Winter Bash 2018 is coming up fast, so I thought it would be a good idea to start a discussion on how we'd like to handle things this year. It seemed like it went well last year, and it was fun to be able to offer a prize. TLG is able to support this event with up to €500 EUR in prizes shipped t...

I have not seen anything about Winter Bash starting yet and Hanukkah has started as it is a bit early this year. Are we doing hats this year?

It's that time of year again. Last year, we participated and enjoyed it. Hopefully, this will be as fun as previous years. For those that don't remember, users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges). Certain actions would trigger the user receiving a ...

Here we go again the Winter Bash is here and the hats are listed below. The list has the same format 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. Only edit the secret hat answer with definitiv...

2018年の終わりが Stack Exchange にも近づいています…つまり…帽子の季節です！サイトを利用するともらえる素敵な帽子をかぶって、年越しを暖かく楽しく過ごしましょう。帽子は1月2日には回収されてしま‌​‌​います。お早目に！ https://winterbash2018.stackexchange.com/ 毎年 Stack Exchange では、年末に Winter Bash というイベントが開催されます。 Winter Bash では特定の条件を満たすことで帽子を手に入れることができます。手に入れた帽子は、期間限定で被ることもできます！ パ...

The criteria for the Team Player hat states: visit the Stack Overflow for Teams landing page at stackoverflow.com/teams I've visited the page 30 min ago, scrolled up and down and still haven't gotten the hat. Is there a bug relating to the hat, if not, how does it get triggered?

I've received the Silencium hat on a question with no answers for 15 min. Pretty sure it shouldn't be the case: ask a question that gets no answers within a week of being posted

This year's Winter Bash got us great hat challenges but also a very nice tool for knitting on the main site. Is there a challenge related to this knitting tool? Here is mine and it would be amazing if you guys could share yours too.

Happy holidays everyone! Bricks Stack Exchange is once again participating in the Winter Bash celebration with the rest of the Stack Exchange network! While this is a "just for fun" activity, there are also a few different prizes available this year. The user with the most hats will win 10263...

This is the thread where we'll be tracking and voting on submissions for the 2018 Winter Bash building competition. This year, we're asking you to recreate a scene from a holiday song. This can be any song you like, just be creative and try to capture the theme of the holiday season. Here's an e...

Over the past few years, RPG.SE has celebrated surviving the chaos of Hatmas by posting photo albums to the meta. Previous years: The Hatmas Interdimensional Breach 2017 Photo Album Hatocalypse 2016 Survivors' Photo Album The Winterbash 2015 Hatmas “Photo” Album (& maybe embarrassing yearbook)...

curiosity prompted by being a minority that lives in the southern hemisphere. are we forgotten, overlooked, ignored or simply hated by those in the temperate latitudes of the north who would actually consider 'now' to be winter ;-)

今年(2018)のWinter Bashは、メインサイトで編み物をモチーフとしたお絵かきができるようです。 面白い作品があれば、ぜひこの質問への回答でシェアしてみてください。 参考： Winter Bash 2018 Knitting - Stack Exchange Meta

Shamelessly ripping off Monica Cellio's post on The Workplace Meta. The HNQ list consists of hot questions from around the network of Stack Exchange sites. It's visible on the Stack Exchange front page and on the right column of other sites. If a question makes the list, it generates quite a lo...

There are currently 55 questions tagged psychology Psychological studies based on infant, toddler, and adolescent behavior or parenting techniques and disciplinary action. Appropriate questions should relate to a study or finding in a psychological study or should deal with wanting informatio...

When (re-)tagging questions, I sometimes have a hard time finding appropriate tags and wonder if the existing ones are sufficient. Hence I want to discuss two possible tags that might come in very handy. Also feel free to suggest better names for the tags, they are not set in stone. in-loco-pa...

I have a question about my Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Stack Exchange post: What type of car has the brightest headlights? Can this please be reopened? I changed the post to focus on the car, and not rentals.

Question: Oil pan and timing cover gaskets replacement worth it? It's asking whether a replacement on his specific car is worth it, given mileage and type. It seems a bit opinion-based to me, and the current answer is just a "yes, it's worth it; your car can last quite a while longer." On the ...

Why questions that have been answered by me or other people are being bumped by 'community'. I see a lot of questions that have been answered correctly, just the person asking the question didn't marked it as solved. Answers given to the questions cover everything there is nothing else to be said.

Case in point being downgrading emacs which sounds to me like a question about the Fedora distribution of GNU/Linux -- but that may well be of interest to other Emacs users who run Fedora. We do have existing tags for particular OSs. As well as the expected [microsoft-windows] and [osx] I can s...

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Is there a new (e.g. grayish) background highlighting for code now? I get the impression that there is and that syntax highlighting does not stand out as well against it as it stood out before. I mean what you get by doing, say, this: <!-- language: lang-el -->

Updates: The link has been corrected to "Stack Exchange" with the proper syntax (4 Dec.) The issue on GitHub was closed by w0rp, stating that no discussion was had (4 Dec.) Related: How much should we indulge questions about plugins? TL;DR I have some concerns about a recent commit I saw o...

I read here that the community decided over three years ago on restricting the subject-mater material. There were no dissenting views. Moreover, the Area51 discussions also lack any dissenting views from the now dominant opinion. The FAQ has only this to say, Please limit your questions to sp...

In answers such as this and this I mention signals on chip pins and buses. Some of these signals are "active low," which are traditionally written with a overbar over the signal name. I'd like to be able to do that here. Currently the best alternative convention supported here (which I'm using w...

When asking questions on Stackexchange, I find it appropriate to link to any sources. This presents a problem for Reddit, because linking to a Reddit post that's appropriate now may become sexual or even pornographic in a few months from now. Would it be better to just take a screenshot?

There are more and more gaming related questions poping up. I see here a very substantial gap between our focus on retroCOMPUTING with an emphasis on computers and technology, versus retroGAMING as being about (old) games and their consoles. How to handle this?

Are questions seeking links to resources ever on-topic? To give an example, I was once active on GEnie and want to know whether any of the forums ("Round tables") and software archives have been preserved. Would such a question be on-topic?

When voting to close a question as off-topic, selecting "This question belongs on another site in the Stack Exchange network" gives only "retrocomputing.meta.stackexchange.com" as an option. Why is this?

I'm a little disappointed right now that a completely subjective and opinion-based list-question has not been closed already. On the contrary, it has become popular enough to be protected: Simplest system to create an emulator for Opinion-based questions are already off-topic per the standard he...

This is not realy a meta question and I wouldn't mind if it get deleted in a few days. I just have the urge to ventilate this again: Thanks to all the editors easing the way I mangle the English language. It may not look like it, but I realy apreciate all the help that is given. Members like L...

I've found an answer to a question that was closed as being off-topic. Since new answers aren't possible I left a comment on that question stating what I'd found. To see the comment though you'd have to click on the 'show all comments' link which means that future readers of that question might...

Sorry if this has already been answered. I haven't really figured out stackexchange yet. But what time period is retro computing? From the beginning to the 80s? 90s? Early 2000s?

According to the comment box: Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid answering questions in comments. Comments are for: Asking for more information about a question's topic Helping to narrow the scope of a question or otherwise make it better for the site ...

Background and motivation So, I saw this question on a edited video of an interaction between journalist Jim Acosta and a White House intern: Was the video Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted out against Jim Acosta altered? I had originally added a couple comments pointing OP to a third-party foren...

I made an answer this morning to "Does 'The Fossil Record' Support Evolution?" Moderator @Oddthinking removed my answer, citing lack of references and a primarily theoretical core argument. This is perfectly sensible, and I responded by providing references. Following my addition of references...

For example, this answer makes the following statement: What is true is that [vaccine effectiveness] in people aged 65 or older is 9%, with a 95% confidence interval that spans from -84% to 55%. They suggest interpreting these results with caution. I want to ask a question like "What does i...

Related questions: Should there be stronger notability criteria for claims about living people? and Claims involving personal information about notable people and Victims of crime In Did a man get heckled for dressing up as a Nazi—and dressing up his son as Adolf Hitler—at a local Halloween even...

Again the "no theoretical answers" rule has deleted a — in my opinion — very valid answer. (See previous request to change from "theory" to "speculation"). Also I object to that the post was immediately deleted without any comment from moderators to improve the question. I am fed up with that r...

I'd like to know: Why do people repeat certain typing mistakes? I'm from Lebanon, the "Lebanese" way of saying yes is "eh", people keep making the same mistake, typing "rh", never ever "wh", I wonder why and there's stats on that subject. Would my question be on topic?

As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing. If you can't see it right now, that's by design! This is a very early test implementation of your d...

A recent question used the tag miracle for a claim that a religious person improbably escaped from a maximum security prison. Based on the links the question provides, it seems that the event is indeed described as a miracle, or at least "miraculous", by various religious sources. In the comment...

Say a person is accused of murder. Say we doubt he really did it. Is that on topic? It's notable. Definitely. It's answerable based on evidence. So it seems like it's a model question. It's on topic. Reasonable numbers of people is Some answers here says it's on topic. Not quite clear Ar...

I have cast an erroneous vote on a question but cannot rectify my mistake. The tooltip says my vote is "locked in" and I can only change my vote, when the question is edited. Why ? Can I do something about this myself ? Otherwise, can a moderator help ? I don't want to unduly influence the vote...

Consider the situation: A notable source posts an article including an incredible claim. Someone links to the source as a notable claim, asking a question on Skeptics. At some point in the future, the original source removes the claim from the article. Does that retroactively make the claim o...

As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing. If you can't see it right now, that's by design! This is a very early test implementation of your d...

If, based on encountering new information, or simply based on a re-thinking of the problem, or based on an actual change in circumstances (e.g. new regulations passed), I wish to completely replace an answer (written by me) with entirely different content, is it better to delete the old one and a...

Would you avoid downvoting an answer with a factual error, especially one that is central to the answer? Is it considered "rude" or something? Sure one can leave a comment noting the problem with the answer, but if you are noting that there is a key factual problem, why would you not also downv...

A question I asked about the yoke force necessary to counteract whatever may drive a B737 MAX 8 into the ground was put on hold as OT. During a mod interaction references to flight JT610 (which obviously inspires the question) were removed, and the mod canceled a close vote they had apparently ca...

I recently asked Why are the cabin chimes one semitone lower on the Boeing 747-400 than on other aircraft? on the main site. It was later deemed to be primarily based on opinions, but it's not. I recently edited the question to clarify why it's not primarily based on opinions, but it was reviewe...

In this question, the user is asking about how/where to purchase a part. This is a specific violation of the network rules What topics can I ask about here? If [your question is] not about… Resource location. Where to buy a specific part, "Which headset is the best?", Where can I...

I would like to propose that the "Off Topic" closure flag reasons be updated to include a 3rd option: "Aviation related, but inappropriate topic as defined in the off-topic section of the help center." When initially selecting the Off Topic reason, there is a caveat that the question is o...

steps to reproduce the bug click "edit" on Can anyone identify this object? try adding 1 tag (as an edit suggestion) result error message: "edits must be at least 6 characters" (red rectangle around composition window) suspected source of the bug My hunch is that the bug occurs when questi...

There were six questions tagged "definition". In most cases, it was either being used as a synonym of "terminology" or its only semantic content was "I'm asking about the definition of something or other", which doesn't make sense as a tag. (It's a type of question, rather than a subject.) I've ...

For example, suppose I have a doubt regarding how Paxos works or about the definition of FIFO broadcasts. Is this website the most suited for asking this kind of questions? For example, would this or this questions have been (more) appropriately asked on this CS website? If not, which is the mos...

I found three sites with the same tag graphical-model(s). They are Data Science, Cross Validated and this site. The other two sites contain graphical-model, but CS contains graphical-models. I feel that it would be better to rename it. So that people can find this site easily from searching t...

How should we respond to questions from unregistered users? Should we treat them differently from questions from registered users? For example: Should we post comments encouraging users to register? Is it OK to suggest to posters that they might be more likely to get answers if they register, ...

A little while ago someone asked (now deleted, but link still here: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/314572/advice-on-how-i-can-i-publish-my-solution-of-the-riemann-hypothesis?noredirect=1#comment784775_314572), somewhat pretentiously, how they can publish their proof of a 'famous conjecture in...

I can’t login the ios app, how to fix this problem? Neither the overflow nor the exchange.

I'm confused why MO community forbids me many times to ask question however the last question that I have posted wasn't negative , Really this method of dealing is discouraging me and discourage all OP there who they are interesting to do research, Now my question is: What I should do for contin...

I could be hypocritical and not specify the specific case that induced this question. But actually I am after a golden badge :D Its description says this: Ask a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintain a positive question record. What exactly does "well-received" mean here...

It's not permitted to edit a self-deleted question. To do so, one must first undelete it. Following a number of Collatz-related questions I lost my question asking rights the moment I undeleted my self-deleted question in order to copy the post content, before deleting it again myself. Whether...

To my understanding, this answer: directly answer the question, with examples in math has foundation in cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics 3 downvotes affirm that it misses an important point, but I can't see where. Why do you feel it's incorrect or doesn't make sense? A reason...

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Typically, Stack Exchange sites have the restriction that only users with at least 5 reputation points on the main site can post on meta. In this regard, MathOverflow is different. (It is listed also in the network-wide FAQ among exceptions: Reputation requirements compared, current revision.) A...

The comments on the OP for the following question are disconcerting: Why is Voevodsky's motivic homotopy theory 'the right' approach? From what I can gather, the OP must have had something like a confederate jack, swastika, or some other such thing. Two different users comment on it, including a...

I currently got a downvote for my question Making a Graph Eulerian for Applying TSP Heuristics, but unfortunately the downvoter didn't leave a comment explaining what the motivation was, thus depriving me the chance to address the issue(s). My assumption is that downvoters are hesitant to leav...

Why it says in my profile I have not asked any questions when I have. I go under questions and sometimes I find it and sometimes I don't. Seems to be no sense in navigating this site. Incorrect information in my profile.

This question comes from this list of edits: https://mathoverflow.net/posts/86827/revisions An old answer included a link to a now-deprecated website (which has been taken over by a porn website); a proposed edit simply removed the deprecated website. I thought it would be better to keep the nam...

Prof. William Thurston passed away on Aug. 21, 2012. His MO profile page gives Feb. 22, 2012 as the date of his last log-in. Who is the person who wrote the year of his death in his profile page? Was it one of the moderators? Was this done on request of the family (or of Cornell University), or w...

Suppose I want to refer some person X in comments, I write @X. Suppose the name of that person is not in English script, it is not clear how to refer that person. Some times it comes automatically when I write @ and some times it does not. In chat, there is an option saying "reply to this messa...

Why am I not getting notification for comments to some answer to my question in inbox? Marc Hoyois’s last comment to my question $2$-fiber product is a scheme then map of stacks is representable did not get notified in my inbox. On top right of the page, there is an icon after my account pictu...

A long time ago, the question What are some examples of colorful language in serious mathematics papers? was closed because someone posted a copy of Spencer Bloch's review of Milne's Étale Cohomology. It was unfair at the time to have closed the entire question, and as time has gone by, I've b...

Mine appears to be stuck at 2321 -- even though my answer here keeps getting upvoted: What definitions were crucial to further understanding?

If you're like me, you might have been surprised to learn from this meta post that StackExchange is in the process of completely revamping the infrastructure underlying all of its websites to make them more uniform, and that MO is currently in beta for the new system (see that post for informatio...

The new design theme introduced for MO here is now live. Several issues with the new theme were raised in that discussion. I'd like to discuss one of them, which is sort of buried in my answer and David Roberts' comment to the answer. (My understanding from this post is that this is StackExchan...

MathOverflow isn't some experiment in website design. I knew where everything was and what colour it was meant to be. The tabs are now small and harder to click on. The colours are different shades of white. I don't know where people got the idea that MathOverflow was just another StackExchang...

MathOverflow is almost ten years old now. Soon (if not already) the webpage will be old enough that some of the users may not have memories of the internet before MO. What were favorite (internet based, say) substitutes for MO before 2009 of current users?

Мир полон удивительных традиций. Взять хотя бы Ла Томати́на, Апельсиновые сражения, Обезьяний пир или Куперсхилдскую сырную гонку. Видя эти примеры неиссякаемого человеческого творчества, мы не смогли остаться в стороне и создали свой праздник — Сезон шляп! В этом году мы все вместе постараемс...

世界には沢山の恒例行事があります。例えば、トマトやオレンジ を投げるフェスティバルや、お猿のビュッフェ、そしてチーズ転がし祭り。このような創造性が溢れる行事の中、スタック・オーバーフローにも毎年恒例のイベントがあります。そう、Winter Bash です！ 今年は Winter Bash 7年目の帽子への愛を記念して、ユーザーのみなさんと一緒に 一本の毛糸のようにつながることを試みたいと思います。今年は本物の毛糸を無駄にせずにクリエイティブになる方法を追加しました。Winter Bash の開催期間は2018年12月12日から2019年1月1日までです！Winter Bash の参...

Why I see missing space between secret hats: OS: Ubuntu Browser: Chromium

How can I get secret hats in winter bash 2018? What are the secrets hats available in winter bash 2018?

I found something to knitting. What is it exactly? What we can do with it?

Here is a list of the 'etymology' for the Winter Bash 2017 hats. Everything about the naming (whether related to Stack Exchange mechanics, memes or anything else that isn't obvious to most readers) can be found here. For pictures and a list of criteria, see Winter Bash 2018 Hat list instead. The...

Checking the description of the Member of The Hand hat, it says: post a question on answer on meta or on the main site that appears with the New Contributor indicatior and gets a score of 3 It looks to me that it contains a typo and it should be post a question or answer on meta ... A...

On the mobile site there is no Snowflake to access the Winter Bash 2018.   Even accessing the Menu is fruitless, still no Snowflake:   Only by using the Full Site (on Mobile) is one able to see the Snowflake: The Winter Bash would be better promoted if the feature wasn't hidden f...

I don't like that there are a lot of hats which I cannot get since I'm not a fresh user or that I already own the guru badge. Also the team hat seems to be only catchable if you are part of a payed team. Pay to win. Great! That makes no fun.

When I create a boundary such as: switch to fill mode: and click inside the boundary, the entire screen is filled: I expected only the area inside the boundary to be filled. If I click outside the boundary, I get the same result. If that's the intended functionality, it's not very use...

Everytime I try to opt-out, I get this error message: This is what I get in the console: And it responds with the following: I tried, again and again and again. This happens accross the whole StackOverflow (StackExchange?) network.

The physicists have done it again! They know no limits in meddling with the fabric of reality, and now the large hatron collider has exploded and there are hats everywhere. How irresponsible! Well, let's take some photos while we're here. Every Hatmas, we wear and see fun and dapper combinati...

The tags graphs and graph-theory seem to cover much of the same ground. Should we merge them?

As you may have noticed, the top bar on this site (and every other Stack Exchange site) has a new icon button that looks like an ice crystal. This button is available for the duration of Winter Bash, a yearly event during which you can earn "hats" by participating in the site. Below are a few e...

Sometimes I spend considerable amount of time placing a hat I just received, and wear it. Then I get a new hat, and yet again, spend time to place it correctly. Wearing it cause the previous hat I wore to be gone forever, without any way to go back to it other than repeat my steps again. It wou...

I've not been in the SO community for very long, so I don't know if this is expected behaviour or not, but I have just unlocked my first 2 hats, and I have been playing around with moving them, but I have found that they appear behind my avatar, making them somewhat invisible. (See my avatar). I...

¿Habéis visto un nuevo icono copo de nieve en la parte superior de la barra de usuario? ¡Se trata del Winter Bash 2018! Yo me acabo de dar cuenta de que estaba. ¿Me he perdido alguna notificación? Tenemos desde hoy, 12 de diciembre de 2018, hasta el 1 de enero de 2019 para conseguir estos sombr...

I recently received Retro Fan Hat and the description does not disclose about why I earned that hat? To my surprise it turned out to be actually some kind of shades rather than a hat, although they are looking good. It just says its a secret. Is it a secret between StackOverflow and the HA...

My Facebook picture got de-synchronized after I activated e-mail login and I have never updated it (and I don't have a profile picture). With the new winter bash hat-over-picture feature I'm experiencing this bug (please ignore the dark theme): As you see, the hat stacks over the rep area! (Fi...