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12:00 AM
0!
only 28 regular
hats
We're live!!!
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ
ping everyone.
> I hate hats.
party time folks
I don't want to get distracted.
Have fun without the competition.
12:03 AM
WHAT!?!?
really???
Nobody has a hat yet? Really?
Go vote on a meta post...
clicks for the Amped Up hat: blender.stackexchange.com/q/13828/2217
I should already have 2
just click on the link
Time for the system to crash while awarding hats.
:)
@Hosch250 ohhh yah!
12:12 AM
HUH?
I have it too!
how?
Wearing it!
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Q: Winter Bash 2016 All Hats

DavidI decided to start the traditional secret hats post, but instead of just another "here is how you get the secret hats" post, to also add in all the hats. There are two answers, one for the secret hats, and one for the regular hats. Note: Only edit the list of secret hats with definitive answer...

12:19 AM
nice @X-27
although, I skipped about the first min of the vid
It's almost like I was there!
Wait, what?
> post a message in chat within ±12 hours of the UTC New Year’s begin that gets starred
How can I have already earned this?
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Q: First Responder hat of the 2016 winter bash

DavidThe "First Responder" hat seams to be broken. The description of the hat: post a message in chat within ±12 hours of the UTC New Year’s begin that gets starred However I and many other already have the hat.

Also, the Philanthropist hat name is misspelled :-(
[tag:bug]
@ArtOfCode done.
12:28 AM
ta
also, if we're documenting regular hats, you can just copy off the winter bash site
look how perfectly my hat fits
oh hey what hat should I make Community wear on my sites
@ArtOfCode MOD ABUSE!
I am, but you know there will always be some hitch in one of them that a CM will clarify. That is what should be there too. Plus we need the pictures.
12:30 AM
nah, mod fun
PS I'm wining network wide with 5 :)
Are masks really hats?
@10Replies Well, earrings were, so ...
I hope this list will have more data then just the sentence you get from the list.
12:33 AM
oh hey 10k meta rep too
well that's a nice christmas present
i dont know how to put on the mask for my pic
Have fun with deleted posts.
I bet they're a right riot on main meta.
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A: First Responder hat of the 2016 winter bash

balphaTo be fair, the hat description post a message in chat within ±12 hours of the UTC New Year’s begin that gets starred does not mention which New Years… … and so it was accidentally awarded for New Years 2016 :( Fixed now, and the hats removed (while we tend to let users keep hats that wer...

lol wrong new year
lol
I like the fact that there are multi-site hats this year.
But not the fact that there are SO-specific hats.
12:39 AM
me too, it is going to me interesting.
ask someone who does to give you something to post
@bleh I'm working on that now. But I haven't done anything with the docs since I left it on the first public day.
I wrote half the HTTP documentation... shoulda kept some back for winterbash
@bluefeet the WB queen herself. Welcome, and thank you.
12:47 AM
(removed)
not the "removed" thing again...
@bluefeet can you shed any light on the The NeverEnding Story hat? I have edited nearly every field, is there something I am missing?
gosh darn it upvoter couldnt u wait 2 hours
@bleh I know. I had two silvers this week, I said the same thing.
winterbash2016.stackexchange.com/polymath is going to be hard. Most sites don't even get you 10 votes.
im pretty sure well recieved means 1 vote
and we have the first secret hat
180
12:58 AM
where?
hold on...
has the only hat for myth.SE T_T
@bluefeet if you are the one "managing" the WB I just sent in my first secret guess.
@David There is no secret hat for guessing secret hats this year
@bluefeet that is a disappointment. but I'm not too surprised. things got out of hand last year.
These hats match my profile nicely
NO HELMETS!!!! AAAAAAAAAAH!
for the record I did not rush out and ping pops. I thought that hairboat was dead
thought??!?!?!?
1:06 AM
@David wait
is that a hint
no
he doesnt know
@bleh I do too.
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Q: Winter Bash 2016 All Hats

DavidI decided to start the traditional secret hats post, but instead of just another "here is how you get the secret hats" post, to also add in all the hats. There are two answers, one for the secret hats, and one for the regular hats. Some notes about secret hats: A secret hat for correctly gue...

read the edit
oh i see
i think 180 is like the red baron hat last year
why do you think that?
i mean
I think it is like waffle from 2 year ago
the flying tiger
@bleh same thing
because -3 to +3
180 turn
lol, do we have enough people to test it?
@David but red baron was 2 years ago so i changed it :P
@bleh but he has not posted any questions or answer during the bash, only activity is edits
1:12 AM
oh
hmm
@David hmm
And the guessing and button pushing begins
hmm
maybe -3+3 after an edit you made
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ but we get no bathtub.
@bleh votes are 0 and 0
who is teh person
@David does amped up really need to be shared on social media?
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ maybe, havent asked anybody
1:17 AM
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ try it:chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/34195784#34195784
:) lol
Is SO receiving a sudden spike in traffic?
dont know? hats can do that...
1:21 AM
man meta is brutal. Why DV the hat post?
wow
maybe because it isn't community wiki?
4 times
O, didn't even thing of the Q being CW, all the answers are.
@David just a guess is why have regular hats in the post?
All those details are on the main page
1:27 AM
Seems redundant

 The Nineteenth Byte

The Nineteenth Byte: General discussion for codegolf.stackexc...
has better hat discussion
@bluefeet maybe... but it is for history. If all these people were are fanatical about the bash as I am, they would be wishing someone did that years ago.
@David I prefer the secret hats only post but maybe that's just me.
@bluefeet Request: Community User wears hats.
1:29 AM
Eventually
2
I figured, the secret hat answer would get UVed more, so the regular hats would just sit at the bottom for the ones who want to see it.
It can only be done on a site by site basis
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ amped up hat: nope. just share a link, with 5 clicks.
cool, we can do that right now
And obviously they have to get a hat. Are there close hats this year?
1:31 AM
yep :)
Community could get one of those pretty easy
@quartata you mean secret hats?
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ that wont work. need to be your share link
@David No for closing questions
1:32 AM
@quartata yes
1 for close, 1 for open
like last year
Then yeah Community could get that with a self close.
I want to give him a hat now lol
I think that's what happened on PPCG last year
Then Doorknob just put it on
1:35 AM
Wasn't a great hat but it was a hat
hm, I voted at least 7 times on mobile but haven't got the hat?
all on PPCG
takes time
Mine took a while to show up
@bluefeet will you confirm that there are no have for doing reviews.
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ oh, okay
Wireless was slow as molasses last year too
1:36 AM
Takes exactly 5 minutes
Was gonna ask on the meta, but there was already a question from several years ago
Man I wish I wasn't too lazy to get hats
@quartata try caffeine
I guess I'll retroactively retire champion from last year
1:37 AM
@quartata lol the bash is just a bit older then 30 mins, you've got lots of time.
@David I haven't done anything interesting on main in like 6 months
another secret hat stackoverflow.com/users/3814799/… "This is fine"
Besides I can't top rarest hat + first Onion Knight. It's quality that matters not quantity
@David oo
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ if I did not know any better I would say that was from review, but I highly doubt there is a review hat.
1:39 AM
How many have we found so far?
3
4
A: Winter Bash 2016 All Hats

JamalSecret Hats Don't Wanna Taco 'Bout it this is a secret hat 180°

180 is something about reversal.
Wasn't there a Reversal hat one of the previous years?
If I get the secret hat for guessing a secret hat, then I'll reenable hats.
@Hosch250 did you read bluefeet's edit?
> A secret hat for correctly guessing a secret hat will no longer be awarded.
1:42 AM
Just saw it.
so no bathtub, light bulb etc
as what?
unclear what you are asking
fine.
there is your hat.
Note: flagging for closing/delete counts for the abomindable snowman hat
meta.stackexchange.com/a/288279/278094 this is the kind of thing I/m looking for the hat post.
Wow
That is exactly what I like to see
2:08 AM
@MonicaCellio congratulations on being the first one to get the "snaphat"
@David really? I would have figured somebody more fanatical would have beaten me to it. :-)
@MonicaCellio I wonder who you might be hinting at :)
@David says #2 on the SE-wide leaderboard.
@MonicaCellio :)
Iwas #1 on the network, meta and blender. I must be slipping here
2:16 AM
The first hours are probably quite volatile.
yeah
once it gets in the 10+ range it will start seperating
What is that snapchat "hat" meant to be, anyway? The eyebrows/shades suggest that the rainbow is meant to come out of a face-like avatar's face at the nose or maybe mouth. I was going to wear it, but all I could think of was "runny nose". :-)
Weird rainbow-colored runny nose, I mean.
Why don't I have the never ending story? I edited my developer story
takes forever to load
2:22 AM
Holy cow; this question has nearly 400k views. No wonder I keep getting drive-by rep from my answer there. (And ooh, close to a gold badge!)
and it's only on SO also
@10Replies mine took about 10 minutes. Have patience.
@MonicaCellio that's actually a good answer, so have a hat + badge + 10 rep!
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ thanks! One of my earliest; I'd had an account about a month at the time.
(I also figured I'd test the link-sharing hat to see if it works from here, though of course I'll only get confirmation of a positive answer, not a negative one.)
@10Replies mine took a LONG time to come
(I even pinged bluefeet to see if there was a problem)
2:29 AM
so . . . I have to wait a while then
@MonicaCellio it does.
@10Replies I still don't have it, either. Just to make sure, I went ahead and added something that I happened to forget earlier.
@Jamal any insight as to how you came across your secret hat?
@David I just remember editing some older questions to add tags.
wow, how do people have 7 already
2:31 AM
@Jamal so I saw. but you did nothing that would not show up in your activity feed
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ pretty easy, I already have 6
if these SO people will approve my Doc edit I'll have 7 too
Maybe it was a tag-only edit, or editing without leaving an edit reason.
2:32 AM
Could have been the the "Unsalvageable" thing?
@Jamal I'll cross check the edit times with others that got the hat
that seems to fit with the name of the hat
hat names always have a meaning, but at first it is not so clear what that is.
"This Is Fine" piques my interest. I guess it has nothing to do with receiving downvotes and not editing that post.
and did reviews, but I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.
180, stumped me for now, not enough data.
2:36 AM
Morning guys
I'll try a tag-only edit on MSE and see if that triggers the taco hat.
My eyes are half open, but I'm still here!
@Jamal I already tried that
@BhargavRao welcome to the fun
Can't get a gold badge this time though.
Nice work @David
thanks. having fun too :)
PS @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ I'm at 8 now
2:47 AM
Discovered any reasons for secret hats?
not that I know of, still working...
Hi, guys!
Tweeted your question.
You could also check for one vote short posts of yours that'll help get a hat (Great Answer, Necromancer, Enlightened, or Guru).
@Jamal or it might be related to the latest blog post
2:58 AM
@Vogel612 interesting angle.
or to be more accurate, a gif from the transcript of said blog-post relating to a talk by joel ...
I'm taking the taco hat slowly, I 'm pretty sure it has something to do with editing, so I'm giving the hat system time between my edits.
edits without edit-summary maybe?
I mentioned that, and I think someone confirmed that it didn't work.
would've been too easy.
SOCVR did speculate about it being related to comments maybe
but that didn't turn out well ...
3:05 AM
Is taco related to bounties?
any confirmed secret hats?
confirmed for what causes them? don't think so
maybe it's still related to editing without summary, but doesn't trigger at a single edit, but only after a few
@David nice to see you tied for first
3:21 AM
Hi, guys! Do you have any hats, yet?
3:36 AM
Good day guys
hi
Tweeted here twitter.com/BhargavHS/status/810678960744906752 ... Analytics says 3 clicks till now
@BhargavRao I clicked for you, but just so you know you dont have to share it on any social media. I got two of those hats now, just from posting my share links in here.
@BhargavRao brought me to a 404
3:41 AM
It was the first question asked on Stack Overflow
@SamuelLiew how do you keep finding secret has?!?
nice going by the way!
@David I have no idea honestly
:) that is how it usually goes.
you are in the best position to know what gets it, any ideas what you were doing?
Editing old posts that I have answered, starting two bounties, did a bunch of reviews
Rob
Rob
3:45 AM
@SamuelLiew editing seams to be tied to two of them
@Rob lol, I already that that open.
Rob
Rob
Are the hats shown in the order you got them, or in a predefined order?
@SamuelLiew you think it has anything to do with your good answer badge (but I doubt it)
@Rob on what page?
@SamuelLiew How do you earn that secret hats, such as "Don't Wanna Taco 'Bout It", and "Elementary" ?
Rob
Rob
On a user's profile page - when you click the profile image to see their hats
3:48 AM
@LloydDominic that is the question of the night!
Oh, okay!
By the way, I'm new to chatting on stack Exchange ...
@Rob not order you got them, it is like last year it is just by hat id.
"Don't wanna taco bout it" might be from comments or chat.
@LloydDominic welcome. you come at a great time
3:49 AM
Okay ...
maybe have comments with enough votes?
or enough stars
can we pin the hat meta post?
It boils down to "Don't want to talk about it."
@Hosch250 comments was my first thought, but all the people that have it, have edited, not all have commented
3:50 AM
Ah. An edit without a summary, perhaps.
@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ done
Why don't the hats tell you how you got them after you get them?
Rob
Rob
@Hosch250 I thought it might be earned by leaving a room.. unfortunately not the case
@AndrewLi "it's a secret"
3:51 AM
@AndrewLi To keep it secret for others.
They announce them after it is over.
Should I get the hats in order, or in any order?
Any order.
Okay, thanks!
Some can only be gotten on certain days.
Some will be very difficult to get.
But, why?
3:52 AM
:(
There is one for posting on Christmas, for example.
like the solstice (Dec 21) always has a special hat.
@Hosch250 What hat is it?
Not sure, look and find out.
3:54 AM
Has anyone tried editing and not adding a summary?
Is it the "Buche de Noel" ?
http://winterbash2016.stackexchange.com/b%C3%BBche-de-no%C3%ABl
@Hosch250 yep
Oh, so that's it ...
not that.
and it seemingly has nothing to do with the question date or time
How many characters?
3:56 AM
it what?
Rob
Rob
So both Samuel and another user got a silver badge today. Neither got 925, but got the taco hat
Jamal got the Taco hat, and he is a huge editor.
@Rob what silver did samuel get?
Rob
Rob
Enlightened
Nevermind, it's only 7minutes ago
After he got the hat
@Rob I just got it
3:57 AM
Probably adding/removing a certain number of characters without a summary. Perhaps over a certain number of posts.
that means he will be tied with me for first, again :)
@David I'll probably fall behind later
The nearest silver badge for me is the Taxonomist
Whoops, wrong room.
dont worry I dont mind sharing first.
3:59 AM
3 messages moved from The ASCII Collab Club
@BhargavRao not ture, you can always get the answer a6 month old question, +5 UV your answer
Does anyone have an idea what the taco hat is?
@AndrewLi It is almost related to edits, we think.
@AndrewLi not really, we all are bouncing ideas around

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