

@AndrewLi you may ask but I'm most likely not going to answer

Have all the secrets hats been found?

Worth a try

Do not sell your soul for hats

It's day 2. You've got lots of days left to find hats. Why try to get them all in two days?

OK flagged

Compared to last year's number of secret hats, there seem to be much more

@bluefeet I wanted confirmation that our search hadn't come to a disappointing end ;)

You'll have to wait and see

Ok

Have we figured what Blue In The Face is for yet?

Nope

I got that one from doing nothing

@AndrewLi upvoting comments?

I'm almost positive it's just having a bunch of comments upvoted quickly

All our tests only yielded about 5 comment votes, while @AndrewLi ended up with 10+ over two comments

that almost is key

Huh, interesting.

Shall we mass-upvote some comments, then? It's not particularly harmful to the site

@Saiid seems tempting

anybody got an idea where

So we just have to upvote like 10 or so distinct comments?

not 10 distinct comments i think

From what I saw: there were two comments. The first one was 'possible duplicate of...' which had 5 upvotes. Then immediately after was another normal comment, with (i think) 7 upvotes

Blue in the face?

I've one comment with 6 upvotes

The question didn't get closed, even though it had 5 upvotes

@Panda was the comment posted before winter bash or did you get the hat

Ah, ok, I see what you mean now.

Posted yesterday

Let me see if I can find the link

@Panda I think we had 8-10 last year, somewhere in that range

Wait, it's 5 upvotes

Pretty sure it was 6 yesterday

Yeah, it's not pure upvotes

hah, that's easy enough

We tested that

aw

Anyone willing to try on my comment ;)

try what?

What's this about upvoting 10 comments?

8 to 10 up votes?

I did my part

What does it do?

Blue in the face

It gives you a badge, and potentially a hat

Just to clarify, it's hypothetically about getting bunch of comments by a specific user heavily-voted each?

Which badge?

Well, if multiple times

hmm... the number of blue feet is 2... maybe 2 comments?

nvm

@MasterBob Let's test

Well, test on what?

It might be worthwhile using the sandbox question for this

need a guineapig to conduct an experiment yo

@Rob Ah!

One person can post a bunch of comments (with links, etc, 'possible duplicate') etc, and then we all upvote them

Since this is really unorganized, can we just have one person making the comments until it's verified?

Sure

otherwise we'll end up with 500 comments and none of them getting enough upvotes

I've actually got two comments ready, though, if anyone wants to upvote them

no links, but

idk

maybe we should upvote with the [ask] and [tour]?

@Rob What sandbox question is this?

Hold on

Rep-capping is tough when nobody is asking good questions...

lol

Ah, it's a protected question

Annoying

lol

@AlexanderO'Mara yeah it is

That's why you go for bounties

@Rob My comments got 10+ upvotes?!

Well, one comment, two comments

how about this? is doing stuff on meta sites fine?

@AndrewLi You had one with 5ish and another with 7ish right next to each other

huh

@BalarkaSen It's closed

so what? we can still comment as much as we want on any draft

The doc is a bit cluttered guys

Ah, right

Well, we can comment on this question: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3122/…

And the random question marks are not organized

It explicitly says we can 'post comments to this question or its answers'

yeah, fair enough

Does my name show up as Andrew Li when editing?

So.. can one person post two comments there - one with a link, one without - and we all upvote both those comments

@AndrewLi Yes - if you mean the google doc

oki

yeah

The comments won't load for me

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lol

that's horrible

ugh

All hail Zalgo!

emoji arts

Bobince's answer is amazing

yeah'

uh, i dont have enough rep on the meta site, only SO

The pony he comes

Sorry for spam, but

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ah, dammit

didn't work

oh well

glares

Why is stuff Open Sans and Arial?!

lol

So - is anyone going to make a few comments we can upvote?

One font please!!!

@Rob right

@Rob Where?

On the question here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3122

@AndrewLi done

@Rob I don't have enough rep to comment/vote on the meta site

Woo! I got They Live!

From editing

and reviewing suggested edits

editing wut?

ah

Nice @JamesENL

I got it like that too

@Rob I just did

I want to say Necro'ing