Winter / Summer Bash 2022

Are we sure of the conditions for "Not Found"? I've tried to visit nonexistent pages on multiple SE sites, confirmed the 404 response in "Web Developer Tools" => "Network". But Not Found was Not Found.

Ethan

@dbc yes

starball

2:18 AM

do we know what "this is the way" is for? My guess is either for closing duplicates ("signpost"), or for something like the announcer badges (share links off-site and get people to click on them). I haven't gotten it yet.

U12-Forward

Hey guys!

starball

hello! I like your avatar image :)

nice to meet you

U12-Forward

@starball Haha!

Hey guys! How do I actually get the Mmm, Cookies! hat?

Ethan

go to the bottom of the page and click the thing about cookies

U12-Forward

I did it a few times, no hat?

Ethan

2:30 AM

wait

and if not try changing something

starball

@Ethan shouldn't need to change any cookie settings. the hat description says so itself.

Ethan

I know I did

But also I noticed the tracking coockies were on so I wanted to disable them anyways

I thought they were off but probably mixing it up with something esle

James Risner

2:51 AM

@dbc Go to this comment, you should get the hat. mechanics.stackexchange.com/posts/comments/62836

U12-Forward

3:03 AM

Wait.. Why can't I change my SO to dark theme

strange..

Any secret hat clues?

James Risner

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Q: Winter / Summer Bash 2022 Hat List ☃️ 🏖️

Winter / Summer Bash 2022 has started and the hats are listed below. As always, there are only two answers: one for the secret hats, and one for the regular hats. The secret hat list will be updated as we learn them. Please, only edit the secret hat answer with definitive and correct triggers. Th...

dbc

3:20 AM

@JamesRisner That worked thanks! Wonder why it's not working on SO.

James Risner

3:33 AM

It would, you need to know a deleted question with a comment, then go to the comment.

dbc

But I can view deleted posts on SO. Does that mean I can't get the hat on SO?

starball

if you're talking about the "not found" hat, you can just visit <siteurl>/404

James Risner

@starball I thought someone said that doesn't work on SO. It works on other sites.

@dbc If you have the link to the comment, it doesn't matter whether or not you can see deleted.

@Catija new theory: unflagging is someone undeletes a comment or post I flagged for deletion?

Eran

3:58 AM

I got flagging during the night. @Catija is it given for voting to delete 5 posts that get deleted? At first I thought 1 would be enough, but that didn't work (unless the delay was too long and I wasn't patient enough )

U12-Forward

4:17 AM

@Eran With this theory, would being the last user to vote to delete the post count?

Just got Flagging!

@Catija Is the Flagging hat rewarded for flagging 10 posts?

Rob

4:33 AM

@U12-Forward I got it for 1 flag. How did you get 404 and Verified?

Just got 404, guess it takes a long time.

U12-Forward

@Rob stackoverflow.com/404

Verified I am not sure

related to something like getting 10 stars

1 star in 10 messsages

Winter/Summer Bash Starring room

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emanresu A

Huh got verified

I'm pretty sure it's 10 starred messages - chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/141312/se-chat-test-chamber-02

@Catija Can you confirm that Verified is 10 starred messages?

Eran

4:48 AM

@U12-Forward well, at least in my case I was the last user

James Risner

5:00 AM

@U12-Forward Hoping for Hey Listen, do you think this is a good re-open target? stackoverflow.com/questions/74794085/…

U12-Forward

@Eran Cool

@JamesRisner You should go to the Reppen queue and edit and reopen

James Risner

@U12-Forward I'm 2917 rep, isn't that at 3000?

@starball you know the method to trigger Unflagging?

@U12-Forward I've asked if it is 10 to get flagging, and they said no. But I can reliably trigger it by doing 10 at the rate of 1 every 5 seconds.

dbc

@JamesRisner Sure enough stackoverflow.com/posts/comments/118551525 worked on SO (with added bonus of lovely code snapshot included here i.stack.imgur.com/UhUs1.jpg)

Panda

5 hours ago, by Panda

@Catija Is the trigger for Verified "Post 10 messages that gets starred in chat." ;)

5 hours ago, by Catija

@Panda not quite

James Risner

5:16 AM

@panda Do you know the trigger method for maria molano?

Panda

@JamesRisner My hunch's that it's related to doing reviews – perhaps the Reopen queue.

James Risner

@Panda I think Thomas is confirmed on the close queue, so maria reopen. Nice. Maybe I'll make it to 3000 before Jan 1.

@panda you think this is worthy of reopen? stackoverflow.com/questions/74794085/…

starball

@JamesRisner just flag and unflag a comment I think. That seems to be how I've gotten it multiple times.

Panda

@JamesRisner :) ATB on getting review access!

@JamesRisner It appears to me that it's unclear on what it's asking.

> Please edit your question to provide more details on what you expected to happen versus what actually happened. This gives readers a better chance to figure out what didn’t work and to answer your question accordingly. – from canned comments

Not a React SME myself so take that with a pinch of salt.

James Risner

@starball flag a comment and retract? Yes. I thought all mine were that way. but it seems not, because I only got it on 3 sites and I've tried many. My theory is you flag, someone else undeletes.

Panda

5:24 AM

Let me try Unflagging, haven't gotten that hat yet.

Catija

5:35 AM

@JamesRisner No

@Eran No

starball

@JamesRisner what flag reason are you using? I'm using "no longer needed"

James Risner

@starball I found 11 "thank you" and NLN them (poof) then pick something that won't poof and NLN, then retract. That worked on Apple, SO, and IT Security but no other sites.

InanimateBeing

Chatterbox hat triggers by chatting in a group and ones messages should appear as 6 separate boxes (in the same chat group). Is this not it?

emanresu A

5:53 AM

@Panda Ah, okay. Is it getting 10 total stars in chat during winter bash? (@Catija)

James Risner

6:18 AM

Odd, I'm having trouble with Rules Lawyer on other sites. It's not giving me more than stackoverflow.

Catija

@JamesRisner manually edit the URL. For some reason the footer network wide links to SO.

James Risner

Oh boo!

thanks. I somehow didn't notice

starball

6:49 AM

@JamesRisner /conduct

James Risner

thanks

Shadow Wizard Chasing Stars

@Catija well, feel free to poke someone to reply to this, @Sonic noticed this years ago.

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I noticed that each site in the network has its own copy of the Terms of Service, e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service, https://meta.stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service, https://travel.stackexchange.com/legal/terms-of-service, etc. But the link to the terms in the footer of...

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JShobbyist

7:29 AM

Hi all,
Nice to meet you.

U12-Forward

Hey!

JShobbyist

How can I get the "Defender of the Unicorn" hat?

starball

@JShobbyist hello!

Ankit Sharma

7:45 AM

Asking and answering 16 questions are too much uff

JShobbyist

7:56 AM

@starball hi

James Risner

8:12 AM

@JShobbyist I don't believe it's known.

mousetail

Could "everything everywhere at once" be for answering questions in N different tags?

James Risner

Maybe, but I don't recall seeing answers that match when I checked...

starball

@JShobbyist Does this answer your question?

11 hours ago, by Catija

@Steffan this is correct.

James Risner

One has 7 total unique tags across 4 answers. The 4 answers had 4, 4, 5, and 5 tags

VLAZ

9:00 AM

@VLAZ @Catija can you confirm/deny this?

starball

9:14 AM

things I tried today that didn't seem to do anything: click and open an ad. subscribe to a Stack Exchange email filter and click some links from the emails. hide all my communities in my profile. add and remove a profile picture.

SPArcheon

no chat easter egg did anything BTW

JShobbyist

9:30 AM

@Catija, for the "Back In My Day" secret hat, I saw that someone said it can get by voting on an old question. I tried it out and it worked well for me. Are you able to confirm this?

VLAZ

31 mins ago, by VLAZ

@VLAZ @Catija can you confirm/deny this?

Oh if you quote, you don't get the link?

13 hours ago, by VLAZ

I don't know if anybody said this but: trigger for "Back In My Day" is upvoting a question or answer (downvoting doesn't count) and the post should be at least 5 years old. created:2017-12-14..2017-12-14 finds posts that will give you the hat. created:2017-12-16..2017-12-16 does not. For 2017-12-15 - depends on the hour - later on the day won't trigger the hat, earlier will.

JShobbyist

I am not sure if it's what I was looking for since @Catija did two answers.
"@Steffan this is correct.
@Steffan This is not"

VLAZ

10:23 AM

@JShobbyist Two answers for two comments. First one saying "this is correct" is about reporting a Winter Bash bug. The second one saying "this is not" is about needing a [status-complete].

b_jonas

10:48 AM

The non-secret hats at least have a nice range between very easy and very hard. The K-Pop Light Stick requires an answer scoring over 100. My highest scoring answer ever on SE has score 57.

And my highest scoring question has score 72. What makes this extra funny is that my highest scoring post on Perlmonks has 110 score. How was it easier for me to get a highly upvoted post there?

SPArcheon

@b_jonas I have said this multiple times by now.

Stack has a tunnel vision problem with SO

they often make assumptions based on SO numbers, and this reflects on hats too.

b_jonas

Let me look up some numbers. Perlmonks has about 1_220_000 votable nodes I think, and apparently about 2000 have score above 100.

emanresu A

11:03 AM

This is the way has got to be related to asking a question

b_jonas

Sci Fi SE has 70593 questions and 126160 answers. This is a bit unfair because it doesn't count Sci Fi Meta, nor comments, both of which are counted in the Perlmonks number.

nohillside

@emanresuA Asking and then accepting/upvoting an answer?

emanresu A

Not accepting

Possibly/probably upvoting

b_jonas

Can you get Rules Lawyer only on SO?

nohillside

@b_jonas No ;-) It's in the chat above somewhere

b_jonas

11:13 AM

@Catija oh, thank you!

Rob

@nohillside Would you be so kind as to unfreeze this Winter Bash chat room: chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/226664/… - thanks.

@Catija, is the hat "Back in my day" obtained by upvoting an old question - we'll update the hat list: meta.stackexchange.com/q/384707/282094

b_jonas

Sci Fi SE has 70593 questions, of which 167 scoring at least 100, and 126160 answers, of which 517 scoring at least 100. data.stackexchange.com/scifi/query/1688743/…

That does mean it's somewhat easier to get a 100 score answer on Sci Fi than on Perlmonks, which is what I expected.

Rob

@nobody I got the verified hat by having 10 different chat messages starred.

b_jonas

oh no

oh! this room is under chat.stackechange, not chat.meta. that's why I didn't find it.

Is "Mmm, Cookies!" one of those shape-changing hats that shows a partly eaten or full cookie depending on how many cookies you accept?

You know, like the moon/sun hats from previous years.

emanresu A

11:39 AM

Oh also everything everywhere all at once is not related to posting answers

Source: Catija got it after only posting a question

I've found two users who both have it, are pretty much the only people on the site to have it, and have almost no overlap in activity...

SPArcheon

Is Verified stars requirement tied to a single room or it can be across multiple rooms?

Anyway, we need more people in the star room

That for some reason isn't even pinned here.

Winter/Summer Bash Starring room

chat room for placing a star on users comments, some years it ...

^ someone please pin the link

nohillside

12:00 PM

@Rob Would love to, but my superpowers are limited to AskDifferent :-)

Rob

@nohillside OK, thanks anyways. @Catija, could you help us with that?

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Catija

12:45 PM

@b_jonas no

@Rob so needy.

@Rob both too specific and not specific enough.

mousetail

So it's some number of different actions that can trigger it, not just upvoting

And the time period is more specific I guess

Catija

@ShadowWizardChasingStars One of the devs was actually going to fix it but they told me it's harder than they thought so it didn't happen.

VLAZ

@mousetail Downvotes don't work. I'd hazard a guess that close or delvotes don't, either.

mousetail

Maybe comments work?

VLAZ

Dunno.

Rob

12:48 PM

Thank you very much, the Stack Overflow hat seekers appreciate that.

b_jonas

@mousetail oh, that's why I got it so easily. I have 21 necromancer badges, looking at old questions comes naturally to me.

VLAZ

@mousetail The time period is exactly 5 years or more.

Rob

Both upvote and over 5 years old.

Catija

@VLAZ I think so.

mousetail

So upvoting or answring. One is much easier than the other lol

Catija

12:50 PM

I don't explicitly remember it being upvotes only but it is possible

Apparently it is only upvotes so, yes.

Rob

At your convenience, after we confirm, we'll update the answer: meta.stackexchange.com/q/384707/282094

Thanks.

b_jonas

Why am I not getting the Tourist hat? Do I need to do it on a site where I don't yet have the badge? I take the tour everywhere just for the free badge, so I'd have to join another SE site if it requires that.

Catija

Yeah. it's tied to the badge, so if you don't get the badge, you don't get the hat.

Adrian Mole

The "Flagging" hat is proving to be elusive on SO. I have well over 20 helpful flags in the past 2/3 days but no hat. Does it, perhaps, need a comment flag?

Rob

^^^ Answer updated.

mousetail

12:57 PM

I'm pretty sure flagging is related to one of the queues

SPArcheon

@Catija Can you please post that here?

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Q: Tourist hat actual requirement: read the Tour page or get the Informed badge?

The Tourist hat description states: Yet apparently reading the Tour badge is not enough to get the Tourist hat if you already have the Informed badge. I don't know what is the intended behavior, so I am posting this for reference: either the trigger is wrong and should be fixed or the descriptio...

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Or, if you prefer I can post it and reference your message, but you will miss on the rep.

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