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00:08
@AlexI can't believe I missed that! Went back and played the video at .25 speed. For anyone else interested, it is at 1:45.
@iKlsR -1. Not cute pupper
@KazWolfe heck
okay i followed the instructions at the bottom of the 8923523436 "Seems to be the same requirements as for the Cleanup Crew hat from a while back. I got it deleting comments specified by this SEDE query. -Kaz" and it worked
Can you all please take your doggie pictures somewhere else? This is a room for discussing hats.
This chat is now /b/. No exceptions.
00:11
@DavidPostill Yes a voice of reason.
a better picture of the video
Rennie, Texas, United States
1
User in question.
@David playful little guy!
@David u winning or nah
@iKlsR I will
but right now 4th
skrr
00:13
huh?
yes
@iKlsR your profile pic looks familiar for some reason...
@KazWolfe lady lux
my main when I enjoyed the cancer that is league
@iKlsR Right now, if you've been to Blender.Se recently, (you may have heard of it before), 'm engaging in some ingenuity with TOG :)
@X-27 I attract too much randomness, this room is for hats!
catch me over in the render room
00:15
@iKlsR no, your greatest flaw is that your an ugly cat!
lol
returns to normal
@Himarm another confirmation. awesome.
it was approx 20 comments total
i did like 15 yesterday
and 5 today
~
aka the trash
@David isn't there a dedicated room for that?
maybe, but at blender we have our own.
00:18
@David you threw the messages in the trash!?!?!?!?
the fun little dawgies!
poof
all gone!
HOW CRUEL!
@X-27 no you can still dig through the trash and read them
goodbye cruel dawgie hating world
I might come back if there are any dawgies left tomorow.
@X-27 goodbye forever.
00:20
I'm curious for the yet to be seen secret hat.
have we ever had an unawarded hat?
I think that is why they do give hints.
@Willeke All the hints so far were given after some users had already been awarded the hats ...
I am pretty new at it, only me second year.
Sigh changed my hat but didn't get a trend-setter... will do it again tomorrow at 0 UTC time though.
00:31
No need to do it at a certain time, as far as I have seen, just need to do it on three calendar days UTC,
@Willeke is it awarded after the 3rd day utc?
It is awarded within 20 minutes after your first hat change on the third day. (But it has to be three days 'on the same site'.
So if you participate on more than one site (and most here do) you may have changed hats on different sites rather than the same.
I am now testing with 'only on this site' active for two smaller sites.
I have done all on BSE, and I started on utc Friday. So this would be utc monday now and still no hat :(
@Willeke I had that checked for at least on of the days
When I got my Trendsetter I had not yet used it, same for most I heard from.
what do you mean?
00:45
I need one more day for the results of the test though. That is more likely two as I will not be alone tomorrow.
O, the this site only button
bummer.
well then I will keep going on all sites
you still have most of two weeks to collect hats. No hurries.
yep. that is the good thing
00:48
@Willeke Some hats can only be collected New Years Eve or something like that I think.
True, those you need to be in on the day, but for the things like Trendsetter you have a while.
Although I was sure to have done everything right for a hat last year, twice even, and did not get the hat.
That was a close vote, before a hammer closed the Q.
Last days of the WB, maybe they stopped after a set number of hats.
I changed my hat < midnight UTC on U&L site and then changed it again > midnight UTC on AU site so I think I messed that up. Do you have to keep the same hat on for 24 hours before changing it the next day though? (this is getting complicated).
Just got the Trendsetter hat \o/
You can change as often as you want. I wore all my hat one day and several the next, trying to find out what the trigger was.
I would suggest to leave a hat on for at least 10 minutes, so the bot can see it.
Congrats @ByteCommander
does anybody mind if i unbold most of the trendsetter stuff?
(like the upside down hat thing)
00:56
Did I read that right if I delete 10 of my comments I get a hat? Are there caveats to that?
@WinEunuuchs2Unix delete 10 specific comments.
You mean comments with raised flags?
No problem, the upside down has been disproved. Some got trendsetter with normal orientated hats.
@WinEunuuchs2Unix Must be upvoted comments
00:57
@KazWolfe go for it
Comments which have been upvoted, maybe not all but at least some.
It doesn't make sense to delete comments that have raised flags!
also can i move hatter to confirmed?
Date of comments does not seem to matter.
@WinEunuuchs2Unix How would you know if a flag had been raised anyway?
00:58
@KazWolfe I think it is.
not in the doc.
so i'll do that.
@DavidPostill I don't mean "bad flags" I mean the chevron "flag as helpful comment" which isn't an up-vote.
I did comments from last march till june, others older and others again newer.
My conundrum is I need to get 80 "helpful (chevron) comments" for one of my next medals.. deleting them would be counter productive... Deleting all my comments with #KazWolfe isn't a big deal though... LOL J/K
trendsetter needs some testing, but it's basically confirmed i think
01:02
I have seen many people get the trendsetter, I'd say confirmed already
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Hmm, wonder what that's about.
confirm trendsetter? on it.
Do you get badges for 80 comments with ^?
Nobody got that last secret hat yet? (Assuming it exists, and isn't just to troll us).
@AlexanderO'Mara There's two on that image right?
01:04
@DavidPostill one.
@DavidPostill Only one is new to me.
I now wonder whether the 6 will be given for flagging comments, as the 8,2etc is for deleting own.
Never mind just the bowler hat
@Willeke I don't think so. Have the hat without comment flags.
that is good news (As I do not like to flag just for testing) but bad as we still do not know how to get it.
01:08
I feel it has something to do with edits. (But I'm probably wrong)
Just done my 500 suggested edit review. (No new badge there, just at 250 and at 1000)
I have edited a lot of older question. How old do they need to be?
do we have a high-res image of Hat #41?
I remember how I got last years equivalent of the maverick, it did require some talking in the chat of the site I was active on.
yeah, you need to farm it a bit.
Three together downvote a 0 question, answer, upvote and upvote each other answers. Likely an edit to get others to upvote answers as well.
At the moment the chatroom at travel is empty and I have not been to the other chatrooms yet.
01:17
is bluefeet going to give us more hints?
Got to go, 2:17 AM here.
We're talking about this hat right?
no. nobody has that hat yet.
Yea, it's #41?
idk, that's just what i'm unofficially calling it
01:26
Lol thanks :P
01:53
for maverick, does my answer need to hit +5 before the question hits +3?
02:09
Wait so the criteria on the wiki are right??
wow. only 5 left!
02:53
wait
another undiscovered?
@bleh No, it's the last secret hat
That is still unknown
It's from the Not a Documentary
@AlexanderO'Mara yeah, not clue
where???
@KazWolfe Probably not.
@AlexanderO'Mara huh. ty then
02:58
ah i see it
@KazWolfe doesn't matter
@David alright great. mavericks candidate standing by.
03:28
@DavidPostill No such thing as up-voting comments which gain points... you can only chevron a comment which means "helpful".
Anonymous
03:56
It definitely looks like Alex from A Clockwork Orange. I have no idea what the criteria could be, unless it's date-based.
04:14
@WinEunuuchs2Unix that's called a comment upvote
Clockwork Orange is as emotionally disturbing as Eyes Wide Open Shut and Neon Dreams.... all three movies should be globally banned IMO
@KazWolfe You can't vote on comments.
@WinEunuuchs2Unix code says it's a "comment vote"
You can only raise comments as "helpful" you can't vote on them... this issue was discussed at length 2 months ago.
@WinEunuuchs2Unix so ban emotionally disturbing things? I guess My Little Pony will be the only thing to exits.
Anonymous
@KazWolfe triggered
04:16
"My Little Pony" is a good emotional development tool... not realistic when Dad doesn't have a million dollars, but good nonethelesss
@Mego triggered by you being triggered
I can't read that, and stop thunking my sub-woofer with at sign (@)
@WinEunuuchs2Unix click on it.
grr you're making my 6 o'clock turkey late at 8-clock later at 9:17pm
whatev it just says comment this comment that.
so what can this clockwork hat be?
04:21
Fact remains you don't get any points from "comment helpful flags" nor lose points from "delete that comment flags".
Anonymous
I dunno. Beethoven's Ninth (aka Ode to Joy) was a major part of the book/film
@Mego upvote everything?
Clock Work Orange is the most disgusting part of Stanley Kubricks works or not art.
Anonymous
Since the theme seems to be numbers, maybe something to do with 9?
@WinEunuuchs2Unix the internet will have to disagree.
04:23
Screw the internet, I can bring her down in 10 minutes.
Anonymous
It's entirely possible that the hat isn't Alex, but it really looks like it. Bowler hat and distinctive eye tattoo.
@Mego unless hat and monocle?
@WinEunuuchs2Unix oh?
post how you'd do that over in AUGR please. i'm interested.
Anonymous
@KazWolfe It doesn't really look like a monocle. A cybernetic eye, maybe. Westworld? I dunno, I haven't seen any of it.
@KazWolfe If the sole purpose of the internet is getting silly hats, points for -3 down votes and +3 save the day votes and promoting Clockwork Orange by Stanley Loser Kubrick then the Internet isn't necessary... Get it?
@WinEunuuchs2Unix no.
04:25
Yeah you do... you just won't admit the truth.
no i don't.
no internet = no cute cat pictures at my fingertips
hence, internet is necessary.
but this is the hat room. I'd gladly continue this discussion over in AU General.
You do realize the Internet is a derivative of the Arcnet which was created by Universities and Military to prevent World Wars?
As such it can be shut down at anytime to you and I as necessary.
ARPANET*
perhaps...I've been drinking.
 
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08:35
Hi, guys!
Hi @LloydDominic
This is the right place to brag a bit about hats, isn't it? I am now bound for first on my usual site. ;-)
(Only 20 hats in total, but that does not matter.)
Oh, hi @Willeke !
Right now, I only got 2 hats (just on SO; I don't have hats on any of my sites ...)
Could someone tell me how to earn more hats? ...
That must mean you have just started to gain hats.
In this link you will find how to get all normal and some secret hats: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/288271/…
The hatter hat
How to get?
Mostly it is just being active on the site, but it helps to post or vote on the Meta site to your normal site, and to post comments that are helpful, so they get that little ^
Post a question on the hour, or 15 minutes past the hour
@Ramanujan nice hat you are wearing there ;-)
08:45
@Willeke thanks! How to get hatters hat?
Last line before I pinged you.
@Willeke which hour?
Any hour it seems, I have not seen indications that the day matters but I have also not seen new hatter hats today.
@Willeke Thanks!
You are welcome
08:47
._.
09:22
got my trendsetter :D
@KazWolfe yep, query for hat 8 is working, thx
Query for Hat 8?
@Willeke I got one today, for a question posted at 9:00:04Z.
@Glorfindel good to know, thanks
@BhargavRao Snaphat has ID 8
09:27
@BhargavRao the 8,2etc?
Ah, The hat IDs.
IDK, Willeke could be right as well.
@BhargavRao yep
it was comments for period 2015-10-15 - 2016-04-27, all comments with 1 or more upvote (for statistics hat) // cc @KazWolfe @BhargavRao
Today I'm a bit free at work. I'll try to FGITW some posts.
The 8,2etc is delete at least comments with at least several upvotes/^
09:29
@BhargavRao it hat 8,243,721
Is the " Where In The World " hat can only be earned on Dec. 21?
Date of the comments not important, it seems
@LloydDominic yes.
@Alex gotcha. Thanks
It seems, and there are more one day only hats.
09:30
So, how could I earn that hat if that "day" is ...
Past. What's the word?
Be on the site every day if you want all hats, bad luck if you come in late.
@BhargavRao you are welcome)
Okay?! ...
I think you also missed the Yule log, but I might be wrong there.
@Willeke Thanks again!
I think the " 8, 243, 721 " and the " 6 " hats, were characters from Sesame Street ...
Am I right? ...
09:33
You can still earn the December 25th hat (Buche de Noel), because it's still December 25th in Hawaii.
@LloydDominic yes, this was already confirmed by a Stack Overflow employee.
@Glorfindel Oh, okay!
*"* **8, 243, 721** *"* is Ernie, while
*"* **6** *"* is Bert
Both from ***Sesame Street***.
*Am I right? ...
@Glorfindel I'm on the day after Christmas, right now!
Thanks @Glorfindel
@LloydDominic it's still possible, see this answer.
Let me see ...
Do we have strong evidence on how to get Don't Wanna Taco 'Bout it? I have edited many a post, newer and older and have not gotten that hat yet.
09:46
By the way, when is the last day of hats?
january 9th, not sure if start or beginning though
"From December 19th through January 8th, you'll be able to earn hats all over the sites"
Any idea how to check if we have 10 upvoted comments?
Ah, Nope. I meant for the "blue in the face" hat.
should work with the same query, just ignore comments before dec 19
and one caveat, data is up to a week out of date
09:59
Yeah, That's the only issue :P
If I award the bounty when there are 23 hours left, do I get the hat?
You should
I am not sure if they mean that UTC or anywhere in the world, that might make a difference.
I plan to offer a bountry that can be awarded on 7 th to 9th of Jan at least and offer it on a Q which already has a decent answer.
And award it when the first hat for awarding bounties has been spotted
10:35
I'd offer a bounty on a question that needs the attention. That will also give a better chance for hat hunters to collect This Is Fine
@janos I did not know about that hat before. Now I'm thinking of converting this comment stackoverflow.com/questions/41215365/… to an answer :D
True, I would also select one that needs attention but if you want to award the bounty, it needs at least one answer. So starting out with an acceptable but not great answer gives you that option as well as allowing people to post to that question to get their hats.
All bounties open on travel last week were of such a difficulty that it is very likely no good answer will be posted.
 
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11:54
Ufff tired of trying for Running Ragged. better I drop the idea to get it
There's plenty of time to get it, if you keep posting good content actively
I have 150 rep on main meta and 150+ on movies.se.
Can't find a third site to hit the bar
Simialrly Loungin' Around is tough too.
Looks like I get all the easy ones now
@BhargavRao If you are looking for your comments on SO, the easiest way is to use the mod menu from your user profile.
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A: deleted comments should show up in user history for moderators

Mad ScientistYou can already do that, but it is a separate moderator tool at user profile -> mod -> info -> comments. You can see either all comments of that user there or only deleted ones.

12:11
@WinEunuuchs2Unix Clearly you haven't read the message when you hover over the comment triangle after clicking on it as being useful - it says "You've voted for this ..."
@orthocresol Awesome, Thanks
@AnkitSharma, about The Hatter... u know how you got it? Is it correct which is mentioned on Meta..?
@AnkitSharma Some other site which you are a moderator on?
Anyone...? how to get The Hatter..?
12:29
for statistics to get a hat 6 need write a comment for the answer which will be edited after comment and will be upvote(not sure about upvote but answer was upvoted) //@KazWolfe
@Alex Can you edit this accordingly? Also: Are you talking about an upvote of the comment or the answer?
@Vikrant See this or its history.
@Wrzlprmft need add comment in doc for hat 6 ?
@Wrzlprmft answer was upvoted, comment not upvoted
@Alex Please report your observations and hypotheses in the linked document.
Hmm, Is the word "NATO" under copyright of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
@BhargavRao Hmm. Maybe not. See this
12:42
Someone has reported this to them stackapps.com/questions/7049/…
@BhargavRao To the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or to the watch company?
To the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
@BhargavRao And they've issued a takedown?
Nope, That user mailed me regarding this
@BhargavRao Ah.
12:47
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an intergovernmental military alliance. NATO or Nato may also refer to: National Association of Theatre Owners, United States NATO (album), an album by Laibach Mora (plant), a tree also known as nato Nato wood, a collective name for wood from Mora and Asian wood == People == n.A.T.o. (singer), Russian singer Norman Nato (born 1992), French professional racing driver == See also == Mediterranean Theater of Operations, originally called the North African Theater of Operations (NATOUSA) nato.0+55+3d, software for realtime video and graphics 5.56×45mm...
There's a lot here
@Wrzlprmft i add comment for hat 6 in doc //@KazWolfe
@Vikrant yes. I purposely posted it on XX:15:XX UTC and got the hat
@BhargavRao Answering there is way tough as I am not scripture expert and for earning 150 rep from question only, I need way many questions
cool @AnkitSharma
@BhargavRao See also acronymfinder.com/NATO.html others are using the same acronym.
Thanks, I'll mail them and nato.int also
13:23
I got only 2 upvoted comments in Winterbash and.. got Blue in the Face!
need to update the Doc and answer on Meta!
I think, the rule is may be like: "Make 10 comments with at least 1 comment upvoted during Winter Bash"
@Vikrant no
you can see my activities on SO
@Vikrant I have 8 and I don't have the hat
2 days ago, by Loong
9 upvoted comments did nothing. 10 upvoted comments resulted in the hat.
I have the hat in movies.se. Anyone can check my activity, bit busy to check myself
13:30
@AnkitSharma oh, was that for me?
for the on going discussion on blue hat
ohk, but I am pretty sure, I haven't got any 2 digits upvotes in Bash period
who said 2 digit upvote
I am sure it was 10 comment with at-least one upvote
@AnkitSharma exactly!! That's what I m saying
I have 10 upvoted comment with upvote ( one is deleted now)
 
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14:42
@Loong Can confirm that now. :D
ok
15:12
0
Q: Why isn't winterba.sh being used for Winter Bash?

PandaRecently, I found out from a blog post that Winter Bash 2012 used quite an interesting domain, http://winterba.sh. Just curious, why isn't it being reused, since it's a fitting domain name and that it's redirected to stackpromos.com?

 
2 hours later…
17:16
are we sure the hatter is for any hour/quarter/half? or does it need to be the friday at 6 thing
because all the known occurences have been when it's friday at 6 somewhere
I got it when it wasn't Friday anywhere
Nevermind, I'm an idiot
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17:31
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Thanks for starring that. :P
wasn't me actually
IIRC, the starring information is not secret. But I do not know how to find it out.
@DJMcMayhem nor was it I.
but I can unstar it for you.
17:47
nah, leave it
his shame must stay as a monument
@David nah, it's fine
It's funny
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ it's not as bad as the last time my shame was starred
in Charcoal HQ, Oct 10 at 17:29, by SmokeDetector
@DJMcMayhem It's DJMcMayhem's fault.
18:06
For those of you who get tired of seeing hats but still want to be able to earn them: good news.
why would you want to not see hats o_O
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@Glorfindel actually I dont think that was an original question, I remember reading about that in past WBs
If you can find a duplicate (on Meta Stack Overflow), I'd be happy to close it.
@Glorfindel it's great that you tested that
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ we have hat haters all around SE networks
lol
18:21
got the hatter from this challenge, wonder why we didn't see any occurences of the hatter before friday?
@DavidPostill As an answer?
@AndrewLi What are you referring to?
@AndrewL You should post that as an answer. — DavidPostill 1 min ago
Ok, will do
@AndrewLi Yeah, turn the content of the link into a proper answer :)
I didn't recognise you over there (your name is different) :/
@DavidPostill Yep. I dunno what happened but my name is different. Too lazy to change it ;)
19:07
@DavidPostill superuser.com/a/1160409/605470 anything I should add or clarify?
any theories on bert?
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ is he 6 or 8 million?
6
8 mil is delete 5 comments on the same post iirc
@KritixiLithos aha! I'm completely above you.
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ not on the same post. it seems to be cleanup crew.
oh, cool
I have that
they were all on the smae post though
19:21
huh. it seems as though a lot of hats this year were present last year...
yeah
maverick was last year's flying tiger also
so what hats aren't accounted for? (looking at Hat 41)
And the Red Baron also.
19:59
hey hat hunters
I can confirm that the trendsetter is related with changing hats since that was my only action today so far
oh it is already confirmed :D
20:15
@AndrewL Looks good. Haven't got the time right now to go over what the OP said in the comments.
@DavidPostill Seems to be a problem. The OPs machine is a bit wonky. Working it out in chat ATM
@AndrewL OK. Good luck :)
@DavidPostill Looks like the OP just missed the entry under the list, all seems well. Thanks :)
 
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23:09
Should I make a meta post asking "which hats are reused from last year"?

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