Yaakov Ellis

I'll start with a private room for charcoal admins + @ThomasWard and we'll go from there

@ThomasWard "so we'd require many more details than you're providing here" - that is the whole reason why I am reaching out

I'd like to speak to some of y'all who help keep charcoal/smokeDetector running in a private chat. About ensuring that you have the proper access to keep integrated with a new (soon to be announced) feature/section of the site. Anyone available sometime this week?

@Slate and I will get together next week (it is my weekend already, I work Sun-Thurs). If there are undiscovered hats that we are definitely not going to use in the future, I think that we can reveal them here. Sit tight!

@Vickel answered

Post WB blog-post is up: The Bash is over, but the season lives a little longer

@Rob And I guess that it will just stay that way. Maybe provide some more motivation for next year

@SPArcheon correct

@Wolgwang go for it. 15 possible questions, so you need to go through it at least twice to see all of them

@SPArcheon it will still be awarded behind the scenes. but you will never be able to actually put it on, or do anything other than to savor the memories of saving sparkles

@U12-Forward later today most likely, after the US wakes up

@Wolgwang confirmed that this is not the definition

Ahh, I thought you were guessing about hats that hadnt been discovered yet

@double-beep ?

@double-beep they figured out e-pic yesterday: Post a question with a title that doesn't contain the letter e

@SPArcheon Some stats will be in the forthcoming MSE wrap-up post. I didn't actually record konami codes, and dont have numbers on /shark. Didn't revoke any Defender hats (though at least one of you deserved it)

@SPArcheon we considered this for a minute, but decided that random hat criteria would be too cruel. I am laughing over gameHatId though.

@U12-Forward sorry, we'll keep you in suspense for next year

Congrats to me for just passing 50K on MSE

@double-beep (manual) fix is up. The syncing of display names between the sites and the WB service has some issues (and this is basically the only place where it matters)

@Xnero <shrugs>. Awards are based on when the scheduler ran it and we ran into some issues in the very beginning over-awarding glare-reducers that caused some timeouts. And the stats page will only show the first few folks who won it in the case of a tie.

@Wolgwang no. and gameHatId was just something that I forgot to remove from one of the js files

Final stats are up

@NikeDattani My response

@Wolgwang nope

@AnkitSharma it does involve deleting a comment as one of the actions (honestly, Cleanup and Helping heart are pretty tough to figure out and earn)

belping heart doesnt have to be for an old post. cleanup does (though you are way off for HH)

@Wolgwang no

both cleanup and helping heart relate to comments

Cleanup relates to activity on a single post. Second hint: only can be achieved on a post you made before WB started. Third hint: does relate to comments

@Wolgwang nope

@Wolgwang not even close

@cairdcoinheringaahing this is the first hat in the history of wb to go through elastic search

@double-beep only as an unfulfilled javascript var

@SPArcheon fun fact: the original trigger was going to be "no e in the title OR body". But then we found out that only one open question on Stack Overflow would have qualified in the history of the site, so we made it only about the title.

@Wolgwang yes

@Xnero no.

@Xnero incorrect. is a different char on RU. And combo of two chars for JA

@Wolgwang same idea, but for a character with similar frequency on those sites to E everywhere else

@CDJB bingo!

@Wolgwang "A year in closing" obviously should not have e-pic

@U12-Forward Really? If that were the criteria, wouldnt the hat have been earned many many more times?

@Wolgwang for the purposes of this hat, yes, they are

ie: easier than what you are suggesting here

However, I am going to stop responding to wild guesses. The definition of the correct trigger will be pretty simple to confirm

it is not really off. It is actually the best guess so far

@U12-Forward no

it is actually a pretty simple trigger

dont overthink it

It will all make sense eventually