Sugarcube Corner

> Although the word "on" is sometimes translated as "syllable," one on is counted for a short syllable, two for an elongated vowel, diphthong, or doubled consonant, and one for an "n" at the end of a syllable.

Shadow Wizard

11:05 AM

@Derpy yup, that's true. Well, no new secret hats are showing so far, but who knows... :)

The hardest hat to guess ever, IMO, was Don Draper. Remember that one, @Derpy?

I guessed it about hour before WB was over, it was too late...

Derpy

A: I have a Secret Hat

Secret hats are secret. Public knowledge is not secret. Therefore, secret hats are not public knowledge. Shhhhh. I've been asked to edit this post to explain what secrets I was talking about. So, here goes. Secrets in this answer! I'm going to go ahead and reveal 'em. Fredley originally ad...

^ this is what I have in my mind. Treasure hunts. Not "formula interpolations".

anyway... 2013 had 10 secret hats?

2014 had... 8?

2015... I fear has just 6.

Shadow Wizard

So 2020 will have -2? ;)

Derpy

@ShadowWizard possible.

Quill - HAT MANIAC

Q: How can I spot the Winterbash related mischief going on?

I've noticed some strange behaviour going on since Winterbash has started, how can I spot this behaviour before it turns into a serious issue? How is this behaviour related to hats?

Derpy

11:21 AM

you had Sou Wukong / Son Goku replaced by onion.

Quill - HAT MANIAC

what's the actual title

Derpy

Quill - HAT MANIAC

somebody downvoted the answer to that above question o_O

or removed the vote

Eran

Did you post that question trying to achieve some hat[s]? :) which one[s]?

Quill - HAT MANIAC

Just thought It'd be good

I doubt there's a CM hat

Eran

11:30 AM

The question is +3-1, the answer is +3-2. I didn't vote

Quill - HAT MANIAC

weird

oh hey does getting one downvote make it so you can't get the Up hat on any site

for example I have 5+ ups on MSE, will that affect it?

Eran

No. I got Up on SO last night and had some down votes on meta SE

Quill - HAT MANIAC

okay coolio

Eran

Though not getting any down votes on a meta site should be hard to achieve.

Quill - HAT MANIAC

I suppose so lol

ハットだけ
問題ない
見つけないか

Reminds me why I'm only N5~N4

Derpy

11:42 AM

hahahahahahahahahaha

winterbash2015.stackexchange.com/leaderboard/…

I am #3!

With an incredible grand total of 3 hats!

Sometime, I would love SharePoint was just shut down and all the content merged with the main SE site.

Derpy

12:22 PM

Well, let's switch to something more interesting.

Call me if you need me, for now I am reading an analysis on "Lum: the Forever" alternate interpretations.

Quill - HAT MANIAC

sure no worries :-)

Eran

I have a new theory regarding Onion Knight. To test it, we should find a question with 500 views that hadn't awarded that hat to its OP yet, and give that question 5 new upvotes.

Shadow Wizard

I doubt views are related to hats, but who knows...

Quill - HAT MANIAC

good luck finding that too

you'd probably be better off asking an interesting skeptics question or something

Shadow Wizard

My current theory is:
1. Question is posted
2. Answer is posted
3. Answer gets to +5
4. Question gets to +5
Hat!

Eran

12:29 PM

It's the only explanation that makes sense to me. The users who got this hat got it for a wide range of upvotes, so it can't be upvotes alone. I think the trigger may be when the question reaches a certain number of views, at which point a few new upvotes will bring the hat. This explains why hot questions have a better chance of getting this hat.

Derpy

@Eran If it is meant to be a reference to the FF Onion Knight, it must be votes in a short time range. That class is know for begin the one with the highest level stat growth.

Eran

@derpy perhaps the new votes must arrive within a short time period. That's a good point.

@ShadowWizard That theory doesn't work in the case of my Secret Hats question. It had over 10 votes and an answer of over 10 votes long before I got the hat.

Shadow Wizard

@Eran you got Onion Knight?? What question?

Steals the hat from @Eran ;)

self slap - of course the MSE question itself

OK, guess you're right, it got something to do with timing as well, maybe this?

4 upvotes in 1 minute

Derpy

12:51 PM

@ShadowWizard something like that yes. Which is again a smack in the face to all the low-traffic sites.

Eran

That's not 4 upvotes in 1 minute. If you expand it, you'll see that the +40 contains multiple votes between 01:49 and 23:41 that generated +40 rep. And those are the votes for my answer, not the question.

Shadow Wizard

@Derpy true

@Eran oh, didn't see option to expand. Oh well... another theory thrown to trash can. :)

Derpy

@Eran It is the character that grows, so maybe it is something that takes in account all the rep gained by the user in a time range.

The fact that the rep should be originated from post made during WB would stop Skett from automagically getting it.

Eran

@Derpy If it was just rep, I would have probably gotten in on SO too (where all my rep yesterday was for answers). I think it must be related to questions only and to the question views.

Derpy

1:07 PM

well, each case is something impossible to get for me, so I will pass.