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00:09
And so it begins the last day of hats.
:(
 
1 hour later…
01:28
so bounties work now?
yeah, they do
02:14
@alecxe congrats. you got em all!
02:30
@David thanks, congrats on getting them all too! :)
was a fun winter bash event this year
though had a hope more secret hats would unexpectedly appear..
@alecxe sure was.
do you happen to remember the last time all the hats were gotten?
IMO next year more hats would be nice, maybe on the order of 50
@David not 2 years ago iirc
idk about 2013
that is what I thought 13 was the last time
but I have not checked yet
and now it's just impossible to imagine SE without hats :)
:)
was fun.
02:36
Congrats @David and @alecxe for them all!
I could not of hoped for anything better.
I got more then last year (goal one). I got 40 (goal 2) and I came in first (goal 3)
:34625807 apparently you have not been around my typing enough yet.
@AndrewLi thanks! Definitely could not have made it without the chat and the help of all others.
this bash has been everything I could of wanted (except the bathtub)
We need more secret hats!
@alecxe very true. not having a hat to guess the secret hats really helped in getting the secret hats.
02:38
:)
I didn't even know there was a hat for guessing secrets
Was a fun experience
@AndrewLi you're new. twas tradition. Only the elite of the hat nuts could get one.
(I got 2 last year)
"your" ;)
sigh.
If only I joined SO earlier
02:41
@alecxe do you have all on SO?
oh yeah, not having that hat for guessing a secret hat definitely helped to not be the second - no chance with David in these kind of things
Was 2013 the first WB year?
@AndrewLi hmm, I'd have to check.
@David nope, I think I missed that First Responder
I think so, but there was one before that, but it was different.
02:42
IIRC that was the first WB I remember seeing
@alecxe Oh, so I'll have more on my home site :)
Do I look better in Guy's look or Hatter?
Also, does this chat room just go dead for a year?
I think there is a new chat room every year
@AndrewLi for ever. I'll make a new one for next year.
02:45
@AndrewLi lol
@AndrewLi PS the space in "for ever" is for you :)
@David your a monster
:D
lol
I would be able to get away from that one. will I?
@David how dare you forget your capitalization
2

David's hat store

The Winter Bash 2015! We talk hats, period... and more hats. w...
you can still get to 2015's
It's so sad :(
02:47
and this is 2016's room.
so guess what will come next year...
@AndrewLi i ALWAYS USE PROPER CAPITALIZATION.
iS YOU'RE CAPSLOCK BURKEN?
*I awLlWAyZ U sE PorpER CaPtzLokIlIZaTION
At least I got all the secret hats
02:51
@AndrewLi ˙ǝuᴉɟ ƃuᴉʞɹoʍ ǝɹɐ pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ uo sʎǝʞ ǝɥʇ llɐ
@AndrewLi wow that is ridiculous.
Uh oh spam flags
who would flag that?
Huh. So that's what flags sound like
02:55
@AndrewLi what do you mean?
@David When someone flags your chat message it pings and then is blue. It also highlights which message was flagged
Cool beans
Anyways, a mod just joined and left. Probably here to stop my zalgo text.
so somebody does NOT like zalgo
@AndrewLi I saw, he also deleted 10Replies's message
What a tragedy :(
lol
@AndrewLi actually you got 2 flags on that one!
Is the threshold like 3 or something? I heard I get kicked
02:59
6 regular user flags, or one mod
Man...
Better be more careful with my zalgo
that is the threshold for a auto timeout
would be 30 min first time
anyway TTFN
Bye o/
Okay, guys, it was a very fun Winter Bash and thanks for being collaborative and helpful! Happy New Year and hope to see you during the WB 2017-2018. Bye!
*sigh* Just one vote between me and the whole set...
03:50
@AlexanderO'Mara You can do it! I believe in you!
@AndrewLi Gah! Someone else upvoted my answer, and not the question...
D:
@AlexanderO'Mara Kinda feel like my answer is a big wall of text that adds nothing new ;-;
It's +4 now ;)
!!!! Someone upvoted the question !!!!
!!!!
Congrats!!!
03:56
*waits for :04*
Or is it 00:05?
Congrats! :D
Congrats on all hats!
Thanks!
This is the first time I really tried to get them all.
It's been a great WB
03:58
^
My first though
Me too
:)
You got all of 'em @AlexanderO'Mara :D
@AndrewLi Yep!
Try it on :o
04:00
Blasted chat lag... I already put it on.
Lol ;)
Looks cool
Really fits haha
Ugh. I should've gotten Lifesaver :(
Hat lag?
No. I can't get the OPs attention
Oh, I managed it get it on Ask Different
04:04
What's the key to getting egoist?
But it's just luck
It's hard to ask a good question on my main site SO
Self-answer on Meta SE
What topic?
Something about extra criteria for hats
04:05
Could answer this myself
Yup ;)
But how?
Maybe some solution to the problem
Hard to beat Bluefeet's answer
Yea, but you just need +3
04:07
Sure
I couldn't rep cap at all for this WB, let alone 3 times ;)
D:
Go to SO
I'm not good in JS, so it's quite difficult to answer good questions
I'm not good at much, but researching is a good thing
Yea
04:09
this was all research
Lol, great answer
Finding good questions to answer is always a hard thing on sites like SO
Yea, most are dups
04:24
@Panda Let's hope it works: meta.stackexchange.com/a/289514/332767
@AndrewLi Good luck! And good summary, +1 from me :)
Thanks
:D
Np :P
 
4 hours later…
08:08
Philantropist hat out??
08:55
yes
I got my Philantropist.
I'm missing just Maverick. Probably not going to get it.
me too
I missed many :(
got 35 only
 
7 hours later…
15:38
iirc I got 37
missing they live, mild mannered, 3 times the charm, and maverick
15:52
I'm missing 5 - running ragged, hero of questions, maverick, loungin' around and this is fine ...
lounging around wasn't hard
neither was hero of questions
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Yeah, I couldn't think of a good question to ask on SU (which hasn't already been asked)
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ That is also not easy to get on SU as I do the max reviews every day so there aren't many closed questions I haven't voted on ...
16:10
I need one more uv on a meta.se answer of mine for egoist...
@AndrewLi Not any more ...
16:30
@DavidPostill :D
Now to get lifesaver in 7.5 hours...
16:44
@DavidPostill ah, I see
@AlexanderO'Mara congratulations! welcome to first place.
@DavidPostill this is fine is easy on SO. Just go to the bounty page and answer one that is ending soonish.
@David I only write good answers ...
@DavidPostill that is a good thing, make a good one. but one one that already has a beter answer :)
my first attempt at that hat got me the bounty :)
17:03
stackoverflow.com/questions/41466653/… My maverick candidate question lacks many votes for the question and one for my answer. I guess this wasn't meant to be.
:(
4 more vote for question apparently, 0 more for answer though?
I just got the 5th for the answer. Whoever it was, thanks! The question needs to get to +4 though, since my vote doesn't count.
ah
wait it doesn't?
:/
It doesn't
I wouldn't be surprised if it gets the votes eventually, due to the bounty I placed, but it would be too late for the hat
18:01
I got a little closer. 4 question upvotes to go. So close and yet so far
18:29
@Eran Where?
@AndrewLi The question link from a few posts up
I guess it would have been easier if I started with a -3 question instead of a -5 question. I actually had to get the question undeleted (I asked the OP to undelete) and re-opened (I just cast one vote to re-open and luckily by the next day 4 more people voted to re-open) before I could answer it.
Woah +8/-7
Yeah
Wow, +1. Thanks :) 3 more to go. One of those downvotes came recently.
+2
I need one upvote on those two answers for the Fiery Five hat: stackoverflow.com/a/41493001/995926 stackoverflow.com/a/41492812/995926
@Eran link? answer or question needs an vote?
@rekire it's on my post from 19:03. Just the question please.
18:40
done
@rekire Also done
thanks!
your welcome ;) thx
I more question vote to go
I meant 1 more question vote to go :), and then I'll have all the hats. So close
19:10
@rekire So, are you trying to get more hats before the end?
19:31
I can't get rest of the 5 hats :(
Perhaps you can get some of them. Which ones are you lacking?
Hi All, any idea on running ragged?
ugh, hit enter too fast
.... does MSE count?
@Eran They Live, This Is Fine, Mild Mannered, Maverick and Lifesaver
@SouravGhosh Yes it does. It was one of my 3 sites
@SouravGhosh yes main meta count for running ragged.
@Eran mine too
19:35
@AnkitSharma You have both of the Bert/Ernie ones?
@Catija yes
Only left this 5
I just got 6 on M&TV... again, no clue as to why...
me too, still no idea about 6 :D
@AnkitSharma do you have 2k rep on any site? You'll need to review suggested edits for They Live. As for This is Fine, I have a bounty on MSE on the suggestions for next year's Winterbash. If you post an answer that gets upvoted and I award the bounty to some other answer this evening you will get it.
@Eran I have done many suggested edit stuff
19:39
Can I please get an upvote on this question - stackoverflow.com/questions/41466653/… ? I won't get any rep for it.
@AnkitSharma Yeah, I did 20 suggested edit reviews a couple of time before I got it. Not sure what the exact trigger is.
@Eran OK, thanks
@AnkitSharma Thanks for the info, let's see. :)
Thanks!
@Eran done
@Eran hmm
I can't believe I got them all. Thanks for the help.
@AnkitSharma Thanks!
holy shit
@Eran nice!
congrats on tieing for #1!
19:45
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Thanks! I could never have done it without the help I got on this chat (and not just this hat - I got a lot of hints for the secrets hats from here).
ah
I gave up a while ago lol
missing 2 secret 2 non-secret
maverick + third time's the charm
And which secret ones?
they live + mild mannered
Third time a charm was easy for me
it's pretty much impossible to get mild mannered and they live on PPCG
and for the most part, you have to already have a lot of rep to get more :(
19:47
@AnkitSharma Actually it was harder than usual this year.
there's a serious voting bias
@Eran I answered few questions and they hit HNQ. Was easy for me on Movies.se
my top 2 answers are 18 and 51, everything else is like 3-5
1 mortarboard ever, on any site
I'm just not good at gaining rep ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ Actually Mild Mannered would have been easier for me in my earlier days on SO, when I was answering questions of some low visibility tags and got very few upvotes.
ah
lifesaver was really easy for me, strangely enough
got it on arqade
running ragged wasn't really hard either, gaming seems to be really conducive to lots of rep
19:49
I tried Lifesafer with two questions. Both got accepted. One got an upvote (which got my Lifesafer) and the other didn't (which got me Mild Mannered)
@Eran done
Mild Mannered I could see happening on PPCG with a self answer on a hard challenge but I don't know if they count
@AnkitSharma I will award the bounty soon. Anyone who wants "This Is Fine" hat should post an answer to the suggestions for next year's Winterbash post on MSE.
@quartata self answers no
@Eran nice
did 2 more suggested edits, still not triggered
20:02
@AnkitSharma Did you focus on improve and edit/reject and edit?
not really
Did improved and approve more
nevermind, time to sleep now
Good night/day everyone
Good night
g'night/day
it's noon here
May I ask for a help (shameless) for what's up doc?
My contributions are not eligible for obtaining the hat....
they don't go to review queue
20:22
@Eran congrats on all hats!
@Eran just if I don't need to invest much time... oh too late gn8 ;)
@AndrewLi Thanks
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So long and thanks for the hats!
@Eran nice collection
Thanks. I wanted to have a souvenir. I also did one last year, though it was less complete.
20:31
Good night
@Eran I've added an answer but it needs an upvote ...
Rats, I'm to late :(
20:45
its time to bounty right?
lol
You have a few more hours.
For those who do not yet have Fiery, I will upvote and give the bonus to one answer, so if you place two.... travel.stackexchange.com/questions/84990/…
21:56
Last call for that bountied answer. I will go to bed soon, if no answer is in before the next new hour, I will not be able to award bounties before tomorrow, when it is too late for the hat.
Bounty will certainly be awarded if a new answer shows up.
@Eran welcome to the top.
Or am I breaking rules by puting my bragging out on the net.
22:36
@Willeke not at all!
Why would that be against the rules?
well the bash is done
the fun was a ton
in an hour all the hats will be none
three cheers for all the WB fun!
(and the four that won)
3
22:57
Its not over yet!
@Catija, there can be copy right or traditional 'do not do this' reasons I did not catch yet.
@bluefeet I have some suggestions for the blog post and meta post. You need lots of pictures, and numbers. Everybody already knows the bash is over, we all want to know the specifics. How many of each hat were gotten. The triggers of the secret hats. Funny pictures of how the hats were worn.
Didn't they do all of that last year anyway?
pops did, but every CM is different.
Ah well, I will stop there at 39 hats. That was really fun to participate for the first time, I really liked it :)
23:11
@David We'll have a closing blog post up tomorrow, then I'll be writing an additional post on MSE later this week with more stats.
@bluefeet awesome! thanks
@Willeke keep lots of pictures!
@David for dramatic effect, you could have clicked "I hate hats" after scrolling down the huge list of hats you've gotten
Ah ah XD
@X-27 I should of crossed it out.
23:28
@David I hate to ruin your screenshot, but I'm about to rise on the leader board...
@David Also modified it sadly.
well it is not hard to make another.
Ugh.
Only 23 minutes left
Hope my browser is not gonna refresh in 23 minutes, still making the pics for each hat
@Isuka if you do not refresh the page (say your profile) it will stay.
23:38
@David Thought so, then it's perfect. :)
but if you are taking action (say changing your hats) that will reload the page, and poof.
Uh oh
I'm not, it should be fine. Just staying in the modifying menu.
Note for myself for next year: do not take an avatar with a character who already has an hat.
11 minutes left
grab as many hat memories now while you still can!!!
10
PS the leader board will stay there.
wrong image
updated leader board page.
23:58
2 more minutes :(
@David that is how it is done.
1 more
I WILL NEVER SAY GOODBYE TO HATS!!!
Go on SE - just TRY to take them!!!!

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