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Following the tradition of previous years 1, 2, now that the wrap-up blog post about Winter Bash has been posted, can we have some more stats about hats? Including: A count of all hats awarded How many users did it take to get "Just Here for the Hat" on each site? Plus anything else of note a...

There are four of us that got all the hats. However I'm slightly baffled by the order we appear. I'm wondering what the order is where there is a tie (like the four of us in first place). Some things I know it is not: First to get 41 hats Last to get the 41st hat Alphabetically by user name ...

I was awarded the "First Responder" hat late yesterday on Community Building. As you can see the hat was awarded later than "Epiphany" (Jan 6th). This is because there is a bug (or loophole) in the way the "First Responder" hat is awarded. When the room parent site - in this case for Ye Olde...

Every time I try to change hats, I get an error message. This started happening after I got my account merged with old account; prior to that hats worked fine for me. This is probably the same problems as this issue from 2015: My winter hats don't work, which was closed as non-reproducible.

Is bounty swapping allowed? Meaning, can I make an agreement with someone on another exchange to award bounties on each others questions? I'm asking because as I've become somewhat obsessed with hats, I'm concocting plans to get the next hat. I realized that running ragged is a bit out of reac...

I just got the Epiphany hat but it had a weird description seeing this i went to the hat list on the Winterbash page to see if this was just a Secret Hat with had a different description since these descriptions are the unlocking requirements except for Secret Hats (but generally it's "this is...

I went on a hunting trip for the Lifesaver hat on Stack Overflow en español. and three of my answers to tumbleweeds were accepted: Cómo interpretar los resultados del profiler en Netbeans 8.1    - No activity since May 2016.    - No comments and no edits until I posted the answer (timeline...

This question is intertwined with an earlier one I posted Maverick Hat BOUNTY rules? I answered a -3 question on January 1 and on the same day I placed a bounty on it. The bounty, which I cannot award to myself, is 100 points because users who have posted an answer cannot offer a bounty for le...

If I'm understand the epiphany badge correctly, it's supposed to be awarded for posting on January 6th, but I've been awarded it today (January 5th). This seems like a bug to me. Is this the desired behaviour (perhaps related to extreme timezones) or is it a bug?

Winterbash 2016 is not over yet (it started later than usual this year and will end later than usual), but after noticing that the corresponding versions of this question for Winterbash 2015 and Winterbash 2014 were posted on Jan 4 2016 and Jan 4 2015 respectively, I figured it would be fitting ...

The description for Fiery is: post five answers that each get a score of at least 3 Does it include self-answers that get a score of at least 3?

It seems that there are no badges similar to the criteria of the Maverick hat: answer +5 a -3 question that goes to +3 This badge would promote users to answer many underrated good questions. Would this make a good silver badge?

The Hatter secret hat is described below. Copied from here The Hatter [![The Hatter][13]][13b]  [13]: https://i.sstatic.net/tAvM7.png  [13b]: https://i.sstatic.net/FvtLW.png Why is it called The Hatter? I cannot figure out the relevance of the name. From what I remember, it would ...

There is an issue with a particular link's 404 error page in the Winter Bash 2016 For an example, the below two URLs are response the generic 404 error page http://winterbash2016.stackexchange.com/hats http://winterbash2016.stackexchange.com/test But http://winterbash2016.stackexchange.com/ha...

When i looked on the winterbash page where they describe about each of the hats, there is the description of Third Time's A Charm Hat http://winterbash2016.stackexchange.com/third-times-a-charm which tells to hit the reputation cap on three different days Now when i look over the ans...

Over the course of the years, the winter bash site has featured multiple easter eggs. For example, in 2015, it was possible to force the stickmen walking around on the page to sit down in an heart formation. Has anyone noticed something similar on the site this year? As a reference, here is a ...

I love our hats, and we spend so much time without them. Can we have an extended period, after finding them all, that we can wear them, pretty please? Pics of my horse in hats, as the hats won't last long.. :'(

More efficient way to clean a column of strings and add a new column Was a -3 question in which I answered and has subsequently become a 3+ question along with my answer becoming 5+. Are there other criteria that aren't listed? Is it possible the periodic criteria checker has skipped it for so...

The following is the procedure needed in order to win the coveted Maverick hat during Winter Bash 2016/17 Find a question that is scored -3. Answer it. Wait until your answer is scored +5 and the question is scored +3. HAT! source What happens in a bounty scenario? Let's...

Some hats are asymmetric, as are some avatars. Rotation helps some, but really, we need the option of flipping the hat as well. Just look at my avatar with the Sherlock Holmes hat. I want the looking glass over my eye! (Actually, there's also the issues of hats assuming the avater is a face loo...

I read through this post which states that the bug has been fixed, but I didn't receive my Running Ragged hat. Here's the reputation from PPCG, SU, and Meta.SE: Everything added up gives +152 for PPCG, +150 for SU, and +402 for Meta.SE over the span of 12 days (21st to 1st UTC). Why wasn't I...

I hold the stack community to very high standards in everything from technical discussions to being acutely aware of cultural sensitivities. As a vegetarian and animal lover I found the 'Bacon' simply too offensive. I'm keen to hear what the other stack<*>ians have to say.

There are two different versions of the hat "Where in the World?", which, according to the list of hat-triggers, is awarded [f]or participating on a site, when it's December 21 (the December solstice) anywhere in the World. (This hat comes in two forms, but you can only get one.) What w...

I love the background on the Winter Bash page (found here winterbash2016.stackexchange.com). How is it done? I noticed that there are some images, but how did they make the images and how are they positioned and spinning? A great answer would say the software used to make the images and the cod...

I appear to have just got this hat But for me atleast it is still the 29th of December. Is this due to timezones? I am UTC+00 (i.e. GMT) timezone, but at a guess Australia etc currently are already in December 30th... Or does a poor wombat need taking care of (I hope it isn't that serious :)?

I understand the obvious point of having "participation medal" type rewards, including hats (e.g. "logged into the site on specific date") in the larger design of the system. I'm talking about hats like "Bacon", "Dreidel", "Noel", "Epiphany" or "Just here for the hats" in 2016. The problem is,...

Is there any meaning of the design of Hats or, this is just design, some one have an explication why this Hats look like this, some hats the meaning of them is clear, but others its not clear at all. And who propose this hats to be like this? Thank you.

Today while searching I voted on a question and suddenly got a hat so out of curiosity I checked it and it said I received a "Mmmm Bacon" hat, as shown below. Now the question is how a hat that is to be awarded on 30th of December is awarded on 29th of December? Is this a bug or something els...

I had two questions in hot network questions list today. I find that quite exciting. Are there no hats for such stuff?

I have a doubt, I just received the Snapchat hat for a question that was made 2 days ago and I answered two days ago, but until today I have not had more than 3 votes and it has been accepted today. My question is: should the answer be accepted within 30 minutes of the question being asked? Or i...

Currently hats count means count of different hats (because one hat can be earned more then once), but even tooltip doesn't say about it: : My request is to add word "different" (or more suitable word in this context) for more clearer text.

I got three notifications about hats today: Does this mean I earned the hat once, for well-received answers on those three sites, or three times, for well-received answers on 9 sites?

The description of Lifesaver is as follows: accepted answer to Tumbleweed If I have a Tumbleweed question and answer it myself with 1 upvote, will I earn the hat?

In previous years it was possible to resize the hat easily. Now I don't know how to do it. The default size of the hat is too small, how do I make it bigger?

The Philantropist hat says: Award a bounty, to someone else, on the last day of hats While you can place a bounty on your own question, you cannot award a bounty to yourself. Why does the Philantropist explicitly mention this? Less is more, so I think it should be Award a bounty on th...

Do we have secret hats for this year also in Winter Bash 2016?

Recently, I found out from a blog post that Winter Bash 2012 used quite an interesting domain, http://winterba.sh. Just curious, why isn't it being reused, since it's a fitting domain name and that it's redirected to stackpromos.com?

There was a hat last year awarded to answers that were accepted but did not receive any votes for 12 hours (Naruto). The only legitimate situation that comes to my mind for OP to not upvote the accepted answer is when OP is a new user and doesn't have the upvote privilege yet (less than 15 rep). ...

The Winter Bash hats look too good to let disappear into the hat box at the end of the bash! Sure it's possible to screenshot them, but is it possible to download a copy of them, to have in all their vector goodness?

The hat description is: post at least one well-received answer on three different sites during Winter Bash (not including Stack Overflow) I have posted these three answers on three different sites: Meta SE How do I find a user whose name contains a space? Score: 4. Accepted. Scifi SE...

Continuing the tradition of asking for the meanings of hats. Hats like What's up doc can be deciphered easily as related to our favorite cartoon. However hats like Running ragged are difficult to guess. bluefeet has already mentioned about the number only hats in this meta answer. Hence the...

The Running Ragged hat say: earn 150 reputation points on three different sites (not including Stack Overflow) within 15 days. Does this mean that you must collectively earn 150 reputation points on 3 sites, or 150 points on each individual site?

It's not awarded yet, but the participation hat for December 30th (give or take a few timezones) will be Mmmm Bacon. That's wonderful, because almost* everybody here loves baconcitation needed. However, why is this hat awarded on December 30th only? The other date-based hats** all correspond ...

When I look at the leaderboard for the Mathematica site where I have been awarded 13 hats, nine of these hats are shown. I don't see any particular pattern to the ones that show up. How are they selected from set that I have?

Here on Meta.SE I received the I Have a Little Dreidel when I got an upvote on this question last night, before I did anything - the first thing that I did on SE was go to the Puzzling, and then I clicked on notifications. When I clicked on the hats, I saw that I had earned IHALD on Meta.SE, afte...

In this answer, Sklivvz announced that in the next built after the 21st, 13:37 UTC, the Snaphat should be fixed and working as described. Yet I was awarded the Snaphat twice without the conditions being met: This answer: 23rd,   9:15: question posted 23rd, 10:52: answer posted (97 minutes la...

The description for Polymath is: post at least one well-received answer on three different sites during Winter Bash (not including Stack Overflow) What is considered "well-received"? 1 upvote for each answer?

I am not sure whether I am the only one noticing this, but if you have a look at the bottom of the Winterbash page, there is one massive reindeer on the left and one tiny unicorn to the right. Sure, you might claim, that the reindeer is in the foreground while as the unicorn is in the backgrou...

The Running Ragged description states: earn 150 reputation points on three different sites (not including Stack Overflow) within 15 days. I've not received the hat yet, but I've earned 242 rep on Meta and 160 on Movies & TV: On English Language & Usage I've received 372 rep, but I've st...