#WB17

DavidPostill

00:01

@David Didn't work for me :/ I guess I answered at the wrong time (before it got to -3) but I can't be sure.

Monica Cellio

00:42

I thought this answer would be a good candidate for Extra Toppings, as the accepted answer is weak. No traction, though -- apparently most of the community on The Workplace only uses the site from work and people are off for holidays. :-)

X-27

@David Whoa - you're nearly at the top of that cliff. Only 3 more to go until B.SE wins the bash :)

meta.stackexchange.com/a/304341/182566 97 score!

Monica Cellio

@X-27 so close! (I can only vote once. :-) )

X-27

@MonicaCellio I already did too :)

Can we make duplicate accounts? XD

Monica Cellio

That would be unwise. :-)

X-27

Ahh well... I need to find other people with more than 15 rep on the meta to recruit to vote!

David

01:05

@DavidPostill yah I think so.

Li357

01:24

Yay! Already 3 UVs on my SO self-answer

Li357

01:34

And I unintentionally got Hero of Time

David

01:44

@Li357 yha thats awesome. I did that too. I was asking on scifi (to get trendsetter) and I happened to get the 7:00 hat too.

@Li357 just UVed you should get the selfi now.

X-27

@David All but one of the people I've talked to either don't use Stack Exchange, or do so without an account.

But out of nearly 3,200 people, I'm sure there would be 3 people who could upvote that. But I don't really want to put out a video saying, "Go vote on David's post so he can win the Winter Bash!"

David

@X-27 lol

Li357

1. Create 3 sock puppets. 2. Ask two questions and let your sock puppets answer 3. Upvote them all 4. Upvote yourself on WB post 5. Profit

X-27

@Li357 That is really shady...

I'd prefer to upoad a video begging for votes XD

David

@Li357 you do know I am a mod right?

Li357

01:55

@David Even better

David

lol

Li357

@X-27 But hats

X-27

@Li357 I understand completely - I was a hat nut in past years - and have asked some really, really interesting questions to get hats XD

David

@Li357 (I know you are only joking) but it is exactly stuff like that, which is making SE wonder if they should even do the WB.

Li357

62

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...

X-27

01:57

12

Q: How can I add a cube?

I am trying to add cubes to my scene. I'm sure there are lots of ways to get a cube into the scene (but for the purposes of this question, I have no idea what they are) - Are there any ways to add a cube that are easier than using the python console and manually adding them by using this command?...

python modeling objects workflow

Li357

Me last year

Lolwut

David

@Li357 you posted that?

X-27

Yes.... how to add a cube.

Li357

@David That was me yes

X-27

Got loads of answers, really fast

I forget which hat that was for :)

Li357

01:59

shift a > mesh > cube?!!?one

David

@Li357 why do people use different chat profiles then their accounts?

@X-27 the pizza (5 answer in under 30 mins)

X-27

yah, that one! :)

Li357

@David Well I changed my username/etc on SO and it got weird on chat

The pizza one was that? I don't remember that one

X-27

The Archimedes was still my favotire hat, ever.

David

@Li357 I can show a picture, if you dont believe me... :)

X-27

02:01

It fit perfectly with my specially made avatar:

David

from 2014

Li357

Huh

Oh 2014

I didn't participate until 2016

I remember Snapchat I think

David

oh so your "one of the new guys"

Li357

I GOT SILENCIUM!
ON SO!

@David At least I was dedicated last year

David

@Li357 nice. from what?

Li357

02:04

The self q&a!

3 hats in one!

David

@Li357 sweet!

@Li357 39 out of 41. not bad for your first year!

007 was one of the harder ones for me.

Li357

Yeah

I was pretty proud

That google doc was the best

David

only year we had such a thing

Li357

I wasn't there on the first day to create it this year but it seems like there are less people participating in WB this year

David

@Li357 there are. also the secret hats are easier to figure out. ( mother of dragons was the only one that we had to really figure) and even at that I figured it out in about an hour after its first appearance.

Li357

02:11

Yeah. Not as exciting

David

no, but it is understandable.

too much bad behavior going around for hats.

Li357

True

The last regular hat I can plausibly get is the Brunhilde

X-27

@David Bad behavior? That is what made previous years fun!

Li357

Heh

David

@X-27 no, it was not.

@Li357 post a picture of the bash page, winterbash2017.stackexchange.com its too hard for me to try to figure out which ones you still have left to get.

Li357

02:16

I guess I can go for Waffles

Extra toppings **

David

@Li357 yah the pizza is the easiest one you have left to get.

Li357

Oh boy

X-27

04:44

@David Just two votes away!!!

A J

05:17

@David Thanks

Mithrandir

08:33

Trying for both Silencium and Waffles - meta.stackexchange.com/questions/305244/…

Eran

@Mithrandir You got my votes. Good luck

Mithrandir

Thanks! :)

Eran

I'm also going to keep trying for Silencium till the bitter end. I'm not trying for Fashionable though. Viral questions are not my thing.

Mithrandir

Heh. I got that one fairly quickly, because my attempt for Hero of Time went nuts :P

But Explorer and Universe Brain seem to be out of my reach :(

Eran

I got explorer twice, even though it took a long time. I got lucky with Universe Brain.

Mithrandir

08:48

:|

I'm not active on SO, so no clueless users for me.

The one tag I follow on SO usually just has crap questions.

Mithrandir

09:03

Welp. Strike that Silencium try.

Eran

I'm expecting another secret hat (possibly the last one) within an hour.

Silencium is nearly impossible

Mithrandir

09:53

Okay, new try for Silencium...

DavidPostill

Going for sherlock on Super User ...

@Mithrandir One step closer :)

Mithrandir

@DavidPostill you're now 2/6 of the way there

DavidPostill

:)

I'm stupid. If I'd waited for 5 minutes I would have got Hero of Time :/

Mithrandir

Ouch.

DavidPostill

10:19

@Mithrandir hahahahaha. lol. That question has gone HNQ!

Mithrandir

Ha! :D

I just need it to get another 2 votes without any comments... and then have the hat be awarded before HNQ people start commenting.

...too late

It got a comment. >.<

*sigh*

Mithrandir

10:34

Okay... yet another try :D

Willeke

10:58

I expect we will see the first NY hats soon.

11 AM in the UK, means that the new day is starting in those island nations that moved the date line to be the first to meet the new millenium.

Almost I should have said.

DavidPostill

12:16

Got Sherlock. Now if the hat haters will refrain from commenting I might get Silencium :)

Eran

@DavidPostill Here, I got you a little bit closer

DavidPostill

:)

Willeke

I got Silencium as a surprise, did not even know what you needed and got it as one of the first hats.

Mithrandir

Nice!

I still need another 4 votes on Movies.SE...

And still another 3 here... literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1641/…

Willeke

Never been on Movies.SE, and as I do not watch movies, not going to either.

DavidPostill

12:22

@Mithrandir If you were to provide a link ...

Willeke

And Literature is not my corner of the world either.

Mithrandir

@Mithrandir here, @DavidPostill

Willeke

I got my Q answered on a new site, with just one upvote, I got my self answered Q, just one upvote on the Q, (3 on the A) and so I have a few more.

DavidPostill

2 votes to go

Mithrandir

@Willeke it's easy enough to create an account ;). And we accept pretty much every good SE question about books, plus questions about poetry, plays, song lyrics...

DavidPostill

12:24

@Mithrandir Ah. I can't vote on that one :/

Mithrandir

@DavidPostill I'm curious, why?

Willeke

Might try a Q that is easy enough to find the answers.

one more on the win 10 Q

And that answered a question I have had for a long time. (no longer, win 10 on computer now.)

And as I started making accounts, I might as well continue.

Mithrandir

I've got an account on every single SE site :D

Willeke

A vote for me here will help: travel.stackexchange.com/a/107275/27650

and two more on the Q here: travel.stackexchange.com/q/107102/27650

And @DavidPostill, do you have a link to that movies Q or A?

Mithrandir

Which? Mine?

Possible spoilers for the ending of the first Harry Potter book/movie movies.stackexchange.com/questions/84378/…

Willeke

12:40

If you have a Q or A that needs votes (next to that nearly at 100) you are welcome to post @Mithrandir

I could even have known the answer to that, I read the first 4 potters.

Mithrandir

Well... there's that Movies.SE one I linked, and I suppose if meta.stackexchange.com/questions/305244/… gets another 11 votes I'll get a gold badge...

Hi there @the

thesecretmaster

o/

Mithrandir

How goes the educating?

Willeke

I did not even have to join for that last one.

Mithrandir

And muchas gracias for the votes.

thesecretmaster

12:44

@Mithrandir It's good. The site is slow, because it's a new site, but I like it.

Mithrandir

@thesecretmaster I still find it amusing that I have user ID #5 :D

DavidPostill

@Mithrandir I already voted :)

Mithrandir

Ah. Heh.

thesecretmaster

@Mithrandir Oh wow, you do! I'm 58, how'd you get in so early?

Willeke

Thanks, I got two hats :D

Mithrandir

12:47

@thesecretmaster Funny... that's my user ID on Literature.SE. Where I'm a mod. Coincidence?

thesecretmaster

My user ID on lit is.... not 5 :)

Mithrandir

Also, I happened to be online when it launched and created an account I think 37 seconds after A51 notified me that that it was going live (as I had followed but not committed).

thesecretmaster

Oh. Yeah, I was kinda not active on SE at the time it launched. That was about a year after I started asking on SO.

DavidPostill

Got Silencium :)

Mithrandir

@DavidPostill Congrats!

DavidPostill

12:51

Thanks

Mithrandir

@thesecretmaster It could be 2832 ;)

DavidPostill

25 hats on Super User, leading by 9 hats :)

thesecretmaster

@Mithrandir I'd join if I had any knowledge to share

Mithrandir

@thesecretmaster of course you do. Do you read any books?

Also, you should join because you're sometimes with Charcoal and so should have an account on every site ;P

thesecretmaster

@Mithrandir Not as much as I'd like to. Last book I read was an english translation of Les Miserables.

Mithrandir

12:55

Nice. We've got Les Mis questions. :)

...I wonder who user #24601 will be.

Willeke

Congrats on Silencium, I think it is the best looking hat of this year.

thesecretmaster

Les Mis was ... a lot of words.

Mithrandir

Soo close... two more votes to go in both places... movies.stackexchange.com/questions/84378/… literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1641/…

@thesecretmaster Heh. Isn't every book?

Also, if you didn't understand it, all the more reason to ask questions about it :P

DavidPostill

@Willeke And not so easy. When a question and answer goes HNQ comments are expected. I was lucky :)

Willeke

Lunch has been called, I will be back after I have stuffed myself.

Mithrandir

12:58

Heh. Bon appetit

Eran

I checked all the answers I posted during Winter Bash having at least 3 votes, and all have comments in the question or answer. No Silencium for me.

DavidPostill

@Willeke 'There's no logic in wasting meat': The 22-year-old taxidermist who receives abuse online because she EATS her subjects before stuffing them :)

thesecretmaster

@Mithrandir Yes, but not usually > 1000 pages of words (at least in my copy)

Mithrandir

@thesecretmaster Those are the best. I love long books.

DavidPostill

@Mithrandir I prefer thick books, not long ones :)

thesecretmaster

13:02

Yeah, but they're not great when you don't have very much free time.

Mithrandir

Just read in the wee hours then ;)

thesecretmaster

But sleeping!

Mithrandir

Eh, who needs to sleep

Hats are naturally more important

David

just 2 to go! meta.stackexchange.com/a/304341/278094

thesecretmaster

@Mithrandir Meeee! I already only get ~5 hours a night and I need more!

Glorfindel

13:18

I expected this would get me a Galaxy Brain, but it's behind schedule. I don't understand why that (non-CW) question has a higher score than the CW answer ...

David

@Glorfindel and to stump you even further I had already UVed the answer, but not the question.

Mithrandir

13:38

New secret hat!

"Glasses With a Number On Top"

David

@Mithrandir new years

just got the great answer badge!!!

Mithrandir

Nice! Still two short here :(

David

@Mithrandir did all you do was vote?

Eran

@David Congrats

David

thanks.

Mithrandir

13:41

@David not sure. I don't even know if I voted.

Pretty sure I got voted on...

David

I really have to thanks all of you who voted on that answer. Without all of you I sure would not of gotten it.

@Mithrandir interesting.

because I was expecting this hat, so I have been voting.

@Mithrandir you done anything on movies in the last hour and 40 minutes? Did you get UVed?

Mithrandir

Yes, I did.

David

hmm it might be your post. but then again it might be the UV

Mithrandir

I haven't voted since Dec 27th there.

David

@Mithrandir yah, casting votes does not seam to have anything to do with this one.

Mithrandir

13:46

Ha!

David

you want to UV anything of mine, see if the getting a UV in the new year thing works?

Mithrandir

@David can you star this message? chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/41965983#41965983

David

@Mithrandir the think one?

Mithrandir

Yeah.

David

@Mithrandir (you do know you could...)

Mithrandir

13:48

Oh that's right

David

lol who stared the star request? that is so meta.

Mithrandir

rubs hands let's see if this theory works

Willeke

Me, as a test

Last year we had to star posts in the chat, if I remember right

Mithrandir

This room is de-parented.

Willeke

Ah, bad luck.

David

13:50

@Mithrandir exactly. this room wont work for the staring.

not sure the starred message is it. Just went to BSE's room, and a message I posted recently was starred.

Mithrandir

I did that.

:D

David

:)

the regulars will "love" that :)

I post so many of those review sweeps

Eran

@David It worked. You got a 2018 hat

David

no kidding.

(I haven't seen it yet)

caching

Eran

Saw it in the leaderboard

David

13:53

but I have not gotten any UVs yet this year, so that is not it.

another trigger ripped from past WBs

Eran

Maybe it was the starred chat post

David

probably

try it post something here

I can clear up after you get the hat

Eran

I just did

David

@Mithrandir did you get any other hats this year?

I'm wondering if it is "get a hat in 2018"

Willeke

I did post in the 'You Are Here' travel chat.

Mithrandir

13:56

Uhhh

Don't think so

Willeke

I did get several hats today, but not the new years one.

David

its probably the starred message

so I finally get the universe hat, but the 2018 hat moves it off the list.

@Eran its been 5 mins. did you get the hat?

Eran

@David nope

David

hmm

A J

I got a starred message but not a hat

Mithrandir

14:03

Hrm.

Mr. Xcoder

Maybe it's not for that (?)

Mithrandir

blames caching

Mr. Xcoder

shouldiblamecaching.com

Eran

I tried voting now. Perhaps it's a voting trigger after all.

David

yah we haven't figured this one out (yet)

did that go through?

Mr. Xcoder

14:04

@Eran Huh I don't think so. I don't think I have voted during this period

I have it but no clue what it's for if it's not because of chat

Eran

I got it now, on Blender, so it was definitely the chat.

David

could still be caching

Mithrandir

@Eran nope

David

bingo!

alright.

Mr. Xcoder

Ah cool

David

14:06

@Mithrandir good guess! nice work everyone.

@Eran you have it too.

Willeke

That is the starred chat post?

David

@Willeke yep.

post a message in chat within +- 12 hours of the new year that gets starred.

there is your trigger.

Willeke

If anyone wants a hat in travel, chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/591/you-are-here

David

at least balpha remembered to use the correct year this time. :)

Willeke

I have accepted a self answer with no votes on it, makes me wonder if that will work for the accept without votes.

David

14:19

@Willeke dont think so (there is a post on the meta about self answers not working for that hat)

TTFN all

Willeke

Thanks

Glorfindel

15:09

And the tradition(?) of descriptive secret hat titles continues with Glasses With A Number On Top.

Li357

15:32

Is there a new hat?

LarsTech

Yes, we need to star each other's messages.

Li357

:P

Yay

Glorfindel

Stars in this room don't count. No really, they don't, because the room has no parent site.

LarsTech

Dang

Li357

@Glorfindel Yeah. I'm begging on SO

And it worked

Willeke

15:37

I think in other hats it read 'where it is X (date) anywhere in the world.

Li357

@David did you get universe brain yet?

I got an answer at 24

Sébastien

16:17

@Li357 I'm not quite begging but... chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/17/javascript

alecxe

Happy New Year!

Willeke

Happy new year to you.

Li357

@alecxe \0/

@Sébastien :)

@Sébastien Also since you're a JavaScript person, I've got an answer at 24 (need that galaxy brain) :P

Sébastien

@alecxe What are you doing at #4 ?

Li357

^^

Sébastien

16:30

@Li357 Grear answer ;)

Mithrandir

@Li357 I didn't - need two more votes :/

Li357

@Mithrandir There's a literature SE?!

Mithrandir

Yep. :D

literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1641/… is at 98...

Li357

Yeah

Never read 1984

There ya go Mith

Mithrandir

Thanks! :D

Sébastien

16:32

@Mithrandir I love Orwell. Just joined literature for some reason...

Mithrandir

While we're on the subject, movies.stackexchange.com/questions/84378/… needs two more votes as well for Silencium ;)

Li357

Darn it. My question lost its hot network questions place

Mithrandir

They drop off after a while; the entire algorithm is divided by age, IIRC.

Li357

Yeah

My top voted one I think lost HNQ then got back onto it

Mithrandir

I've done that too :)

Li357

16:35

"Why does this comma inside a ternary operator throw a syntax error in JavaScript?" is not as eye-catching as "Does Java have a “private protected” access modifier?"

I'm tied for first in hats on SO!

Mithrandir

Nice.

Ooh, shiny.

Just got Universe Brain. Thanks! ^.^

Now I'm tied for... 8th network wide.

If only I could get two more votes on Movies.SE, that'd get me Silencium, I think...

Li357

How did you guys get extra toppings? Is Meta.SE easier?

Mithrandir

Yes.

Except that Meta.SE will also eat you alive.

hint hint

Li357

:P

Mithrandir

I'm very subtle.

Li357

16:44

@Sébastien Do you mind if I add an answer to this for a chance at extra toppings?

Sébastien

@Li357 By all means, I might upvote if it's good ;)

alecxe

@Sébastien just have not yet got awarded the 2018 one, be right back at 1st with others :)

Sébastien

@alecxe I have no doubt!

alecxe

I wonder if there are any secret hats left..

@Mithrandir congrats on getting the Universe Brain!

Willeke

It would be great if there is a 'last minute' hat.

Last year there were 41/2, two hats where you would only get one (on each site) and 40 others.

How many are we now?

Mithrandir

16:49

@alecxe thanks!

alecxe

@Willeke 33 total as of now

Willeke

Mmm, quite a few less.

alecxe

it could be that some hats are gonna be assigned after the WB based on the actions during WB..

Willeke

If I got enough votes here, I would get mother of dragons: 3dprinting.stackexchange.com/questions/5176/…

alecxe

it's closer now

Willeke

16:58

Thanks

Mithrandir

squerp

Willeke

Thank you as well.

Mithrandir

hint hint again

Willeke

I can only do one vote there, sorry.

Willeke

17:32

To get the right time for the 'Hero of Time', I would like to check my computer with the time of the site.

Looks like it is within a minute with here.

Li357

17:47

@Sébastien I added another answer :P

Mithrandir

@Willeke click on the achievements dropdown

Willeke

Thanks, that would work as well.

Li357

@Mithrandir hint hint

Mithrandir

squonk

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