Winter Bash! 2018 edition

Aaron.Toth

12:27 AM

hats?

What was this for?

I'm just reading on it now and at least saw to come here first

U9-Forward

12:42 AM

@EriktheOutgolfer you got the rubber ducky, now you've got seven hats.

Still any clues about Clean-up Duty hat?

I am gonna ask later a question, gonna try to get Sun wukong hat.

Maybe ya can help :-)

Panda

3:17 AM

good morning

I’ve gotten clean-up on both SO, Meta.SE a few hours ago and I’ve edited often these 2 days

@MatthieuBrucher I think editing tags’ for clean-up duty, we still have no idea what’s the trigger for Waffles

Riker

4:00 AM

@Panda any clue how many tag edits may be required?

Panda

4:18 AM

@Riker apparently 3 tags; another theory could be "Edit at least 3 times for 2 days"

It's possible that the script that awards the hat only runs 2-3 times per day, so there's a huge delay (I got the hat on both Meta.SE & SO seemingly together)

Eran

5:15 AM

@Panda congrats for the cleanup. Perhaps my suggestion did work after all. It's hard to know for sure with these large delays

Panda

@Eran Thanks for the suggestions! But the funny thing is that I also got it on SO where I didn't edit any questions with my answer

@Eran So my current guess is still "Edit at least 3 times for 2 days" since it fits my actions on both SO and Meta.SE

Feeds

5:30 AM

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Q: Are hats different every Winter Bash?

Looking through a site with all competitions ever held, I noticed that every year, hats are different. Is there any basic hats that don't change? I just wanted to write how to earn every hat, but now I hesitate.

Feeds

5:45 AM

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Q: How do I return to the original image?

Before clicking button "Done", I had this image before starting to knit. Now I can't, because I have an old image placed. Can I return to this original image? Image used from here.

discussion winter-bash

U9-Forward

7:14 AM

Hello guys, i ask this question on MSO meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/377905/…

Catija

@U9-Forward The people in this room are the ones creating the content on the MSE post you link to in your question on MSO... if the MSE question doesn't say how to get it, the people in here don't know.

... excluding me... but that's because I work here and I know all.

U9-Forward

@Catija Okay, let me do that then, sorry :-)

Catija

I don't think you have anything to apologize for. :D Part of the fun of Winter Bash is figuring out how to get the secret hats. :)

U9-Forward

@Catija Amm... where can i post this other than here?

Catija

@U9-Forward Wait... are you asking people to vote for you so that you can get a hat? Please don't do that.

Panda

7:28 AM

@U9-Forward One of the theories now is to "Edit at least 3 times for 2 days"

but it's not proven yet

you can try it if you want

U9-Forward

@Panda Let me try...

@Panda Just note that i should get that hat already then, because look at this: stackoverflow.com/users/8708364/…

Feeds

0

Q: Is there any way to see total hat count?

I've earned the same hat on multiple SE sited but I am unable to find any way to see total count of hats I've gotten ? Is there any way to see total count of hats I have got ?

support winter-bash

Panda

@U9-Forward Ah, then you can try "edit tags at least 3 times for 2 days"

it's not proven either

You can also try Eran's theory: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/48076686#48076686

> edit 5 questions in which you have an upvoted answer. There are badges with similar criteria. Not sure if the answers must be posted during WB or not.

U9-Forward

@Panda Okay, then i'll try your theory, i tried Eran's which had failed.

Panda

@U9-Forward Sure, update this chat when you get it :)

U9-Forward

7:34 AM

@Panda Okay.

QHarr

8:06 AM

@Panda Can you explain what you mean by edit? I edit questions every day (pretty much) and certainly at least 3 times over last 3 days. No badge.

Noon

@QHarr Do you also edit tag? And old questions? You should try that

QHarr

Yeah I did. I do have a habit of adding useful tags rathering than removing tags though.

Noon

I'm not sure I remove tag either so that probably isn't what's important

Maybe vote on the questions you edit?

QHarr

Ah........

Is that what you did?

Noon

For some of them, I had upvote the question, for others I had upvote an answer and for other, I did nothing more than editing

QHarr

8:12 AM

thanks

Panda

@QHarr ah then I’ve no idea, I’ve gotten clean-up on 2 sites that I added tags for 2 consecutive days

QHarr

8:42 AM

@Panda thanks

Glorfindel

Panda

9:02 AM

@Glorfindel WOW congrats on the rubber duckies! ;-)

jknappen

9:50 AM

Another hypothesis on waffles: Can it be something on a certain time (like 8 o'clock somewhere on earth)? Such triggers were here before, and they are hard to guess.

Mithrandir

I've tried asking on the hour, no hat... unless it took a really long time

Panda

10:12 AM

I almost got James Bond until the OP thanked me for my answer 🤦‍♂️

Eran

@Panda I hate it when that happens. Last year I couldn't get that hat (even though I was sure it was easier than some other hats I managed to get).

Panda

@Eran Yea, it’s even more frustrating when the comments were really unnecessary :(

Eran

@Panda do you have any other answers close to +7 without comments?

Panda

@Eran They have to be answered during WB right?

I don’t think I have any at the moment that’s answered during WB :(

Mithrandir

My only candidate is at 2... :(

Panda

10:21 AM

My new one is at 0 ...

Mithrandir

heh

Panda

I remember seeing someone adding "Please try not to comment on this question or answer." a few years ago

It's actual rather difficult to get

Mithrandir

Yep.

Eran

@Panda yes, they should be answered during WB

Panda

@Eran ah sadly nope; they all have comments

Eran

10:25 AM

My strategy was to answer as many questions as possible (was also a useful strategy for the 5 accepted answers hat)

And I got some help with the 7th vote :)

Panda

@Eran I'm planning to try it out on Monday, weekends seem to be rather quiet

Panda

10:42 AM

Anyone knows if Necromancer works with self-answer to an old question?

Eran

@Panda it works - I have at least one Necromancer for a self answer on SO.

Zoe

Could the waffles hat be related to flag retraction?

Panda

@Eran great, thanks!

@Zoe I've retracted close votes recently and didn't get it

Zoe

I mean specifically flags though

Not close or delete votes

Panda

@Zoe Let me try that

Eran

10:57 AM

I suggest trying old hat triggers for waffles and cleanup. Some that might work: 1. "6 posts are edited by the owner after you commented on them" 2. "Edit or suggest an edit to 5 posts in a single UTC day, without commenting on the post". Of course, the triggers might be slightly different this time.

Panda

I think 2. "Edit or suggest an edit to 5 posts in a single UTC day, without commenting on the post" is ruled out

I've edited tons of posts without commenting these few days

Eran

11:10 AM

Since this question - meta.stackexchange.com/questions/320012/… - is down to -4 again, everyone who hasn't tried already is welcome to post an answer, and we might get Red Baron from it eventually.

Zoe

owo

Panda

@Eran eventually; it's a fair question honestly but it just keeps on getting downvoted

Eran

@Panda last year there was a similar situation with the "show off your hats" question, which initially got negative score, but eventually turned positive. There's plenty of time

Zoe

11:26 AM

yeah

Panda

I see

mickmackusa

I earned a gold badge for Reopen review queue and a gold [php] badge but didn't get any hats as a result. Does that seem crazy to anyone else?

Eran

@mickmackusa there used to be a gold badge hat every Winterbash, but they canceled it this year.

mickmackusa

But there is a silver one?

Eran

yes

coder-croc

11:42 AM

I'm one vote short for Freehand Circle! Can I ask for help!?

Erik the Outgolfer

ask for help, no, state the fact, yes... ;-)

coder-croc

Okay.. cool! :D BTW Someone already helped, Thanks to that Unsung Hero!

Erik the Outgolfer

uh... how are you sure the voter is an unsung hero? .oO( coder-croc is big-time stalker )

coder-croc

Haha!

Avnish Kabaj

12:47 PM

Does anyone have winter duty?

Eran

What do you mean by "winter duty"?

Zoe

Random guess: secret hat?

Panda

2:39 PM

Yay, I finally succeeded in getting James Bond

b_jonas

There seem to be much fewer hats this year that are easy to get. The Top(bar) hat still is easy, but still.

We used to have a lot of hats for just logging in or voting on a particular day.

I guess those could still exist as secret hats... is there any secret hat that nobody's got yet?

Panda

@b_jonas I think we've already found most (if not all) of the secret hats, the remaining ones are probably the easy ones like "vote/post on someday"

I am quite sure that Clean-up Duty is to do with editing

There's got to be some criteria while editing

b_jonas

2:54 PM

@Panda Yeah. The one for getting starred in chat on New Year's Day is not secret.

Panda

@b_jonas Yep, I meant there's probably more secret hats for actions such as "vote/post on someday"

b_jonas

@Panda Yes, there might be.

Noon

Any theory for the waffles, yet?

Panda

3:15 PM

Waffles is probably "for 6 separate questions or answers, post gets edited by owner after you comment on it"

Antti Haapala

got this nice roll of toilet paper.

alas I didn't quite see when it appeared...

Panda

@AnttiHaapala Congrats!

Antti Haapala

is it possible to see the timestamp somehow somewhere?

Panda

@AnttiHaapala Unfortunately, nope

David-27

@Glorfindel LOL, that is awesome. And since you have an account on all the sites, and with there being so many free hats.... You're going to have a lot. :)

Noon

3:21 PM

@Panda I will have it soon then, I tend to ask for improvement a lot (but we don't have this much activity on IPS anymore, unfortunately)

Panda

@Noon Yep :)

I actually think Waffles is "for 6 separate questions or answers, post gets edited by owner after you comment on it"

This user has around 4 posts edited after he commented, excluding deleted ones

Antti Haapala

cleanup duty could have something to do with retagging. But my last retagging was 9 hours ago and I noticed the new hat only now..

Panda

@AnttiHaapala Yep, the hat script takes quite long to run for this hat; it's could be retag 2 days in a row

Antti Haapala

I've also done lots of cvs, hammers and delvs, so...

jknappen

7:24 PM

Got cleanup duty today and today I haven't yet done much. Most remarkable is that I improved an answer twice due to comments by another user.

jknappen

7:39 PM

Ah, and one answer (that I edited) got really many votes and a nice answer badge on the way

Still no waffles ...

Feeds

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Q: Is there a query that returns answers one vote away from the Pizza hat

I want to identify answers that are just one vote away from the Pizza Hat (was Extra Toppings last year). Searching for "pizza" or "toppings" on SEDE did not reveal a suitable query. How to query for that trigger?