The flip flop hat is a reference to that "what color is this dress" old internet meme
white with gold stripes or blue with black ones.
I just earned Flip Flop.
@ShadowWizard, try this one:
in rapid sequence, downvote a question, then upvote a question, then downvote another
may be enough to stop at two.
If that does not work, then it must be the other thing I did:
go to the sandbox, and rapidly play with the up and down vote buttons on one of the community wiki answer, flipping it up and down.... Leave no vote in the end, it may be important.
@ShadowWizard you have the hat. Down - up - down right?
Then... I have a confession. I did the opposite. And got the white hat instead.
@pops - since it seem you only need to vote on the 22 to get the Flip Flop hat (21 where I live, but it is the usual utc problem), I am switching to determine the color rule: for now, my research shows that users that voted Questions got white, and users who voted on Answers got blue.
I wonder... should I try and compete on that Swag contest?
I did once, and the results weren't great. Also, I remember that someone pointed out that my post was above the length limit, so it is not worth to try and weave a story.
@Derpy well, my idea isn't successful so far, but I do have plan B. Will be long, but hopefully not too long. Chances of success are still low but who knows. Don't be afraid to try too! :)
@ShadowWizard it relates to hats, boredom, the fact that the SE staff still manages to delete the old site every year and would probably earn me very little rep with a lot of work.
Anyway, each year I'm amazed at the amount of hats I get without even trying. This year for example I went hunting for one single hat, all the rest are result of my day-to-day activity.
I started a room for that, but realized three things: 1. I don't have time to do it right 2. I can't really judge what's worthy to keep 3. I don't have enough motivation
@ShadowWizard She did? I don't remember. I remember the SO closed/deleted post, but not much more. I would not be surprised if someone tried and failed too.
Every year, there are beautiful fantastic displays with hats and avatars. We see others with avatars we love, or we get that perfect dapper combination and enjoy it to bits.
They get boxed up and disappear forever at the end of Winterbash. But they don't have to be! Let's preserve some of it, at...
@Derpy SO is a harsh place... so naturally (for me, at least) long time users who have to deal with the place every day, are also more harsh than usual
Of course not everyone, it's just a very broad observation
Back to hats! New idea about Flip Flop color... suppose user A got the Flip Flop, then user B, on same site. So A will have blue and B will have white, then when the next user will get the hat, it will be blue again. Meaning not random, if you know who got the last hat in a site, you'll know what color you will get.
Too bad there are no time stamps for when each hat was awarded, like badges have.
While yodeling to myself quietly in our warehouse today, a pallet full of mugs came crashing down on my head, and gave me a concussion idea. First, it's very unlucky to go yodeling around on a skate board in a dark warehouse, and second, we could really use a short creative writing contest.
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