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3:06 AM
so what did I do Christmas eve and Christmas you ask? write more answer trying to get the stupid explorer hat.
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I'm on my 12th answer for that hat.
 
 
7 hours later…
10:00 AM
Waffle hat work for old question too? which are posted before WB?
 
10:37 AM
@AnkitSharma I think so, yes
 
@Mithrandir I didn't got it here but now trying again
 
10:58 AM
How much time it will take to award waffle hat O.o
 
@AnkitSharma Note that if you upvoted that question, you have to get to a score of 4 (i.e. your vote doesn't count for getting the hat). I believe this may also be the case if your vote was one of the votes that originally brought the question down to -3.
 
@Eran In this case it was -3 before my vote and not final score is 3 ( including my vote) and answer is at 6. You mean to say question need another vote here?
 
@AnkitSharma yes
 
maybe I should drop the idea of waffle hat then
 
11:20 AM
Got the waffles hat already, so no worries
 
congrats. I'm missing 4 hats, and in the best case I'll manage to get two of them.
 
 
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2:01 PM
@Willeke by the way, it's hiccup (or hiccough, if you want to be historically accurate) ;-)
 
@RoryAlsop or, if you want to be really historically accurate, hickup.
 
2:35 PM
Well I finally got it. Took 18 tries! (no really I went back and counted) but now its mine.
Ok now I can do christmas things... like open presents.
I thought third time was so posted be the charm. Not the eighteenth time!
 
 
2 hours later…
4:38 PM
Does a Cosmic Brain answer have to be for answers posted during Winterbash? I have a feeling it's the only hat left that I have any hope of getting....
 
Nope.
 
@Mithrandir, Thanks. Then I shall go and get to work on cleaning up some of my close to "nice answer" answers and keep my fingers crossed :-)
 
 
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7:44 PM
@RoryAlsop, be happy I wrote it in such a way you understood it, whether right or not. English second language and dyslectic on top.
 
 
1 hour later…
8:53 PM
@Willeke lol. I was just having fun
 
9:11 PM
@RoryAlsop maybe you should consider that for many people spelling corrections are not fun, but hurtful memories to fails at school.
 
@Willeke Hey, don't take it too hard - he didn't mean to hurt you. I read it as a gentle "Hey, just FYI, this is how it's spelled", not in any condescending or hurtful way. Don't take it too hard :(
 
@Mithrandir, I did not take @RoryAlsop's reaction too badly, but you make it worse, way worse.
 
...how?
 
And to avoid this getting out of hand, I hope this is closed now. (for your information, bad memories from 'well willing bystanders' making situations worse all my school days.)
 
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring up bad memories.
 
9:28 PM
@Willeke in which case, I apologise.
 
10:16 PM
Thanks. Good night, and a good rest of Christmas.
 
11:02 PM
@alecxe good winter bash. You've been in first for most of it.
soon I will join you and AnkitSharma up there.
 
11:19 PM
@David indeed, a good one, lacking secret hats, but nonetheless, it's still fun. Happy holidays to you!
 
@alecxe please dont take this the wrong way, but I kind of hope you and AnkitSharma don't get the univerce brain hat (looks like I wont). That way we can all be in first.
 
:) of course, and I am not viewing your questions so that Fashionable takes longer for you :D
 
@alecxe lol.
I'm only 440 away on scifi so that seams doable.
 
You definitely gonna get it. To be honest, I expected nothing else as seeing you at the leaderboard at the very top.
I wonder if there are still secret hats that can be triggered but not yet found
I've even flagged Jon Skeet's posts hoping it would lead to a hat :D
 
@alecxe New years hat maybe
but other then that we are probably done.
 
11:28 PM
could be, nothing bounty related so far..
 
@alecxe you close to universe?
 
yeah
 
well good for you.
 
single upvote
 
no. really?
 
11:30 PM
it's a tough one, fo sure
 
link please
 
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A: npm check and update package if needed

alecxeThere is also a "fresh" module called npm-check: npm-check Check for outdated, incorrect, and unused dependencies. It also provides a convenient interactive way to update the dependencies.

 
@alecxe well I just UVed it.
 
Oh man, thanks!
 
congrats on being the first to all the hats!
(I hope I can join you now)
I'm at 73
so its questionable.
 
11:32 PM
I think it's gonna get the hundred, the post is pretty viral
 
@alecxe sad but not really. last year the "regular hat" answer had the 100 in 3 days.
its just not as popular this year
 
I guess WB is still less active as last year, right
 
very much so. its is about the same as 2015 though
 
start a bounty may be?..though it does not really provide an effect on meta posts usually..
ah, let me start it anyway
 
@alecxe exactly. I looked at doing that earlier.
 
11:35 PM
should I start it with "Looking for an answer drawing from credible and/or official sources."? :)
 
@alecxe how about "Draw attention"
but you really don't need to do that.
 
okay, done..hope it'll help
 
Oh thanks.
@alecxe on the plus side you can find out if there is a hat for "award bounty on last day"
just 27 votes in a week...
 
well, I am counting on a hat related to bounties..I've been awarding on several sites..nothing so far
I am thinking if there is something like "started before the new year, awarded after"..
 
I'll start two, one on my own question, and on on somebodies else. just to test the last day thing.
@alecxe good guess.
I was thinking of "Philantropist" from last year: Award a bounty, to someone else, on the last day of hats
 
11:40 PM
@David "my own question" could also be a good guess. May be even "bounty on your own question with your own answer only" - promotional-style bounty sort of
 
Ran into an odd edge case:
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Q: Do rep losses from deleted users count against Brunhilde?

Monica CellioBrunhilde is awarded for earning 150 reputation on each of three different sites (other than SO). I've earned the hat on four sites so far, three initially and the fourth today when I crossed that reputation threshold. So it appears that the hat isn't a one-time award; once you have it, other s...

 
hi @MonicaCellio good to see you around.
 
@David clicks user name to see who's under that hat. :-) Hi!
I don't think I'm going to get Universe Brain. Closest answer on Meta is 93, closest on Workplace is 89, and I think everything else is worse.
 
@MonicaCellio yah that hat!
@MonicaCellio I'm hoping the hat post goes from 73 :/
 
@David yes, congrats on finally getting that!
@David which hat post?
 
11:46 PM
@MonicaCellio which hat post!?! meta.stackexchange.com/a/304341/278094
you are active on meta, you are active in the WB. you know about the hat post.
 
@David oh, that one's yours? That's hard to see under the community wiki. I thought you meant an answer on the physical-hats post, maybe.
(There are tons of answers there.)
 
@MonicaCellio oh no,no. yah I have an answer buried in there but that is only for the swag. (its at 19 or something)
so how many more of you WB fanatics did not UV the hat list?
 
@David Catija's answer there really, err, takes the cake. :-) There are some other impressive ones too. Most of us are just part of the pack. (I think I'm at ~26 or so.)
@David I upvoted!
 
@MonicaCellio lol takes the cake. good one.
@MonicaCellio I just saw ;)
 
@MonicaCellio UVed yours, but not sure if they'd get to hundred without any extra attention
 
11:49 PM
@David and I see someone (hi) upvoted my top contenders on Meta and Workplace. Thanks!
@alecxe thanks!
 
@MonicaCellio I can do the meta, but it was not me (yet).
 
I assume that vote I just got was you. Thanks.
 
@MonicaCellio yep
see this is the part of the bash I like the most. (not the vote swapping) but the sportsmanship. We are all in this together. I just gave alecxe his last hat, and in turn he is helping me try to get it too.
Its like friends helping each other up a cliff.
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Absolutely! And now we are all, like friends helping each other out, going to downvote Ankit Sharma's posts so that he would not get that Universe Brain hat :D
 
@David yes, I like this sportsmanship too. I'm not in the same league as you guys; I'm just interested in collecting nice art without distorting the sites in the process.
 
11:59 PM
@alecxe oh come now. that joke is going a a bit too far.
 
yes, sorry
 

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