@David Would it? It would make it difficult to determine secret hat triggers or even their existence... but people would open up chat talking about them and sharing screenshots and proof. It would still be a mad dash to get hats just to show them off at the end... The leader board doesn't help either.
The hatter has "fourth or the six day of the week"... are we assuming the week starts on Sunday or Monday?
I asked two questions yesterday late (16:44:44 UTC and 20:15:35 UTC). The first received several answers and upvotes, but didn't get any comments until this morning. The second did not get any answers, and only two upvotes, but did receive a comment very late yesterday.
with timezones such as the Where in the world... that spans a few days... since for me, the sixth day hasn't even happened yet and could not be proven, but somewhere it is the sixth day
Well, nevermind, because (as mentioned previously in chat here) this guy got Hatter, and the only question has neither a 4 nor a 6 in the UTC timestamp. :-/
the whole "6 o'clock somewhere in the world" is very much like "It's 5 o'clock somewhere" meaning that because the timezones are usually a different of +/- 1 hour... somwhere is 6 o'clock at any given time
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20:15:35 UTC is probably 06:15:35 or 18:15:35 somewhere in the world
Which, depending on the behavior they're trying to incentivize, might make sense. 'We want you to try branching out, so here's this thing that youcould do in your existing communities, but will be easier in new ones.'
No this is not a question for hat-haters. The problem here is that any user with the right hat in the right place with the right size can cover their reputation and even some badge counts:
I mean you could go to the user's Activity page to find out but the hat seems a little weird covering th...
Look at how good this answer is... and it only got 8 votes.... It's a shame that only 2 more vote would get me a silver badge which would get me a hat... stackoverflow.com/a/31274545/1873485
@EmilyM If you are trying to cleanup/refine the criteria for that in the GDoc, I cannot help. I am using the doc for the information I am telling you :\
User who want earn the hat each must post 8 comments (1 user post 8 comments, not total 8 comments) on a post and ping the OP This is important: You need 8 comments posted by each user; less than 5 comments will not trigger it. Each comment must have at least 1 upvote If the OP also want the hat, he/she need to post 8 comments too, pinging the other user Question must be edited by user or OP User who deletes 5 of the upvoted comments will earn the hat (I’m not sure about the deleting part, but past users all stated that they have deleted some, not all 8 of the upvoted comments)
@bluefeet while you're here, would you mind expounding on your pinned comment on the starboard? I'd like to be sure that I'm avoiding nonsense, and couldn't see anything (presumably deleted comments?) on that post to serve as a warning/reminder.
@EmilyM ..... ummmm.... there was an hat for getting 10 starred messages in chat once, and there was also the Sun Wukong ones for the question that got votes/upvotes so.... plenty of background for that :P
It's not a bad thing... but it's something that I wouldn't normally do. Hats encourage different behaviors... some good (or decent) others not so much (even though the intent was not to encourage some of the things that are happening)
@TheSharpieOne Yeah, there are certainly some that can be gamed. But even when I've been tempted to do something... unseemly, I think perhaps there's a benefit there: it's gotten me to stop and think a little more about what I think a close vote, for instance, means and does.
I spent much more time perusing old stuff when I was chasing Elementary than usual. But for every edit I made there were a half-dozen posts where I said 'eh, there's really no need to touch this thing.' And in the process I grew more-familiar with new corners.
I mean I could just spoof it or guilt trip a few friends but that feels meh. Ive tried getting it legit by posting in here without begging. Hopefully Ill get it sometime
do links directly to your user page count like this? It ends with my user id after all.
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remember in Alice in Wonderland She asks the mad hatter about his watch. She guess that is tells the 4th, but he replies 2 more then that. Hench 4th and the 6th days. 6 o' clock is the easy part, that is tea time.
In this QA, http://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/311/3804, which says that Adams got his number from good old-fashioned garden-gazing.
But while I was looking for the sum completed by the apes in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I came across something peculiar, Lewis Carroll seems to make more refe...
As my avatar shows, I got They Live. Looked through the transcript so far and found one negative guess (reviewing an edit on a very old post). I'm guessing it may have to do with viewing a question in a different way (per the movie), but I can't imagine how.
@PaulBrinkley I suggested rejecting an edit that later got approved, or vice versa, but that happend (legitimately, it was on Puzzling and edits from the OP on answers on their questions are confusing (especially if you don't know that they're the OP)) and no hat.
@Mithrandir Maybe editing a post and having another post over-edit it somehow? Except, posts are locked for editing, right? So maybe just Reject and Edit? Maybe combined with something else?
I am not completely sure but I think I got a hat on a site where I am a new user. Maybe for just posting, maybe for having one of my answers being accepted.
Yes. I went on a deletion spree just like Willeke. The only other action I did during the time was flagging some comments as "Obsolete" now that I deleted my comment.
Though... maybe if I spam the communities I am apart of in other social networks... but still 1k views is a lot... I would probably get 1k people to see my post, but not take action and click the link...
the easiest silver is first to answer with +10 and accepted. Not that hard. If you have some accepted answers that you know were first and are less than +10, getting +10 know gets you silver
No this is not a question for hat-haters. The problem here is that any user with the right hat in the right place with the right size can cover their reputation and even some badge counts:
I mean you could go to the user's Activity page to find out but the hat seems a little weird covering th...
There is no snowflake on the mobile site, and there does not appear to be any other way to see Winter Bash notifications.
This is a bug report and/or feature request.
Workaround is to switch to desktop site on mobile to check.
The corner of the hat dialog has the title "Your Hats," but the dark grey text is unreadable on a dark blue background:
