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1:01 PM
@Ste can't remember, I'll search chat...
yesterday, by Hugo
OK, confirmed: Necromancer badge --> host of Winter Bash Past hat
 
@Reg Rory has a Eureka and the headphones too.
 
any theories on the Eureka?
 
He's been in the review queue a bunch, but he's probably working on the Robocop.
 
some more secrets for the network leader: meta.stackoverflow.com/users/178438/…
Before It Was Cool
this is a secret hat

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish earned this hat on:
Information Security
 
Gah. I really can't hang in chat right now though.
 
1:04 PM
I'm Not Listening
this is a secret hat

Mr. Peanut Monopoly McManish earned this hat on:
Physics
 
I tried ignoring a chat user for a bit. That didn't seem to work.
OK. Leaving bye.
 
"I'm not listening" will be rejecting a suggested edit on your own post
 
Ste
@Hugo - cheers. I'll do that now/
 
@MattЭллен Surely it's possible to game that.
 
@KitFox My apologies, you won't have to ignore me anymore.
 
1:09 PM
@AndrewLeach it's possible to game them all, just look at this chat
 
Yes, but it's not generally possible to do it all on your own: it needs help.
 
headphones-hatted network-leader recently rejected a suggested edit: physics.stackexchange.com/users/7433/manishearth?tab=activity
has someone tested it yet?
 
I'm testing it now
he also rolled back an edit, which could trigger it
@Hugo yup, just got head phones
 
@MattЭллен hooray! rollback or rejected edit?
 
1:14 PM
reject
 
hooray, me too!
 
Do me! Do me!
I mean! I'm not looking!
 
enjoy!
 
hee hee hee
See you in a few hours!
 
1:19 PM
CU
 
anything here security.stackexchange.com/users/7497/manishearth?tab=activity to suggest a reason for getting the Before It Was Cool hat?
 
new tags
used in at least x questions? three of the quesstion have
maybe by a few people
or possibly getting the announcer badge
 
I rejected edits yesterday, and didn’t get it.
And today, same.
Must be a particular kind of rejection.
 
an edit on your own post
 
Ah.
 
1:28 PM
@MattЭллен yes
 
Ste
Thanks for the "I'm not listening" hat.
Can I get two upvotes on this please for "Ghost of Winterbash"
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A: What is the word for someone who initiates group social interaction?

SteThese people are generally employed as "Holiday Representatives", more commonly shortened to "Holiday Reps". The ubiquitous "Club 18-30" travel company has a page detailing their recruiting requirements for such as position. Being one of our Club 18-30 holiday reps is a job like no other! It...

 
@Ste done
testing tags
 
So I saw a strange edit on my post, but none of the people involved have the headphones.
I suspect @Matt and would like to ask him to give it another try, so I can be the one to reject it.
 
@RegDwigнt someone suggests an edit on your post. you reject. you win headphones!
 
@RegDwigнt aight
@tchrist there might be an edit on your post
 
1:31 PM
@Hugo right. I'm seeing that now. Only just catching up.
 
Fixed.
What’s rude about snowstorms? :)
 
@RegDwigнt so, there might be a rejectable edit on your post
I'm slightly worried all this rejecteable editing might get picked up and it will be stopped, but we'll see!
 
@MattЭллен thanks.
We'll see how it works out.
 
Did we figure out why DamkergnT has IG-88?
 
@tchrist Depends if it concerns a certain British Chancellor's daughter.
 
1:34 PM
You weren't around?
 
@tchrist no. theory is answering a question that has a bounty, but then not winning it.
I can award a bounty in about half an hour to test
 
Ste
Should be confirmed when I award my bounty shortly
@MattЭллен can award his now?
 
get in on the rave-up for a go
 
Got the headphones.
 
yeah, I'll give it a go. I was meant to avoid you, right @ste?
 
1:35 PM
@tchrist: I am seeing some headphones on your weasel.
 
Ste
@MattЭллен - Yeah don't give it to me! Give it to someone who needs a bounty hat
 
done. now we wait
 
Ste
Someone who hasn't got "Bounty Hunter"
This is exciting!
 
33
Q: What animal is a “weefil”?

user25049What animal is depicted in this image labelled “weefil”?

 
Helloes! Don't push your luck. Reject it already.
 
1:38 PM
Misunderstood.
 
Tis okay.
 
Wie viel
 
Ste
One more vote on this please: english.stackexchange.com/a/142564/20739
 
@tchrist Sieben. Nein, warte: acht!
 
Ste
I got IG88!
 
1:39 PM
woo!
 
@Ste Well done!! How?!
 
Ste
It will have been not winning @MattЭллен 's bounty
 
We’ve closed the gap with Unix&Linux to just 71 hats.
This may required concerted action.
 
yay! I've got make it rain.
 
We'll get some hats at midnight. Just for upvoting people.
Make sure to find people without the UpDo hat.
 
1:42 PM
ok. here's two bounties that can be awarded within 30 mins: english.stackexchange.com/questions/78366/… english.stackexchange.com/questions/45883/… you might not qin the bounty, but can't harm to answer anyway...
 
@Hugo why are you in a hurry to award them? Wait out the full six days.
 
@RegDwigнt any suggestions?
 
Unless you're going on a vacation from the site.
 
@RegDwigнt to get a pair of hats. but I suppose it can wait.
 
@Hugo I dunno, I just go through the top questions, or the top answers, or the top users, and see who could use some upvotes and doesn't have the UpDo hat yet.
 
1:43 PM
If you have any votes left, I have two comments at +1. Do you see my point?
goes to make coffee
 
@Hugo yeah the point being, the longer it's up the more people get hats, no? Or is the IG88 awarded only once per question?
 
@RegDwigнt don't know, but I see your point
I'd expect more than once per question
otherwise, how'd you pick a winner?
 
Something something votes. Or whatevah.
But yeah, seeing how the hat is rare already, they'd be well advised to just send one everybody involved's way.
 
Mari-Lou got it too, as well as ste, so I'm guessing they give it to all
 
Ste
Oh - I need 5 upvotes for Necromancer. Can I get three more please? english.stackexchange.com/a/142564/20739
 
1:51 PM
I want that warm hat!
2
Especially since everyone's wearing it one day ahead of time!
 
I agree, very confusing
 
Awww thank you stranger.
I am thinking about putting up a site message. "Visit chat now for a free hat very important announcement about the future of the site".
 
"What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts, boggles, Bloody Bones, spirits, demons, ignis fatui, brownies, bugbears, black dogs, spectres, shellycoats, scarecrows, witches, wizards, barguests, Robin-Goodfellows, hags, night-bats, scrags, breaknecks, fantasms, hobgoblins, hobhoulards, boggy-boes, dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fau
 
I wonder if TPTB care that this whole hat thing subverts the entire purpose of their ostensible business model. SE has just become Farmville.
8
 
We're playing the gamified game
 
1:53 PM
@Robusto Rob. There's headphones coming your way. Check the main site. Just a friendly advice.
 
@Robusto I was wondering what the site stats looked like during these days of our Saturnalia.
 
Oh, what is IG88 for?
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 not winning a bounty.
So get cracking on answering all those bountied questions.
 
The above citation is from the Denham tracts. There are lots of words there missing from the OED.
The Denham Tracts constitute a publication of a series of pamphlets and jottings on folklore, fifty-four in all, collected between 1846 and 1859 by Michael Aislabie Denham, a Yorkshire tradesman. Most of the original tracts were published with fifty copies (although some of them with twenty-five or even thirteen copies). The tracts were later re-edited by James Hardy for the Folklore Society and imprinted in two volumes in 1892 and 1895. It is possible that J.R.R. Tolkien took the word hobbit from the list of fairies in the Denham Tracts. List of the original tracts I. * «A collection ...
 
1:55 PM
I see your point. Mine should be visible soon.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 You listening? Ready for headphones?
 
@RegDwigнt I don't know what to do for that one
 
This hat makes me a cornicorn.
 
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 check out the main site and reject that awful edit to your answer.
 
1:57 PM
I must shower!
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Sounds like a comedy duo.
 
¡Bienvenidos a los Corn y Corn!
 
Top hats and cornbread are antithetical to each other.
 
They're no Morecambe and Wise.
furiously refreshes chat
 
1:58 PM
Or Little and Large
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 it's not appeared yet.
 
Blarg. Shower time.
YESS
I am Cornicorn!
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Must have been a good shower.
 
@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 you look even more menacing!
 
Palomitas de Maíz
 
2:00 PM
menaces
Ok, BBL.
 
How does one capture the unicorn?
 
it's the meta's version of peanut gallery. comment on meta.elu 5 times
then people need to up vote your comments twice each
 
--> meta.english.stackexchange.com/questions/4338/has-anyone-on-elu-been-awarded-the‌​-i-see-your-point-hat-yet
 
What? @Rob still has no unicorn? Get cracking. Here.
Gah, no need to quote them all.
We're up to full speed.
You'll have the upvotes before you're finished copypasting.
 
The problem is, people won't take "I don't know" for an answer. — Robusto 8 secs ago
Apples are not always green. Some are red. Same with tomatoes. — Robusto 8 secs ago
 
2:05 PM
Well okay. Talk about doing things The Hard Way.
 
Just make sure you use the blood of a rabbit, not a rabbi. It's an easy mistake. Wouldn't want a typo to cause a tragedy. — Robusto 31 secs ago
 
I think that's five
 
The Hard Way is a 1991 action-comedy film directed by John Badham, and starring Michael J. Fox and James Woods. Stephen Lang, Annabella Sciorra, Luis Guzmán, LL Cool J, Delroy Lindo, Christina Ricci, Mos Def, Kathy Najimy, Michael Badalucco, and Lewis Black appear in supporting roles. Plot A serial killer/vigilante known as the "Party Crasher" (Stephen Lang) telephones the police, notifying them that he is about to murder another individual at a night club, daring them to stop him. Police converge on the night club, but the officers, including NYPD cop John Moss (James Woods), are unabl...
Nice James Woods vehicle.
 
so is it time to start starring chat even though it's not Dec 20 yet?
 
I think everyone in here has got their hats already.
Don't pollute the wall.
 
2:08 PM
not I
2
I must say winterbash2013.stackexchange.com is a rubbish advent calendar as it has the same picture on the flap as is revealed underneath
 
It's a Hanukkah calendar.
 
@Hugo Nor me.
2
 
Ste
@Hugo - Can you please give me an upvote and shift the check to me on this: english.stackexchange.com/a/142570/20739
 
@Robusto Wait..is that what Farmville is about?
 
Ste
Then I can delete it when I get my pirate hat!
 
2:10 PM
goes to play Farmville then
 
@Mitch Yes.
 
@Ste done
 
I see @Oliver is wearing a warm hat, but he is wearing the wrong warm hat! That is scandalous! I urge him to say something to his defense!
!!wiki something
 
}} "Something" is a song by the Beatles, featured on their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was released that same year as a double A-sided single with another track from the album, "Come Together". "Something" was the first Beatles song written by lead guitarist George Harrison to appear as an A-side, and the only song written by him to top the US charts while he was in the band. The single was also one of the first Beatles singles to contain tracks already available on an LP album. John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the band's principal songwriters, both praised "Something" as one of the best...
 
!!wiki let it be
 
2:13 PM
, |}} | Genre = Rock, rhythm and blues | Length = 35:16 | Label = Apple | Producer = George Martin, Phil Spector | Last album = Abbey Road(1969) | This album = Let It Be(1970) | Next album = The Beatles' Christmas Album(1970) | Misc = }} Let It Be is the 12th and final studio album released by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 8 May 1970 by the band's Apple Records label shortly after the group announced their break-up. Most of Let It Be was recorded in January 1969, before the recording and release of the album Abbey Road. For this reason, some critics and fans, su...
 
!!wiki be it let
 
@RegDwigнt The Gods of Wikipedia did not bless us
 
Stupid gods.
Speaking of which, where's @Cerberus?
 
@KitSox I thought there was only one God.
 
!! stupid gods
 
2:14 PM
@Hugo I didn't understand that. Use the help command to learn more.
 
Imagine my surprise.
 
!!wiki stupid gods
 
@Hugo No result found
 
God anagrams to dog.
 
!!tell Robusto wiki American gods
 
Ste
@Hugo - Thanks - I now have the hat. You can replace the check in the correct location!
 
@Ste done
 
@Cerberus Ugh...which probably means that it happens quite a bit more often (she probably wasn't singled out out of everybody that's arrested like that)
 
Ste
Cool.
 
Thanks to someone I now have 200 rep on ELU. I think it must have been @mitch
 
2:17 PM
!!tell Matt wiki American Splendor
 
@JasperLoy That would be a reasonable inference, but no, I haven't noticed any of your answers in order to upvote.
 
@Mitch Hmm, then I know not who it is.
 
I've put up a community bulletin.
If new people show up, tell them about hats and their immense coolness.
 
While you boys were sleeping, @KitFox just moved into sole possession of first place.
 
2:19 PM
I got a suggested edit to my post in my inbox, but no edit. Does it mean the edit has been rejected?
 
@Robusto tis but for the bounties.
I am watching her.
 
You got beat by a girl.
 
@Robusto sounds cool. I'll see if I can get hold of the collected editions
 
No. I got beat by the Kit.
Much different.
 
Some places you have to pay for that. Here it's free.
 
2:20 PM
Is it beat or beaten? Hmm.
 
Eggs are beaten. @Reg is just beat.
 
Coming from a beatnik that means a lot.
 
Participles are always confusing, sometimes more than one form is allowed.
 
The Beat Generation was before my time.
 
@Robusto sole joint first, along with with me, @ste and @RegDwigнt
 
2:22 PM
@Robusto you and I are joint 12th network wide
 
Hmm. Perhaps it's only December 20 outside the UK...
 
She got there first.
 
And I got there last.
So we're quits.
 
@MattЭллен I don't know quite how to take that.
 
Anyone can be too early to a party.
@Robusto thankfully you still know how to n-sync.
 
2:23 PM
and @kit, @ste and me are joint-2nd network wide, along with another. winterbash2013.stackexchange.com/leaderboard/…
 
@Hugo Wow, that's very good.
 
we have some 8 on the first page
 
@RegDwigнt That's "n-seq" to you.
 
Just cut to the chase and say it. "We're the best".
 
@RegDwigнt I wear multiple hats actually
 
2:25 PM
just 58 behind U&L
 
@MattЭллен And yet I have a life. How is that possible?
 
@Robusto I wish I knew
 
@JasperLoy just went from 3 to 6.
Watch out, Kit!
 
@RegDwigнt What? I have 6 hats? No way.
 
Way.
 
2:26 PM
Let me check...
 
Hats are serious business, and we are the most serious site. Hence, you get hats. QED.
 
Unix & Lunix are pulling away. We were 63 behind, now it's 66.
They found another gear.
 
Indeed, I have 6 hats. Miracle.
 
With Great Power is a mod hat, ne?
 
Des ka.
 
2:29 PM
A great way to get more for the site, we can award up to 40 hats each (theoretical maximum):
48 mins ago, by RegDwigнt
We'll get some hats at midnight. Just for upvoting people.
48 mins ago, by RegDwigнt
Make sure to find people without the UpDo hat.
 
@Hugo I am not sure if just one upvote is enough. I've seen enough people that didn't get it for just one.
I suppose you need like 20 reps min or what have you.
 
4
A: Which hats are awarded at the end of the UTC day?

Travis JFrom what I can tell (aside from sekrit hats) there are only two UpDo - received only upvotes on a day, from at least five different users Frosty the Snowman - cast only upvotes on a day, to at least five different users

"UpDo - received only upvotes on a day, from at least five different users"
(I only just realised the UpDo hat is an upvoted up arrow, as we have a different style here)
any UpDo candidates then?
 
@JasperLoy reject that edit on your answer, for another hat!
 
@MattЭллен No, I think it has been rejected already, I could not find it anywhere...
 
@JasperLoy I only just made it!
(another one, that is)
damnit I wasn't anonymous
 
2:36 PM
A rejected edit hat?
 
ok, I'll try again
@tylerharms for edits on your own post
 
@MattЭллен Are you going to edit it again?
 
sadly it looks like I can't
too many rejected edits
 
Ah, never mind, let's leave things as they are now.
 
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU
Will this never end...
@LarsH I am not assuming intentional discrimination. There's nothing wrong with being rooted in a particular culture, and there's nothing wrong with letting it shine through involuntarily. But there's nothing wrong with calling attention to it, either. This is a network of international sites. Yet I am not seeing Sarkozy hats and Tolstoy quotes for hints on how to get them. — ЯegDwight 17 secs ago
Some people just can't take a joke and prefer to have a useless discussion.
Never get involved in a land discussion on MSO.
Speaking of international, there's Martha.
 
2:42 PM
What? Where?
 
wth is this about?
 
what the hat? It's December 20th already?!
 
The starring is for the hat?
 
yes
I already have it
 
Ah, and I thought they liked what I said.
 
2:43 PM
It may take some time to appear.
 
@JSBձոգչ I took offense at hints being too American for my commie tastes. Now Americans are taking offense at my being a commie. Business as usual. Nothing to see.
 
@RegDwigнt i see. where do i go if i'm against americans and against commies?
not to chuck yeager, i suppose
 
@JSBձոգչ to heaven.
 
@RegDwigнt woooooo
 
Nice idea for the event on the community bulletin on the front page
 
2:44 PM
Why is there a chat event today, when the super-warm hat is scheduled for chatting tomorrow?
 
it's tomorrow already!
 
@Marthaª because we are cool like that.
Except for @Cerberus. He's too hot to be cool.
 
@tylerharms Is not! Is not is not is not! I've got too much to do for it to be tomorrow already!
 
Speaking of which! I must work.
Thank you, @Marthaª.
Lators.
Oh but to answer your question: I suppose just like last year, they add 12 (or even 24?) hours to either end to make sure that absolutely nobody can legally claim they missed something unfairly.
 
@RegDwigнt ditto.
@RegDwigнt 'cause of timezones and such?
Anyway, I really have to run. Ta-ta!
 
2:48 PM
Oh, hats
 
@Marthaª Yes. Timezone "Pacific/Wake" is GMT+14, I think.
 
Huh-huh, Wake. No pun intended.
 
@RegDwigнt I think they have to use the earliest possible time because otherwise people in chat will be getting the hats at different times, which will be confusing. I suppose they could use the latest possible time, too. But they didn't
 
Does Santa have to go down the Wake Island chimneys on the night before the night before Christmas then? Do they even have chimneys on Wake Island?
 
or any time really, but kept it the same for everyone. so midnight GMT would have been best, of course
 
2:53 PM
the site does run on UTC though for all other time limits
 
UTC is a source of energy now? Who knew?
 
maybe it will be a 48 hour day
 
@Robusto That's something LinkedIn haven't got to yet.
 
starting at the earliest possible moment and finishing at the latest
 
2:55 PM
slow jinx!
 
Ste
3:08 PM
I still need 2 upvotes on this for 2 more hats. Help please!
3
A: What is the word for someone who initiates group social interaction?

SteThese people are generally employed as "Holiday Representatives", more commonly shortened to "Holiday Reps". The ubiquitous "Club 18-30" travel company has a page detailing their recruiting requirements for such as position. Being one of our Club 18-30 holiday reps is a job like no other! It...

 
3:24 PM
love, peace, and chicken grease!
 
Ste
@tylerharms Hi - can I get an upvote on my answer above please?
 
@Ste Hmm... upvoted.
 
Ste
@MrHen - Why thank you! One more for two more hats!
 
3:51 PM
Howdy folks
 
How many votes does it take to get hats, and how many hats can we get from chat?
 
depnds on the hat
there are two chat hats that I can think of
that's one hat for you
the cat chat hat is something slightly different
 
Niccce
have you got them?
 
yes
> Chatty Chatty: post 10 messages in chat with at least two of them starred
All the hats got in this room go towards the grand total for EL&U, as well as your own total
but since there are only two, it's not many :D they all add up
 
3:57 PM
Is there a tally at the end between all SE sites?
 
yes!
select "The Stack Exchange Network" to see your network wide standing
 
I am back to steelblue.
 
@JasperLoy settling in to your new accounts then :)
 
@Matt your hat goes exquisitely well with your avatar
 
@MattЭллен I have also changed my profile to my favourite line. =)
 
3:59 PM
why thank you very much :D
 

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