Winter Bash! 2018 edition

David

00:14

@Mithrandir probably right about the share link, I just got it on meta and did not do anything. Got to be the link Get X number of views, through the link on a post posted in the bash.

David

00:24

@eLRuLL ping me when you are on.

eLRuLL

00:43

Sup @David ?

WELZ

01:03

> we can test it

David

01:18

@eLRuLL was wondering if you'd be kind enough to "accept" my knitting answer temporally so I can get the Scarf Ace hat.

Panda

01:37

@David wow I got it in the middle of the night

@David I cast a downvote & an upvote, was the 5th to vote to close a question and answered one question yesterday

Didn’t comment on anything at all

And I’m quite sure I did not share any link for that site

Eran

07:00

Good morning

CinCout

hola

Nog Shine

07:56

Hellos!

What's the trigger for Clean Up duty?

Eran

08:16

@NogShine I'd like to know the answer to that question too. I deleted many comments, reviewed a lot of suggested edits and edited a lot of old posts. No luck yet

Nog Shine

@Eran I guess it has something to do with editing old posts.

jknappen

10:17

Early Gonna Find Out hats

I see that there are already users wearing the Gonna Find Out hat, despite the vote limit. How do they bypass this? Accepts votes? Vote on Meta, too (gives you another 40 votes to cast)?

Tinkeringbell

10:42

@jknappen Perhaps even close/delete votes?

If I look at the 'votes' section on my profile, it counts up, down, delete, undelete, close and reopen.

Feeds

0

Q: Why are Gonna Find Out hats already being awarded?

The description for the Gonna Find Out hat is: cast 150 votes on questions or answers I've come across a few users with Gonna Find Out hats. Since Winter Bash has only been on for 3 days and is a limit of 40 Q & A votes per day, how is this possible?

Tinkeringbell

^ I'll guess we'll find out officially some day :)

Panda

hello

I just came across someone with this hat too

and the criteria states "questions or answers"

Tinkeringbell

@Panda close votes are cast on questions to ;)

balpha

no, this is only up and down votes

Panda

10:47

@Tinkeringbell oh yea technically

Tinkeringbell

@Panda Apparently not though :P

Panda

:D

balpha

I know why it happens (it's legit, not abusive at all). I've pinged the community team to decide if we should make a change there.

It's a good question though, I had to dig a bit to figure it out

Panda

@balpha ahh how is it possible?

balpha

I'll defer answering that until we have a decision about it :)

Panda

10:50

@balpha sure :)

balpha

well, @Glorfindel has already figured it out :)

Panda

I see, deleted posts

b_jonas

11:06

Horned helmet!

Yeah, I know, it's a very easy hat, everyone has it already

Jenayah

11:27

Did we guess what triggers Porper Thyself yet? FWIW I've been doing tag wiki edits like crazy since this morning and I got it

I also have shared some links in dupe-closing context but not to posts of my own

All these actions on SFF

CinCout

@Jenayah someone has been doing the same on SO. The Suggested Edits queue was filled with a lot of tag wiki edits

Jenayah

We might be on to something then :)

I've edited ~30 of them today

And I must have edited ~15 others since Winter Bash beginning (on other days I mean)

More data: I've earned 56 rep today and it's all from those edits

Mithrandir

11:46

@Jenayah do what I did once - repcap from edits

Jenayah

@Mithrandir that will be entirely dependent on the boringness of this afternoon's class

I also gained two hats today, Identification division and Rubber Ducky. Don't know if it could be related

Panda

12:25

Red Baron is seriously difficult

sigh

Questions keeps on getting downvoted continuously

jknappen

13:14

@panda It is indeed difficult. In essence, your answer must make a formerly bad looking question look good.

Panda

@jknappen Indeed!

Nicola Sap

@Jenayah I've got the propeller hat but I've never ever touched a tag wiki

Jenayah

@NicolaSap hmmm... Rep coming from different sources then?

hat

13:48

I hit the rep cap from upvotes alone, and earned Propel Thyself (I went +15 over from an accept). It has nothing to do with edits, I have not done any today. I can't think of anything else which could have triggered it.

ArtOfCode

well I'm 15 rep away from capping today, so we'll see if that has anything to do with it

Panda

I got propel thyself without earning any rep on that day tho

David

from all the very different conditions people have gotten the propeller hat, something like 5 view through a share link would do it. Could it be the same trigger as Amped Up from 2016?

ArtOfCode

maybe... test it: can 5 people click the knitting show-off link in the description?

hat

That's possible, I shared a link to FAQ here: meta.stackexchange.com/a/320130/366373

David

14:02

@balpha and @Panda I could of saved you guys the time of looking, same thing happened with the "Vote Early, Vote Often" hat back in 2015. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/26242153#26242153

@ArtOfCode already have.

if it is the share link thing, I know it is less then 25 (I got the hat long before the badge)

Jenayah

@hat ah, I repcapped yestarday, and got a +15 accept

Caleb Kleveter

I just received Propel Thyself on SO. No rep increase. I did got my 7th hat for SO just before.

hat

The share link lead looks promising, though. Look out for announcer badges...

@David I also haven't got the announcer badge yet.

Dylan

gmorning folks.

jknappen

@CalebKleveter This can't be the trigger, on the leaderboard for meta there are hat bearers with only six hats (including the propeller). There is also no gap in the hat number (yet)

Tab Alleman

14:15

We STILL haven't figured out waffles?

gbianchi

@TabAlleman nop

David

that is an interesting one.

anyone compile a list of users who have it?

gbianchi

@David I have it

@David on SO esp a few people has it.. but we couldn't understand why.. there is no luck trying to figure out how we get it...

David

maybe maybe not.

I have not compared users with it.

Dylan

Itd be nice to have access to hat info with queries. That way we could find a user with the minimal actions taken to get hat. But thatd make it too easy.

David

14:23

much too easy

Dylan

Here is a user with only two hats, one is waffles: math.stackexchange.com/users/44121/jack-daurizio?tab=activity

I just got timed out for paging too quickly through the leaderboard. haha

jknappen

Get upvotes on comments? (probably 1 upvote, but how many times?)

gbianchi

@jknappen just one?

in that case, half the site would have it...

Tab Alleman

I have it, and my best theory is that I got it for commenting on a question after I had already voted to close it. Can anybody support/refute that?

Waffles, that is.

David

14:39

@Dylan happens every year :)

Panda

@David ah, looks like it happened before, thanks

Any ideas for the clean-up hat

Dylan

I can refute it I believe. There are users who do not have enough rep to vote to close, with waffles.

Let me see if I can find an example.

Here is one: math.stackexchange.com/users/592402/joseph?tab=activity He does not have enough rep to cast a close vote. Yet he has waffles.

David

@Panda my guess is delete old comments, but seems users have tried that already.

Panda

yea I tried that, didn't seem to work

Tab Alleman

rats.

David

14:43

anyone tried editing your old posts?

Panda

But there could be an exact number of old comments to delete

David

@Panda most likely no more then 10

Panda

@David I doubt that though since it doesn't encourage positive behavior

Dylan

Here is your challenge, find a user with waffles who has not edited anything.

Ive yet to find one.

Panda

@David I think I deleted just 5, might be too less

David

14:45

yes an no. "cleaning up" your old posts is a good thing, but yeh can definitely be a negative.

jknappen

There's a user on linguist.se with that hat: He commented a lot, got (only 1) upvote on some comments, probably voted up some comments of other users, moved a comment discussion to chat, not much more. The posts and comments weren't particularly old, and the user is still "new" according to SE standards.

Tab Alleman

I'm wearing waffles until somebody figures it out.

jknappen

Ah, and the user just earned the commentator badge

Panda

@Dylan This user has Waffles without editing anything - math.stackexchange.com/users/626177/someone?tab=profile

WELZ

@Panda he got the commentator badge

gbianchi

14:50

commenting.. a lot?

WELZ

And a bunch of single upvotes on the comments

Dylan

@Panda I knew someone had to have it.......

Panda

@WELZ This user got their Commentator badge in 2012 - stackoverflow.com/users/1725647/…

gbianchi

@WELZ yep

Panda

@Dylan Yep, unless the questions they edited got deleted

Dylan

14:52

crap

rest in peace

gbianchi

@WELZ and probably some clean up on comments?

Dylan

they only have 26 rep can they even edit?

Panda

suggested edits

For Waffles, most users have commented & edited (or suggested edits)

CinCout

hola guys

still no lockdown on the Propel Thyself hat?

Panda

hello

gbianchi

14:55

@Panda look like the way is that... edit and comment...

Panda

@CinCout That's a weird one; I got it when I least expected it

Jenayah

@CalebKleveter Now that you mention it Propel Thyself was my 8th badge as well

Adrian Larson

I don't follow how you are supposed to get Rubber Ducky. None of the Ask Question pages I view have a Discard button. I seem to remember one being there in the past, but not any more.

Panda

@gbianchi I think there ought to be some trigger

CinCout

any running theories?
Did @Mithrandir get it with the link he shared? (5 unique clicks)

Dylan

14:56

I think waffles is this: Comment more than X times on a post that has been edited at least 2 times.

CinCout

@AdrianLarson you need to wait for the Discard button to appear

Panda

@AdrianLarson I think you have to wait till the discard button's out, sometimes it takes 1 min

gbianchi

@Dylan uhhh.. I like that theory...

Panda

@CinCout I may be wrong but I don't remember sharing any link and it's not my habit to use the unique user link when sharing

@Dylan seems plausible

hat

@Jenayah It was my sixth, so that does not hold..

Jenayah

14:58

@hat I saw chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/48060315#48060315 right after I posted that so aye nevermind

Adrian Larson

@Panda Ah. Yep it just takes forever to show up.

CinCout

@Panda then the trigger is completely differnet

Adrian Larson

Two people who have Waffles on my site commented on a post which was then closed, then deleted their comments.

Panda

@AdrianLarson it actually takes forever, like up to 2 hours

@CinCout I guess so

jknappen

Waffles maybe it is a sequence like: comment on an answer to your own question –user revises their answer–accept answer?

Adrian Larson

15:03

I don't think it has anything to do with answers, someone else posted and deleted a comment on a post with no answers at all. I think it has to do with deleting a comment within a certain time frame of posting it.

Panda

@AdrianLarson ahh, let me try that, there's a post closed after I commented

done deleting, let's see if that worked

btw anyone here who got Waffles without deleting any comments?

Adrian Larson

Everyone on my site who has it deleted comments, not all of them on a post which got closed. They've also all edited comments...hmmm

But I have both deleted and edited comments, on both questions and answers. So that's probably not it.

Tab Alleman

Hmm, I can't remember if I deleted any comments shortly before getting waffles.

JackNavaRow

@TabAlleman I did that , Edit POST, add a comment, and then I deleted it

Panda

15:23

Hmm, I deleted 3 comments under a question after it was marked as duplicate and looks like there's no hat

Dylan

I just went on a commenting and editing spree, no hat. damn

David

@RitaGeraghty I noticed you asked about the hats. Well its all part of the winter bash. The winter bash is an event the SE runs where we collect hats for doing normal actions across the sites. You can find the answer to the Retro Fan hat here

David

15:52

for it's-a-me do the comments have to be from within the bash?

nope old comments work.

Dylan

Do they all have to be on the same post?

Snow

if only there was a SEDE query that identified these comments...

Dylan

Honestly, just go throw useful comments on brand new posts. Statistically speaking, they will get edited right afterwards.

Jesse Busman

Does it take a while to get Rubber Ducky? I've discarded questions & answers on two sites an hour ago, but haven't gotten it yet.

David

@Dylan no

Dylan

15:59

@JesseBusman It takes about 1-3 hours on each site.

David

@JesseBusman YES! and different amounts of time on different sites!

Jesse Busman

@Dylan Ah, thanks. I wonder, do they do that on purpose to make it more difficult to find the trigger? :P

David

@Snow there is/are cough just make sure the Post was really edited by the OP after your comment.

Dylan

Not sure, but WEZL and I found that one. It was one of the easier ones.

Snow

@David No worries. I've gone through a load of my old comments and removed a bunch of comments where the OP has acted after I left comments.

But thanks.

CalvT

16:07

@AdrianLarson Writing a nonsensical question - title, body, tags, makes it show up straight away

Snow

@JesseBusman Me also. Must be something else to the duck hat.

Unless it's on Meta.

CalvT

Takes 1-3 hours to show up based on other users experiences

Personally took 1 hour on meta.se

Snow

Mmm-kay.

CalvT

I've just done it on SO and SR, at 16:14 GMT. Will report back when I get each one

David

:48062102 on the bottom right next to the ask button. It is not there from the start has to be a question to discard first.

NH.

16:16

@David but I wrote a nonsense question like @AdrianLarson said, but I still don't see a discard button.

David

are three fields filled in?

CalvT

@NH. It might take a few seconds to show up

NH.

yes

David

well you still have to wait for the auto save to save it, then you can discard it.

NH.

ok, so I take it @AdrianLarson's bit about "straight away" is falsehood?

CalvT

16:20

@NH. Stop pinging AdrianLarson, it was me that said it

NH.

oops

CalvT

And it does show up straight away for me

Don't know whether I put more effort into my fake question (so more time), or the auto-save is quicker on my laptop

Dylan

Just dump a load of random text in the box.

Itll show up instantly

NH.

no

I put Lorem ipsum there

(well, actually a large blurb from the lorem ipsum website) and still no discard button.

I'll wait an hour or so, though.

David

it will be there in under 5 mins

if not, refresh and try again

jknappen

16:23

Type in by hand ... wait a minute ... discard will come up, time depending on the server load.

Snow

don't forget a question title. and tags.

CalvT

Ok my Rubber Duck on SO took all of 12 minutes

Snow

Still nothing after about an hour for me on TWP.

Snow

16:38

And the duck just pinged up. A minute or so after I discarded an answer draft, not a question.

NH.

thanks Snow

Snow

I just tried a dummy answer on another site, just in case that's the actual trigger.

eLRuLL

@Snow I did both too, but I got the hat like half an hour later, so I am not sure if it is because I did it on the answer or on a question.

CalvT

@Snow All my three have been via "Ask a question" - although I don't have the SR one yet

Snow

Ok. I trust the accepted trigger, but you know how the old Gorbachev saying goes...

Dylan

16:44

"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today." ?

Snow

No. "Trust, but verify".

jknappen

@Snow Wasn't that Lenin? I rembemr it in German Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser

CalvT

Rubber Ducky on SR in 33 minutes

Maybe there's an hourly batch process that awards them

Snow

@jknappen Hah. Actually, I was thinking of Reagan, who was negotiating arms limitations with Gorbachev at the time.

David

@CalvT very likely something like that

QHarr

17:33

Hi, For rubber ducky the answer says use the discard button on any Ask A Question page - I don't see a button called discard. Is there actually one?

CalvT

@QHarr Fill out the title, question, and tags, then wait a minute and it will show up next to the post question button at the bottom

jknappen

wait for it to come ... it is not there at start, but it comes some time after you have typed in something

QHarr

thank you all

Am I right that I also need to somehow discard an answer afterwards?

Nog Shine

They should also award a hat who decodes all the secret hats next year. :/

jknappen

No this is definitely not necessary (tested!)

Nog Shine

17:39

@QHarr Not needed.

QHarr

thanks

eLRuLL

@AnkitSharma got the Clean-Up Duty hat on two sites: movies (where he is very active) and scifi, but it looks like he doesn't have an account in scifi: stackexchange.com/users/1344292/ankit-sharma?tab=accounts

Nog Shine

@eLRuLL He did edits of old posts for that hat.

Erik the Outgolfer

@eLRuLL are you sure his scifi account isn't hidden?

eLRuLL

I just isn't listed there, no idea how to hide an account that way

Erik the Outgolfer

17:50

hidden sites aren't listed there

Nog Shine

@eLRuLL He hid that account.

Erik the Outgolfer

admittedly, WB should care for hidden accounts too

like, maybe I don't even want to show I have a connection with a site outside of that site, for example

Nog Shine

post an FR?

Erik the Outgolfer

not so easy...

I'd better let somebody who is actually concerned with that post it

Nog Shine

You may get some downvotes and eventually a hat for posting a controversial question ;)

CalvT

17:55

@eLRuLL scifi.stackexchange.com/users/6006/…

They seem to have revised a bunch of old questions. I've also done that, but no joy

I didn't edit tags though, but they did. Wonder if that's it?

Dylan

@NogShine Historically they have awarded a secret hats to an individual who proves that he figured it out on his own.

CalvT

Or I have a new theory

Ask a question, and then edit one of the answers

Feeds

18:11

-1

Q: Why do you need to opt-in to Winterbash on every site

After I opted-in to Winterbash on one site (Ask Different) I was not automatically opted-in on Stackoverflow or Meta Stack Exchange. Are you supposed to be opted-in/out on all sites automatically and this is a bug or is this not a feature yet?

support winter-bash winter-bash-2018

Adrian Larson

Just got Propel Thyself and have no idea why. I did also finally get the rubber duck. Less than an hour but not by much.

Propel Thyself was my seventh hat on SFSE and eighth overall.

CalvT

@AdrianLarson Maybe because you had 7 hats?

Oh wait no - you only have 6 on one site

Propel would have been your 7th

Dylan

Have we seen anyone with a Prop hat who has less than 6 other hats?

Can someone refute that?

CalvT

I'm on 5, trying to get my 6th then will report

If anyone wants to upvote an answer of mine on SO so I can get Tophat feel free :P

Nog Shine

18:26

@Dylan It is my 8th hat on Hinduism.

jknappen

@Dylan Quick find apple.stackexchange.com/users/119271/allan total 6 hats, including propeller

CalvT

Hmm what if it's have 3 secret hats?

2

jadarnel27

I have 6 on dba.se including the Propel Thyself hat. dba.stackexchange.com/users/6141/jadarnel27#winter-bash

CalvT

3 secret hats again

Erik the Outgolfer

the secret of the secrets...

jknappen

18:39

Only 5 hats including the propeller: stackoverflow.com/users/295783/mplungjan but indeed, three other secret hats!

jadarnel27

I got Rubber Ducky and Propel Thyself at the same time I think, so that seems like a solid guess!

Can't immediately find any counter examples (someone with 3 secret hats and no propeller).

Erik the Outgolfer

(or someone with Propel Thyself and less than 3 secret hats...)

Adrian Larson

Yeah I got Propel Thyself after receiving my third secret hat.

Making it my fourth.

WELZ

hm, possible, I only have 2 secret hats

CinCout

we can test this theory, but I need 2 downvotes for that

Erik the Outgolfer

18:47

darn Sun Wukong!!! :P

CinCout

ikr. wonder why they want to encourage downvotes.

WELZ

Encourage controversy

@CinCout link?

Erik the Outgolfer

encourage the VLQ? :P

CinCout

thanks @CalvT

2

Q: Why was this "Very Low Quality" flag disputed?

I raised a VLQ flag on this question. It is marked disputed. How and why will that ever happen? Is that because the moderator(s) did not agree with it? If so, shouldn't it have been declined instead?

discussion flags low-quality-posts disputed-flags

4/5

@EriktheOutgolfer what a coincidence

Erik the Outgolfer

or...

CalvT

18:50

Ok, you've got it now @CinCout

CinCout

now we wait

Erik the Outgolfer

> hey, let's have something controversial so that people forget about recent drama stuff

CalvT

Btw no need for an edit, it was fast enough that the vote wasn't locked

CinCout

@CalvT not sure if that'll count as a dv

CalvT

@CinCout You already have the hat

But not Propel

CinCout

18:52

@CalvT just got notified

yay

@CalvT so the theory is proved wrong

CalvT

It could be a batch process that runs every now and then

But yeah is looking like it's wrong

Dylan

Propel thyself feels like it is speed dependent. Like, "get 4 hats in under an hour" or something.

CinCout

only 8 secret hats so far

in all I mean

CalvT

There was at least 3 time dependant ones last year

CinCout

yup

remember the controversial one, sun or moon

CalvT

18:56

@CinCout check your hat notifications :D

CinCout

got propel thyself

theory is proved guys

CalvT

I'll update the hat post

CinCout

do the honours

now on to the sneaky ones - waffles and clean up duty

Eran

@CalvT Good find about Propel Thyself! I wasn't even thinking near this direction.

CinCout

@Eran the name is misleading

Nog Shine

19:08

I think the edited posts need not to be old posts

It is about retagging

CinCout

@NogShine clean up?

Nog Shine

Yes.

Less than 15 including normal edits. I checked user's profiles who got that hat

CinCout

no wonder there were so many re tags in the suggested edits queue

Feeds

-2

Q: Hat: IDENTIFICATION DIVISION not resizeable?

When I earned my other hats (Team Player, Top(bar) Hat, and Peacekeeper), I had the option of adjusting the rotation angle and size before wearing them. When I just earned IDENTIFICATION DIVISION, it happened to be a good size and orientation, but I couldn't adjust it at all. Bug, or WAD?

bug winter-bash-2018

Eran

I'll retag some questions to test this theory. Hopefully I don't have to retag my own questions.

Nog Shine

19:14

I tried retagging a couple of questions and I still didn't get that hat.

CalvT

I'm going to retag 10 as I've found a load which could do with it

Nog Shine

6 normal edits along with 2 retag.

CinCout

@NogShine do at least 5 questions. A couple is never enough

CalvT

I'm currently on 6 retags

CinCout

@CalvT you actually went on a clean up duty :P

Noon

19:16

This user retagged a little less than 20 question but doesn't have the hat

(it was all on IPS meta)

CalvT

Meta doesn't usually count (unless it's meta.se)

CinCout

@Noon not sure if the hat is for meta

Nog Shine

Only meta which counts is Meta Stack Exchange

Noon

Good to know, thanks all!

Jenayah

Good find on Propel Thyself guys

CinCout

19:19

@Jenayah all credit to @CalvT

Jenayah

Clean up is probably about retagging indeed, I got it rather fast and I'm always retagging stuff :P

JackNavaRow

cleans I won when I was doing review

Eran

I re-tagged 10 just now. I think I have a few more re-tags since the start of WB

CinCout

@JackNavaRow which reviews?

JackNavaRow

low quality

Jenayah

19:22

When I get to a computer I'll check how many retags I did between WB start and hat notification. Given my usual rate I'd say ~10-20

JackNavaRow

I wrioe a message , Im not sure, I deleted some comments

CinCout

@JackNavaRow do you have a count?

JackNavaRow

@CinCout nop

CalvT

Don't think it's retag - just retagged 6 new posts and 5 old ones (like back from 09 etc) and nothing

CinCout

@JackNavaRow I am done with my quota of LQP for the day, no hat

JackNavaRow

19:24

the difference was that I deleted my comments in some answers

CalvT

I've done that - deleted 6 comments placed before an edit

CinCout

@CalvT yeah your avatar tells the story :D

JackNavaRow

@CalvT also I deleted some comments that had upvote

WELZ

I have two answers which (either one) needs 2 votes to earn the Enlightened badge→The Merlin hat→Propel Thyself hat

Erik the Outgolfer

shoots message for begging for votes :P

Nog Shine

19:33

I am stuck with same 007 hat since the first day. It only needs one vote

@EriktheOutgolfer hehehe

Sorry!

Perhaps we should do retag within specified time for getting cleanup duty hat?

CinCout

@NogShine that will be unfair for those who don't have the rep to auto approve edits

Eran

The re-tagging worked! I got Clean-up duty!

CinCout

whoa

how many did you re tag?

Eran

10 just now, a few more on Wednesday I think

Dylan

foo! I can't retag fast enough to beat people who have edit privilages.

Eran

19:43

I just found a +5 answer in a question with no comments. Maybe I still have a chance to get James Bond.

Nog Shine

@Eran Great. How many did you retag?

CinCout

@Eran old answer I assume. By old I mean posted before WB started

Dylan

I would upvote it, but I already did yesterday @Eran.

Lol

Eran

@CinCout no, I checked just the new answers

CinCout

@Eran cool

Eran

19:46

@NogShine 10 recent retags, a few more since WB started

I'll test the retags on MSE. I have edit privilege there too.

Nog Shine

10 retags is not easy on a beta site :|

Eran

Maybe the actual requirement is lower

Dylan

@NogShine rip.

By retagging, do you mean specifically changing a tag to a more specific one. Or just adding a tag in general?

Noon

@NogShine Also, bumping old question on the home page of a not so active site as other issues. I know, I have been asked to not edit more than 5 old question a day on IPS...

Eran

In some questions I added a tag, in some I removed a tag, and in some I replaced a tag.

Nog Shine

19:54

@Dylan I know :(

MSE has now got rid of [tag:delete]. No easy chances there too.

Eran

I just realized one of the questions I answered on MSE can get me Red Baron. It just lacks 10 question upvotes and 2 answer upvotes :) That would be a challenge

Nog Shine

@Noon Yes. Happened with me once in the past when I was trying for copy editor. Those were legitimate edits though. The reason generally said is it prevents users from reading new active posts.

Noon

@NogShine Same here. Now I try to edit new stuff after I'm done with my five older ones ^^

Eran

A challenge: If you guys answer this (currently -6) question - meta.stackexchange.com/questions/320012/… - and later it reaches +3 (not including your vote), and your answer gets +5, you'll get Red Baron hat.

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