Ye Olde Hat Shoppe

X-27

00:17

How many people here have accounts on World Building?

5

Winter is finally upon us! With winter comes a delightful break from the year-round torment of bugs flying your face. Winter is cold - as a result, you can peacefully breathe the winter air without having to worry about inhaling swarms of bugs. Then the thought occurred to me: Could there be a ...

Not that I'm asking for votes or anything, but in the hypothetical circumstance where that post got a score of +10, I'd have the loungin-around hat.

which is only 5 more Uvs...

Andrew Li

How the heck does one get Maverick

X-27

you need some ingenuity...

as in, two or three people DV before you post the answer, and then they reverse their votes.

Andrew Li

Just got back from my vacation and ready to go on a hat comeback spree

X-27

@AndrewLi do you have a WB account?

Andrew Li

No

X-27

00:21

aww...

Yepeyy! just 4 more Uvs needed!

DavidPostill

Hypothetically, if I get 3 more votes on this answer I would get a 24 badge ...

Andrew Li

Woah cool answer @DavidPostill

DavidPostill

@X-27 :)

X-27

@DavidPostill I don't have a hypothetical Super User account :/

I missed that...

DavidPostill

Fortunately I have accounts everywhere so I can flag spam :)

Andrew Li

00:23

^

I did a purge of my accounts on communities I'm not active recently

X-27

well, not like I'd ever post anything on that site, but it wouldn't hurt to coincidentally make an account there at this particular time for no particular reason...

Andrew Li

Why hasn't anybody answered this :(

X-27

There - now you only need one more Uv.

bleh

00:39

@DavidPostill that's ur 24 hat

X-27

@DavidPostill congratulations! you now (will have) all the hats!

assuming you vote on the date specific days....

@bleh would you help me with loungin-around?

21 mins ago, by X-27

Not that I'm asking for votes or anything, but in the hypothetical circumstance where that post got a score of +10, I'd have the loungin-around hat.

bleh

3 more

X-27

to this post

thanks! :)

oh wait, @DavidPostill you still need Maverick

piRSquared

What does it take to get a star on a message?

show me where to go

X-27

thanks!

piRSquared

00:46

no no... that was a great question

Andrew Li

Do I get "this is fine" if I start the bounty myself?

X-27

It was, and World Building questions like that are notorious for getting on the HNQ list.

bleh

@AndrewLi probably... who knows

X-27

except that this is not only a weekend, but also Near Year's eve, and SE probably has the lowest traffic today out of any day of the year. (aside from maybe Christmas)

@AndrewLi I wouldn't think so, that would make to too easy.

piRSquared

@AndrewLi post something reasonable on this question and I promise not to award you the bounty ;-) stackoverflow.com/q/41269644/2336654

DavidPostill

00:49

@X-27 I have 10 more to get or so ...

Andrew Li

@piRSquared problem is I don't known pandas

X-27

@DavidPostill no - aside from the date specific ones which you can get effortlessly, you only need one still: Maverick.

piRSquared

@X-27 he needs plenty of secret hats

bleh

@DavidPostill Hatter is pretty easy to get

wait 10 minutes

Andrew Li

I'm going on a hat hunting spree

DavidPostill

00:51

@bleh Yeah, I know. When I've got a good question I will go for it.

Andrew Li

at least 6 easy ones I can get today

X-27

Oh! nevermind - I was confusing your avatar with alexander-omara

bleh

@AndrewLi did u lose the chance to get buche de noel?

Andrew Li

I just need +28 on PPCG

DavidPostill

@X-27 No. I still need many others ;p

Andrew Li

00:51

@bleh I got it

bleh

oh ok

Andrew Li

What is a good PPCG challenge?

bleh

Make it easy and original

something you would click on if it was an hnq

Andrew Li

I think mine are original (dunno about easy)

Mark

Is there a dedicated room for spamming to get the "First Responder" hat?

5

DJMcMayhem

00:53

26

Q: Secret Santa's Sandbox

AKA: The Regifting of the White Elephants Note - I'm not sure this is on-topic or not on meta, but it seems to be as good a place as any. Comment if you disagree. I have a few challenges that I have posted to the sandbox and then more-or-less forgotten. Some of these challenges are OK; some n...

discussion sandbox

Andrew Li

I finally got one answer on my latest challenge

bleh

@Mark here

exc no spamming

Mark

Thanks.

X-27

@Mark naa, but you can just post any random message here and we hat maniacs will be more than happy to star it.

Mark

And on a totally different subject, do the hat changes for "Trendsetter" need to all be on the same site?

bleh

00:56

52

Q: Discouraging "soul-selling" for hats

Winter Bash 2016 has started, and is in full swing. I love hats as much as the next person, but can't help notice some "soul-selling" for them (which I am also guilty for). By "soul-selling" I mean things such as votes not based on content ("This is Fine" for example, and for badges and thus, hat...

discussion winterbash-2016

X-27

37 mins ago, by X-27

Not that I'm asking for votes or anything, but in the hypothetical circumstance where that post got a score of +10, I'd have the loungin-around hat.

:)

DJMcMayhem

In retrospect, it's weird that as a kid I thought completely random outbursts made me seem interesting, given that from an information theory point of view, lexical white noise is just about the opposite of interesting by definition.

bleh

@Mark yes

DJMcMayhem

Star pls? :P

bleh

sigh

DJMcMayhem

00:57

Haha

X-27

We're all idiots around here - Colin Furze

piRSquared

@X-27 imo you are merely advertising views. people can upvote or downvote as they please

X-27

@piRSquared Yes. very true.

I have been very careful to technically not ask for votes. just point people in the right direction.

bleh

just posted that one

piRSquared

no different then my putting a bounty on a question in hopes for maverick... which sadly, I mis-understood the requirements for the hat.

X-27

00:59

lol

Andrew Li

reee

piRSquared

see, I don't have to worry about selling my soul... it's already been sold

X-27

yikes...

I sure hope you got a really good price...

bleh

@piRSquared to hats

X-27

lol

Yes! one more UV for the score to reach +10!

thanks to whoever just did that!

bleh

01:03

hand is itching to edit and dv

Andrew Li

Lounging around is ez

X-27

@bleh is it that bad?

bleh

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Q: Discouraging "soul-selling" for hats

Winter Bash 2016 has started, and is in full swing. I love hats as much as the next person, but can't help notice some "soul-selling" for them (which I am also guilty for). By "soul-selling" I mean things such as votes not based on content ("This is Fine" for example, and for badges and thus, hat...

discussion winterbash-2016

3

X-27

Wow - that has been posted here now 4 times in the last few minutes! maybe we can just pin it over there? >>>

Andrew Li

Agree :)

bleh

01:07

agree

MasterBob

01:56

Hello

Anybody here?

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

yes

MasterBob

I really need a star in SO

not here

I

I'll just go to the JS chat

see ya, and plz give me star :D

wait

nvm

Hats Stack Exchange

03:18

0

Q: Why didn't I get the Running Ragged hat?

I read through this post which states that the bug has been fixed, but I didn't receive my Running Ragged hat. Here's the reputation from PPCG, SU, and Meta.SE: Everything added up gives +152 for PPCG, +150 for SU, and +402 for Meta.SE over the span of 12 days (21st to 1st UTC). Why wasn't I...

support winterbash-2016

X-27

03:29

Disclaimer: I'm not asking for a vote - but coincidentally, one more UV on this post would give me the Loungin' Around hat.

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

04:00

that's asking for votes >_>

user65768

No clearly they said they weren't.

X-27

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ I was merely stating that one more vote would yield that hat...

Brian

04:41

Happy new year, hat lovers!

X-27

Happy New Year Everyone!

going by UTC time, we're 15 minutes away from being 5 hours into the New Year.

Andrew Li

05:58

2 more minutes for me!

Happy new year \o/

RamenChef

Happy new year to all you UTC-6 folks!

Andrew Li

@RamenChef :D

You too!

Eran

06:21

Happy new year everyone!

Emily M

Does anyone know if there is a room for getting stars for the new years hat

aka the First Responder hat?

PaladiN

06:43

@EmilyM You need to post in any of the Chat Room before 12 UTC and your post needs to be starred by others.

v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋

👋≧◉ᴥ◉≦ Happy New Year from India! (っ＾▿＾)۶🍸🌟🍺٩(˘◡˘ )

PaladiN

@EmilyM This is the sample of the star that needs to be starred.

v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋

plz, mark my above comment STARed, new yea ww

Andrew Li

@EmilyM IIRC there's a room called Star Bait here on Meta.SE

PaladiN

@v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋ Your chat needs to be useful to others if they want to star your chats.

v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋

06:45

ohhkzz

Right

Andrew Li

@Eran You're a java person right?

Would this be a dupe of this?

Eran

07:06

@AndrewLi I don't think that's an accurate duplicate. The main issue is int literals vs. long literals. The OP didn't expect an overflow, since they stored the result in a long variable.

v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋

11:54

It's important to get message Starred in +12 / -12 Hours

2

Victor Techman

ohk

X-27

14:21

Got the Loungin' Around hat! thanks guys!

nitsua60

@X-27 What's loungin' around?

X-27

this hat

brb/bbl

Marius

15:57

@v́̎̈́̀̽̏̿̏͋ yes. it is. any idea how I can do that? :D

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

16:08

too late now

Marius

oh yeah, damn it

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

it was 4 hours ago

piRSquared

16:35

Happy New Year!!! If anyone wants to look at my question posted from the app. Upvote as you see fit. TYVM stackoverflow.com/q/41410178/2336654

winterbash2016.stackexchange.com/loungin-around

Hats Stack Exchange

0

Q: Why isn't there a flipping option for Winter Bash hats?

Some hats are asymmetric, as are some avatars. Rotation helps some, but really, we need the option of flipping the hat as well. Just look at my avatar with the Sherlock Holmes hat. I want the looking glass over my eye! (Actually, there's also the issues of hats assuming the avater is a face loo...

feature-request winterbash-2016

0

Q: Maverick Hat BOUNTY rules?

The following is the procedure needed in order to win the coveted Maverick hat during Winter Bash 2016/17 Find a question that is scored -3. Answer it. Wait until your answer is scored +5 and the question is scored +3. HAT! source What happens in a bounty scenario? Let's...

discussion bounty winterbash winterbash-2016

Hats Stack Exchange

16:48

0

Q: My Answer has met the criteria for the Maverick hat. Yet, I have no hat

More efficient way to clean a column of strings and add a new column Was a -3 question in which I answered and has subsequently become a 3+ question along with my answer becoming 5+. Are there other criteria that aren't listed? Is it possible the periodic criteria checker has skipped it for so...

bug winterbash-2016

Himarm

18:15

for THIS IS FINE hat, can i bounty my own question, and then self answer?

David

@Himarm I was curious about that too, be seeing as how you can not give a bounty to your self, I doubt it.

If you try it please let me know how it turned out

David

18:32

wish I was on, when those maverick questions were posted, easy to answer all of them.

Andrew Li

20:52

@David maverick questions?

Willeke

21:03

Someone asked that (self answer and get hat) and it was said it does not work.

Andrew Li

21:57

Where is everyone?

Willeke

Sleeping off last night?

Andrew Li

darn

Willeke

I am hoping for two upvotes on each of two answers in Travel. It looks like just two people peaked into the You are here (travel) chat. (And neither in a mood to upvote my answers.)

Andrew Li

@Willeke I was hoping for some visibility on my SO answer here. Only 8 views and it's been an hour :(

Willeke

I had a look, but that is all I can do. I do not understand enough of the subjects in SO to even consider signing up.

Andrew Li

22:04

Thanks :D

I might sign up on Travel

How does someone search for bountied questions on Travel?

Willeke

You are sure to know something about some parts of the world. Certainly the one you live.

They are featured.

Andrew Li

Ok

Willeke

travel.stackexchange.com/?tab=featured

Andrew Li

Might answer this one

Willeke

The one I would like votes is not on the list anymore, as it is now waiting.

Andrew Li

22:07

Maybe this one too

Willeke

All competition there is welcome. I only wrote the answer to get the hat, still as good as I can write it but a better candidate will give me more hat chance.

You are sure to get something out of it. Bonuses are high as several of these questions have been bonused before and did not get good answers.

Andrew Li

hmmm

Willeke

I got a bonus on an answer I was sure to get a hat on.

Andrew Li

!

Willeke

This is what I did next, I think OP and bonus giver did not like the answers: travel.stackexchange.com/questions/80031/…

Andrew Li

22:11

I know some Chinese for this one but I don't understand the question

Willeke

The guy asking also knows some Chinese, he is very precise in the area he wants the words for, general Chinese will not do.

Andrew Li

I'm of Chinese descent

Willeke

That may help you here.

Andrew Li

So is it just asking for a complete list of Chinese/Taiwanese accommodations?

Willeke

He is looking for the common words for a cheap place to stay in taiwan.

Not places to stay, just the characters used localy

Andrew Li

22:14

Might be able to answer when I get time

Willeke

Say for cheap hotel, for hostel, for bed and breakfast, for a place to put your sleeping bag on the floor, all that kind. Not the easy to find hotels.

That would be great. I like the question but it is a difficult one.

I think it is funny I have almost all secret hats and struggle with some that seem much easier.

Andrew Li

Last one I need is "This is Fine"

Got all the others

bleh

and epiphany

Andrew Li

No, secret hats

bleh

oh ok

Andrew Li

22:19

For the glossary request one, I just don't have time to compile a list.

Willeke

I have this is fine but on the 'wrong' site. Same with snapshat and mild mannered.

Andrew Li

What do you mean wrong site

Willeke

If you can answer with a few, you can update later.

I got them on other sites than travel, where I have most hats.

So I have them in the overal competition, which I will not win.

Andrew Li

There are 41 hats in total right now

Willeke

But not on travel where I am head of the leaderboard with someone trying to catch up.

Andrew Li

22:24

I plan to get up to 38 by the 5th. Then I need Maverick and Tumbleweed :/

Willeke

I have 30, I will not get 2 or 3, as I am not going to do anything with docs, nor with the 'whatever'story.

Tumbleweed will be impossible on travel, maverick will be very hard.

I am shared #17 overal.

Travel is my best site, I think the Workspace does better overal, but the people there do not like my straightforward Dutch advice. -3 on my answer there.

Andrew Li

heh

Isuka

Ah ah. Trying to get "This is fine" on Arqade too. If I manage to get one upvote, which is still unsure.

Willeke

Nice chatting but it is time to go to bed, boss expectes me in less than 8 hours.

Good day/night. And a good 2017

Isuka

Good night Willeke.

Andrew Li

22:31

Bye!

Isuka

Same to you!

Andrew Li

That was directed to Willeke ;)

Willeke

:)

Isuka

That was also directed to Willeke ;)

"Same to you!" was for the good 2017 :p

Andrew Li

!

Isuka

22:34

Ah ah. Happens.

pinckerman

23:08

was "they live" finally discovered? I don't understand bluefeet hint

David

23:52

@AndrewLi the ones on meta

where people are asking why I didn't get the hat

@pinckerman nope. has something to do with suggested edits, but that is about all we know

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