#WB17

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DavidPostill

00:01

Happy new year from the UK :)

Willeke

Happy new year, (me in UK aswell)

Li357

Happy new year to you!

I've got 6 more hours

Willeke

Good NYE to you, @Li357 and a good New Year when the time comes.

(I call it a day. see you next time we are in.)

Li357

Rory Alsop

00:31

@Mithrandir I spread my efforts far and wide so it will take me far too long to do that on any one site. I think my top 3 sites get me over 100k though...

Jesse Busman

Happy new year everyone!

Li357

00:56

@JesseBusman You too!

Henry WH Hack v2.1

01:24

Hats off to the new years!

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David

03:08

@HenryWHHackv2.1 good to see you again. I remember that furry guy from last WB.

Henry WH Hack v2.1

David

you were around last year right?

Henry WH Hack v2.1

yes

Last year means 2017?

David

was just saying that it was nice to see you again.

Henry WH Hack v2.1

OK.

David

03:10

@HenryWHHackv2.1 no last WB (WB 2016)

Henry WH Hack v2.1

For so of use 2017 is last year. :)

Me a few more minutes and boom!

@David I was around.

I still enter the old winter bash room.

I am always in there.

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/50144

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David

05:01

in Sandbox on Stack Overflow Chat, 30 secs ago, by David

this sounds like a safe room to post a message that could get a hat.

Li357

done :)

David

thanks

I'm going around to all the chat rooms I have accounts on and posting (hopefully) funny messages

X-27

05:47

lol - for those people who want as many duplicate hats as possible XD

Li357

10 more minutes until 2018 for me!

Li357

06:01

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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DavidPostill

09:06

Yay. Got Brunhilde - I forgot about counting meta.se rep :)

TanMath

09:20

Happy new year!!

Eran

Happy new year

Mithrandir

hoppy new ribbit year

Laclip

are you new year?

I'm already new year
But everyone is not here

Give glass to me!

Mithrandir

09:37

If you get starred here, you won't get a hat.

This room has no parent site, so you can't get hats here.

Laclip

No parent? why.

Mithrandir

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/71021/star-spam-for-hats

Eran

09:55

What happens if you get starred in a chat of a site in which you don't have an account? Who gets the hat?

Another day. Another +7 answer with comments. No Silencium for me.

Mithrandir

...probably nobody.

Eran

10:28

My latest Silencium attempt - stackoverflow.com/questions/48048614/…

Well, one of the other answers got comments, so I guess that won't work

Eran

10:48

Well, I'm two votes short of 7. Based on the hat description - "answer a question that has never been commented on; your answer gets no comments and scores 7+" - I may still get it. The question and my answer never had comments.

And it's gone. Just got a comment on my answer :(

Eran

11:07

Now it got to 7...

Mr. Xcoder

That's why you shouldn't make yourself suffer such an excruciating pain of attempting Silencium on Stack Overflow. You'll just get more and more frustrated when, at +6, someone says "plz send teh codes, it not works for me" :P

Eran

I'll keep trying. Still have 1.5 days left :)

Willeke

11:29

I have decided to post bounties from the rep I got for signing up just to vote.

So if there is a hat for handing out bounties tomorrow I can get it.

Would be great to have a hat you can only get if you were generous before you knew you had to.

Eran

I have a bounty to award for the show off your hats question. I only posted that bounty to help that question get me my Waffles hat :)

Willeke

Good Q, I am not going to answer it but that is just because I am lazy.

Mithrandir

11:50

@Eran :|

There should have been a hat for getting +20/-20 votes on a post :p

Eran

@Mithrandir There was +5/-5 hat a few years ago. I got it (and many other hats) for posting the secret hats question of that year.

Willeke

Most sites never get as many as 20 votes on one Q, even less -20

Mithrandir

That was the monkey one, right?

Eran

yes

Mithrandir

Well, it's at +33/-25, so the net score is 8. Not terrible :P

Eran

12:05

@Mithrandir It was so easy to get Waffles via that question. Thanks for posting it! Last year it was very hard for me to get the Waffles equivalent hat, and I thought I wouldn't try to get it this time.

Mithrandir

Well. That certainly wasn't my intention when posting it, but... when life hands you lemons, make lemonade? :P

I myself didn't get Waffles though :(

Eran

@Mithrandir That's too bad. Did you answer it before it got down to -3? Or perhaps you can't get it if you post the answer yourself.

Glorfindel

Mith posted an immediate self-answer, so it was at 0 at that time.

Mithrandir

Yep, I posted them simultaneously.

Eran

Another Silencium attempt - stackoverflow.com/questions/48049567/… - no rep in it for me, since I'm past the rep cap.

already has a comment

Willeke

12:22

For the explorer hat, it is enough if the answer has been there for 12+ hours before the accept?

Ah, the accept came with an upvote and I am not sure which came first.

Eran

@Willeke At one point I considered down-voting a question whose OP had 13 rep, so that they won't be able to up-vote me after accepting my answer. I decided against it in the end. :)

Willeke

I will not down vote a good Q or A, hate to get downvotes but is happens too often on some sites.

In Bicycles I regularly get downvotes without explanations. And I also get them when I post an answer that differs from the main point of view at the site, (while I feel that opposing answers are much more valuable than those that go with the flow.)

It is the reason I stopped answering in Workspace.

Willeke

13:03

Someone closed the Q I had a bounty on, I did not know that is possible. But it did return the rep back to the account.

Mithrandir

Only a mod can do that.

First they have to refund the bounty, then the question is closable.

DavidPostill

@Willeke That was me. Bounties are refundable by a mod when it stops a question being closed as off-topic, unclear, etc or in this case as a duplicate.

Willeke

Ah, so my memory was right, you can not close a Q with a bounty.

DavidPostill

@Willeke Correct. Although I suspect a CM or Dev can work around that without refunding the bounty.

Willeke

So now I need to find an other A worthy of the bounty. I prefer relatively low level users who are active hunting hats.

Or at least show they have hats.

DavidPostill

13:10

@Willeke Yeah. Try to pick a question that isn't a dupe and wont be closed :)

Willeke

Hard to judge that on a site where you are not a regular.

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Li357

15:31

@Eran Do a self q&a. You'll get two hats in one because nobody really comments on those in my experience

Also please don't get Silencium on SO I want first

And I still haven't gotten my Extra Toppings hat and it's been 21 hours

David

@Eran pops talked about that years ago (2015 I think) You actually would get a hat, but it is tied to nothing, so you never see it. (Or something like that)

Mithrandir

@David Um. So... time for some science!

David

um no. what is the point of getting an invisible hat?

Mithrandir

Oh, wait. Can't anymore, the trigger has expired now, hasn't it?

David

@Mithrandir :) there in lays the key.

Mithrandir

15:43

@David for science. Aren't you filled with a burning desire to see if it counts towards that site's hat count or your hat count or the network hat count?

David

if you already posted a chat message in the time frame, but it has not bee nstarred you can still get the hat.

@Mithrandir no

Mithrandir

@David Welp. There goes my experiment.

David

but "for science" you can star one of these
https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42028342#42028342
https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42028355#42028355
https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42028401#42028401
https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42028521#42028521
https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42028544#42028544

I have not gotten the hat on any of thoes sites.

and the time for getting the hat is past, yet I will still get the hat :)

Mithrandir

I wanted a site where a.) nobody on that site has gotten the hat b.) the person posting the message has no hats c.) the person posting does not have an account on that site

David

@Mithrandir can't do C. if you do not have an account you do not get the hat.

Mithrandir

15:47

Well that's the experiment, isn't it.

Oh, and d.) I have access to the account :P

Unfortunately, my sock hasn't posted anything in the required time frame, so that's out.

David

did you anywhere?

Mithrandir

Did I what anywhere?

David

post a chat message, in the time frame, on a site that you have not gotten the 2018 hat yet?

Mithrandir

Yes. But that's not what I was curious about.

David

Li357

16:09

It's so disorienting to see posts that have timestamps "Dec 23 '17"

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Willeke

17:51

I did get my Red Hat with White Fur Trim a couple of days late, but I do not know if the Glasses with Numbers On will be given late.

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X-27

19:46

@David Starred all of those :)

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WELZ

20:59

So is this is, or will there likely be another hat or two before the end of WB?

Li357

21:28

Probably it

So apparently Extra Toppings may require the answer to be posted for 3+ days

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WELZ

23:04

I need 2/3 votes on this answer or that answer to get Taco Tuesday Any Day.

WELZ

23:22

^2/2*

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