Winter Bash! 2018 edition

Ankit Sharma

10:21 AM

@Mithrandir or another movies HNQ ;)

Mithrandir

Eh, that might take a bit until I come up with something...

Ankit Sharma

Where did I got 1200 by that login then O.o

Eran

@AnkitSharma looks like you got over 1200 in Movies

Ankit Sharma

wow didn't realaised

U9-Forward

I just created a Meta stack exchange account, giving an answer with +1 :-), now have 111 rep

109 i mean, :D

Ankit Sharma

10:28 AM

@U9-Forward yeah +1/-1

U9-Forward

@AnkitSharma Lol, good idea for that site :-)

Avnish Kabaj

104

A: A Moose, Some Silly Putty ... And A Desperate Plea For Help

Cleaning up the mess Constructed from toilet paper and ribbons. Earned by making 20 edits on one day.

Possible theory for cleanup duty

Has anyone checked or should I make them 20 edits?

CalvT

@AvnishKabaj Yes, I've done it and not got it

Avnish Kabaj

:(

CalvT

My theory is retag a question that then gets a positive scoring answer that's accepted

Ankit Sharma

10:39 AM

@AvnishKabaj I can't count 20 edits

But still got it

@CalvT too complicated

Avnish Kabaj

yesterday, by Avnish Kabaj

Never fear Detective Kabaj is on the case

CalvT

@AnkitSharma It matches all the cases though :)

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Guys, know about Eliza Doolots :-)

CalvT

Including mine on SO

b_jonas

Ok, so Doolots is not for getting a chat star, because you'd have figured that out.

Ankit Sharma

10:42 AM

@CalvT so throw lot of retag and wish for the best?

Avnish Kabaj

@CalvT just retagging wouldn't get that much votes to turn a negative into a positive score

Most likely related to editing

But what are the parameters

b_jonas

And if it's time-based, then we probably have about 36 more hours to figure it out and get it

Also, I should really figure out how to get a transparent avatar image working properly. People claim that there is a trick how SE can do it, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet.

Let me search

Mithrandir

You have to use Gravatar

b_jonas

@Mithrandir But should I upload PNG or GIF?

I hope it works with a PNG.

Mithrandir

*shrugs*

Ankit Sharma

10:44 AM

@CalvT retag old or new or any?

CalvT

@AnkitSharma Brand new

Ankit Sharma

I doubt now :D

CalvT

I monitored the new questions for a certain tag, and retagged any new questions

Ankit Sharma

@Mithrandir for what O.o

Mithrandir

Oh, I just got the hat for voting 150 times. Cool.

Ankit Sharma

10:46 AM

@CalvT remove tag also works?

CalvT

@AnkitSharma I removed and added

Eran

@b_jonas Doolots was already discussed here. You have to Do-lots of work on at least 3 sites in order to get it. The current theory is 1200 rep on your favorite site, and 200 each on 2 more sites

Ankit Sharma

@CalvT power missuse :D

b_jonas

@Eran Ah. So the editing or retagging is for the toilet paper one?

Eran

@b_jonas yes

Mithrandir

10:48 AM

Currently testing the Doolots one... need another 300 or so rep on MSE, I think. (Please don't serial vote.)

Ankit Sharma

@Eran I got in 4 sites

@Mithrandir what about serial downvote :p

Eran

@AnkitSharma 3 is the minimum. I guess You can get it on any additional site if you earn 200+ rep.

Mithrandir

Serial downvoting falls under serial voting

Ankit Sharma

@Mithrandir did you notice ":P" :P

Mithrandir

Of course...

Eran

10:51 AM

@Mithrandir if you answer this question - meta.stackexchange.com/questions/320012/… (not mine) - you might win a 100 rep bounty. And it (the question) definitely deserves more (positive) votes.

Panda

bounties may not count though, I’m not sure

Mithrandir

It seems to be sufficiently answered already...

Panda

because if bounties count, then Monica should get it a day earlier

Eran

@Mithrandir not sufficiently up-voted though :(. Or to be exact, too much down-voted.

Mithrandir

Mhm.

Ankit Sharma

10:53 AM

lol

Mithrandir

I already upvoted it, though ;)

Ankit Sharma

I was going to mention bricks.se but it's already there

Eran

@Mithrandir good for you

Panda

that knitting post could work

to get more rep

Mithrandir

Alright, @Ankit, I might have another M&TV question

Ankit Sharma

10:55 AM

Yahoooooooooooooooooooo

I am bored and can use some new post fro research

Eran

@AnkitSharma that's how I learned about the bricks.se competition. I probably have no chance of winning it (looks like you have good chances), but the 3 prizes randomly awarded give everyone a good chance, since there are currently so few participants

Ankit Sharma

@Eran but I am not getting missing hats. Only one more I will get rest are nearly impossible

Hi!

Hi, @Lloyd!

Hi!

10:58 AM

@AnkitSharma you don't have to get all hats for the Bricks prices.

Ankit Sharma

@CalvT Test case 1 now have to pray to god?

@Eran I am trying the no 1 not random 3

Eran

@AnkitSharma as I said, you have good chances for that #1. It will probably be either you or Alexander O'Mara

@AnkitSharma what test case were you referring to in that link?

Ankit Sharma

@Eran somebody claimed cleanup is for retag and post getting accepted answer later

23 mins ago, by CalvT

My theory is retag a question that then gets a positive scoring answer that's accepted

@Mithrandir ^^

Mithrandir

....well then.

CalvT

@AnkitSharma so are you going to retag that question?

Ankit Sharma

11:05 AM

@CalvT already did, suggested edit take time

CalvT

@AnkitSharma Ah fair enough sorry

Ankit Sharma

@Mithrandir I work in a data provider company so can't forget competitor's logo

Mithrandir

Heh. I didn't recognize it. The question remains, though, why did it suddenly switch?

Ankit Sharma

@Mithrandir My hands on it, give me some time

Mithrandir

(thumbs up)

Ankit Sharma

11:09 AM

Or wish someone make 600+ words answer before me :P

Eran

11:21 AM

@AnkitSharma I'm pretty sure the 600+ answer doesn't have to be posted prior to your shorter answer. It just has to be posted before your answer is accepted.

When I got this hat, I posted an answer at 13:49, the longer answer was posted at 13:53 and my answer was accepted at 14:03.

Noon

For the waffle hat and "15 comments theory", maybe some of the commet need to be upvoted?

Denis Bubnov

Hello! What I need to do that get Clean-Up Duty hat? I can't understand :( Can do you help me?

CalvT

@DenisBubnov We aren't actually sure yet what you have to do

Still trying to work it out

Denis Bubnov

11:37 AM

@CalvT Ok :) I'll wait solution

WELZ

@Noon nope, I got mine without any UV. But maybe an upvote can count as an extra comment (If you have 12 comments and 3 upvotes that may work)

Denis Bubnov

Mmm...

I found next answer: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/377912/5275890

But it doesn't help me

Re-tag around 30 questions - it doesn't work

Mithrandir

12:11 PM

I just earned Eliza Doolots.

On SFF, M&TV, and MSE.

Eran

@Mithrandir how much WB rep did you have on each of them?

@Mithrandir and congrats!

CalvT

@Eran meta 920, SFF 492, MTV 518

Avnish Kabaj

@Noon nope

Eran

@CalvT interesting.

Panda

12:31 PM

@Mithrandir Congrats!

That trigger's quite odd

WELZ

@CalvT so it probably is also a time thing (7 days)

Panda

So it might not have to do with rep(?)

WELZ

For Brunhilde, you need to have earned 150 rep total (rep losses do deduct).

I have over 150 on puzzling, but after downvotes it's 148

Panda

Yea, I know that hat

Noon

Maybe you have to visit your three favorite site each day for 7 days?

Panda

12:40 PM

@Noon yea probably in addition to the rep criteria

Feeds

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Q: Which Winter Bash hats were reused in past years?

A lot of the Winter Bash hats look really familiar to me! An example being "Glasses With A Number On Top": Are hats reused from previous Winter Bashes? If so, which hats and when were they reused?

Eran

@Noon that doesn't fit my case - I didn't visit ELL yesterday and still got the hat there. I still think it a rep thing.

CalvT

@Eran Your yesterday, or GMT yesterday?

Panda

@Eran did you visit for a total of 7 days?

CalvT

They may be similar but

Panda

12:45 PM

today's the 8th day so if you missed a day, it's still 7

Eran

@Panda I thought you meant it should be 7 consecutive days. If it doesn't have to be consecutive, it could fit.

Panda

@Eran Now I think there's some rep criteria (??? rep on 1st site and 200 on 2nd & 3rd sites) and visit all 3 sites for 7 days (need not be consecutive)

I could test it tomorrow, I'm short of 1 day on ELL

Eran

I have 2 more sites with 7 non-consecutive visits, but I don't have any rep gains in them, so no Doolots hat.

Panda

Yep, so I guess the rep criteria for 1st site's lower, probably at 800 or 900

Eran

@Panda unless it's 200 for all 3 sites + the 7 days criteria

Panda

12:56 PM

@Eran possibly, since 200 on 3 sites' considerably difficult

@AnkitSharma Could you check how many days did you visit on Travel since Dec 12, thanks!

omg

I just got Eliza Doolots on 3 sites

Eran

1:12 PM

@Panda congrats! what are your rep gains and daily visits on each of them?

Panda

@Eran Thanks, they're meta 932 (9 days), politics 584 (9 days) and 495 ell (6 days)

Eran

@Panda so 7 days criteria is out. Perhaps a total of 2000 from at least 3 sites (with a minimum of 200 per site)?

Panda

@Eran yep, but Mithrandir's add up to 1930 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/48138165#48138165

and alecxe got a total of 1849 earlier today

Eran

@Panda I saw that. So maybe the total should be lower than 2000. How much of this rep did you earn today?

Panda

@Eran 235 + 75 + 10 = 320

Eran

1:21 PM

@Panda so maybe you crossed the threshold at 1800

Panda

@Eran yep possibly

Mithrandir

So 1800 total rep across all sites that you've eared 200+ rep on during Winter Bash.

Panda

@Mithrandir that makes sense

Mithrandir

*goes to try to earn another 200 rep on another site to see if it works*

Panda

wait, Ankit got 1746 earlier today when he already got the hat @Eran

so threshold's not at 1800 either

Mithrandir

1:24 PM

huh

Well then the question is, why didn't I earn it earlier?

Panda

There's somehow some other trigger

it can't possible be so coincidental that the hat started to be awarded to 4 users only after 7 days

Ankit Sharma

1:56 PM

Got cleanup on bricks.se

And only did one retagging

Eran

@AnkitSharma congrats!

Ankit Sharma

But didn't got accepted answer on that edited question positive score answe

CalvT

2:14 PM

So maybe it's just positively scored answer @Ankit ?

gsamaras

I just got awarded Waffles hat after commenting in my answer (but like several times) stackoverflow.com/questions/53851445/…. Is the mystery solved about when you are awarded the waffles hat?

CalvT

@gsamaras We think it's 15 comments in the same tag within a time period

Something like 12 hours

Ankit Sharma

@CalvT somebody can verify

Mithrandir

3:41 PM

I just got Clean-Up Duty on MSE. I haven't really been editing lately.

I think it's for voting to close stuff.

CalvT

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Q: Site for Computing Forensics questions?

Could anyone please suggest a good site, like Stack Overflow, for people working with cyber crime and forensics? I have a few questions which probably don't belong here. I looked at Super User, but there are only two questions tagged forensics there, one of which is mine. The community there is ...

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You edited that, then Glorfindel answered and got a positive score

And I haven't done any voting to close so it's not that

Also fits with what Ankit got

Mithrandir

3:57 PM

huh, i guess

Nog Shine

4:46 PM

@CalvT That didn't work out for other users I know

CalvT

@NogShine Links?

Nog Shine

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Q: Why did Clark dream of the department store lady?

Why did Clark dream of the department store lady in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? No reason is given in the movie as to why he dreams of her in the pool. It seems unrelated to the overall plot of the movie.

plot-explanation christmas-vacation

CalvT

@NogShine Both Ankit and TheLethalCarrot have it

Nog Shine

Should it be an old question?

CalvT

No - I got it off a new one

Nog Shine

4:51 PM

@CalvT In this question, Mithrandir didn't add anything.

CalvT

@NogShine Check the edit history

All three editors on your link have Clean Up

So that link is not proof my theory is incorrect

Would be glad of any other links you can find @NogShine (or anyone)

Nog Shine

@CalvT I checked for tag edits by a user. Unfortunately, those answers are not yet answered. Will have to wait.

Nog Shine

5:09 PM

@CalvT Does this only work only for a retag or an edit as a whole?

CalvT

@NogShine All the edits that seem to have worked are related to tags

If it was edit as a whole, I think at lot more people would have it

Michael Dodd

5:28 PM

Hi all, not sure if this has been the running theory but I'm fairly certain of the requirements for clean-up duty now

Make an edit to someone else's Q/A that subsequently gets upvoted by another user

Just had an upvote soon after I made an edit, and sure enough just got the hat

Nog Shine

Hi! The theory is getting an upvoted answer after you have retagged that question.

Michael Dodd

@NogShine I did not amend the tags on that question.I had only edited the body of the question

Later the title too but that was after the upvote

CalvT

@MichaelDodd when did you get the hat?

Michael Dodd

About 15 minutes ago

Nog Shine

No retags recently?

Michael Dodd

5:38 PM

No, more like about 8-10

It was not long after I edited this question for the first time which subsequently got an upvote within 2 minutes of the edit

None of my other recent edits (i.e. today) have received upvotes from other users, or have involved tags either

In fact, I've made 0 tag edits today

CalvT

You should have got it for this question then stackoverflow.com/questions/53831649/…

Nog Shine

Your recent tag edit was about a day ago. That didn't get upvoted answer cc @CalvT

@CalvT that's not really a tag edit

CalvT

@NogShine No, but based on @MichaelDodd's theory

Michael Dodd

@CalvT That's a title edit, not a tag edit

CalvT

@MichaelDodd Yes I know - I'm just pointing out that based on your theory, that post also applies

Michael Dodd

5:45 PM

@CalvT True, though I wasn't the most recent editor at the time the vote was cast

CalvT

Have we proved the answer does not need to be accepted?

Michael Dodd

@CalvT That was also a title-only edit, not a body edit

CalvT

Otherwise this could fit stackoverflow.com/posts/53823852/timeline

No, Mith doesn't fit then

Michael Dodd

@CalvT Maybe, but I can't remember the score prior to the edit

Plus over 30 hours would be a long time to wait for the hat

CalvT

@MichaelDodd My initial theory was a retag that then gets a positive accepted answer - which that post fits with

I then dropped the accepted bit

Michael Dodd

5:48 PM

Would that take self-interest into account though? I am both the editor and answerer

That said, the answer was only accepted within the past hour, so that's also a possibility

17:25 UTC

right, driving home, will be back in about an hour

CalvT

Problem is that doesn't fit with Mith's activity on MSE

(That fact it needs accepting)

So back to the drawing board

WELZ

6:05 PM

@CalvT is there a way to easily get the timeline of any post?

Maybe a userscript that places another button - near the Edit, flag buttons etc. called [Timeline] and it opens the timeline of said post...

CalvT

@WELZ Yep - click edited, then change revision to timeline

There is also a userscript, don't have a link rn

WELZ

@CalvT that's not easy for my lazy self...

@CalvT this?

CalvT

@WELZ No - one that did exactly what you suggested

Extra button down by edit flag etc

WELZ

@CalvT somebody posted an answer which does it, I just installed.

It works great

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A: View Post Timeline

Good idea. There's a few minor niggles, though: Don't use unsafeWindow, this will break in Chrome and will not even work in Firefox+Greasemonkey if the effective @grant changes. Avoid leading * wildcards in @includes, if you can help it. This is a big performance hit. @match limits the wildc...

Mithrandir

8:16 PM

@WELZ Art has this old script that always adds timeline and revision links github.com/ArtOfCode-/Userscripts/raw/master/stackexchange/mod/…

WELZ

The one I added works, I also just removed revisions part.

I got Brunhilde!

Mithrandir

Congrats!

Alexander O'Mara

8:57 PM

Any updates on Eliza Doolots?

Samuel Liew

9:47 PM

@WELZ I have a similar script here that does more than that, Sticky Post Headers & Question Table of Contents. It works great on questions with lots of answers, especially those with pagination involved, like the knitting Q&A meta.stackexchange.com/questions/319846/…

U9-Forward

10:58 PM

Chee...... i am going lower and lower rank on Winter Bash :-)

Ethan K

Be happy that you have a rank...

U9-Forward

@EthanK Oh yeah, some point i was 4th rank :D

Ethan K

I probably was 5000 if I was lucky.

I just enjoy getting (and finding!) the secret hats

Speaking of which, any update on <s>that</s> hat?

U9-Forward

Currently 7th, note that that's competition for SO: winterbash2018.stackexchange.com/leaderboard/…

Ethan K

I have 7...

U9-Forward

11:04 PM

@EthanK I have your number *2 +2

:D, lol, :-)

Ethan K

Wait... That makes me 123rd place!

How???

I wasn't even trying!

I could get top 100!

U9-Forward

@EthanK So you're not bad, well in 1M, lol

@EthanK Last year i had zero hats :-)

Ethan K

I didn't know I was that good...

Next year I think I will try.

Good job on 7th, BTW.

U9-Forward

@EthanK Some point i was 4th...

Ethan K

Wow!

U9-Forward

11:08 PM

@EthanK Lol, i didn't know i was that good in the million of the users... :-)

Ethan K

I didn't mean to type that.

Do you want to try to find secret hats?

I am interested in Waffles.

U9-Forward

@EthanK Am... urrently sound like to get waffles: >Post a total of 15 comments on a question and/or its answers

Ethan K

We know that "Post a total of 15 comments on a question and/or its answers" is incorrect, but works.

A SO employee said so.

We need to get broader.

WELZ

Did anybody try 15 comments on the same tag (within 12/24hr)?

U9-Forward

@EthanK Okay, how?

Ethan K

11:15 PM

@WELZ I am out of accounts to try it on (unless Meta SO is different than SO)

But no one did.

I will try if they are different.

Are they?

Catija

@EthanK It's not.

WELZ

Another idea: "15" comments (on same post-s / tag) comments=1 and upvote on comment=1 so it could be 10 comments, but 5 have 1 upvote.

Ethan K

Mine had no upvotes

WELZ

How many comments?

U9-Forward

@WELZ If that's the case, i was a lucky-boy that day

WELZ

11:16 PM

Or even 1 comment with 15 upvotes

But I'm leaning more towards 15 comments on same tag within X time period.

Ethan K

15 comments, no upvotes on any.

@WELZ I agree.

Hard to test a time.

But first let's prove that it is the same tag thing.

Can anybody test that on any site?

WELZ

@EthanK exactly

What if you need 15 "points" and;

Comment = 1 point
Upvote = 1 point

And they all need to be on the same tag/posts(s) within X time.

Ethan K

@WELZ, Oh wait. I get it. That would be very specific. We could test that with two people.

Before we test that, let's just try 15 comments on multiple posts.

Then test that theory and time.

Can anyone test multiple posts here?

(I can't)

WELZ

nish nish

Ethan K

11:35 PM

Oh well.

Waits until someone comes along

David

11:56 PM

sounds like it has been an interesting day

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