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1:03 PM
No no no you guys are missing a point: They tried to make sure everyone can earn the hat, hence it's not voting limited to a certain UTC time. It can't be.
 
Is it related to DateTime like... 12/21 12:21:12...
 
@AndrewT. Not likely. Many have earned it by not voting at that time.
 
@AndrewT. I didn't checked the time but it would be a too big wonder when I met this condition 3 times
 
I just voted about twenty minutes ago and earned it a quarter ago.
Call me crazy, but what if this is related to how much time there is when you vote after you log in?
As in, they prolly want to encouraging voting soon.
 
I'm 99% sure everyone who vote on December 22, give or take 12 hours, gets the hat.
 
Like Sufganiyot, just easier to get.
 
December 21 is a better date (just because it's palindrome 12/21 or 21/12)
 
@AndrewT. huh, date that can be flipped? Nice!
 
user202362
1:25 PM
summer solstice is awesome!
 
user202362
@cybermonkey You seem to be kind of grim ... I was thinking, maybe we could co-write a story together & maybe you'll be happier. It's a bit like the LoTR - a few powerful forces fight to control the key - something that can be used to unlock the gate of infinity in which you will be able to discover ultimate secret of the universe and where you can get whatever you desire (although one has to find the gate of infinity first).
 
user202362
But here is the twist, the key is not an object, but a person, with multiple personality too!
 
I now believe it only needs a vote on Solstice
(and I still have to work on Greeter hat, ugh...)
and instead, I got this on my first review...
 
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user202362
It's not multiple personality really, just the key has a deep dormant memories of things happened many many years, some thousands of years ago. Those memories are triggered by certain places and events. Because those memories, the key will act drastically different.
 
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user202362
And the key serves a purpose too! That's to prevent anyone from unlocking the door of infinity. Except the key does not know until all the procedures needed to reach the gate of infinite have been carried out. But by then, all the necessary memories needed for the key to remember the mission are triggered, so the key remembers to guard the gate of infinity.
 
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1:52 PM
@AndrewT. Do teh batch reportz
 
!!/help
 
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Oo... I didn't know that..
Also, !!/allspam seems to be useful in this case too..
 
1:58 PM
!!/help allspam
 
@UNIKITTY2.0 I'm SmokeDetector, a bot that detects spam and low-quality posts on the network and posts alerts to chat. A command list is available here.
 
!!/amiprivileged
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC Yes, you are a privileged user.
 
ooh, :-)
 
!!/amiprivileged
 
1:58 PM
@ShadowWizard Yes, you are a privileged user.
 
!!/amiprivileged
 
@UNIKITTY2.0 Yes, you are a privileged user.
 
!!/amiprivileged
 
@ShadowofTheShadow No, you are not a privileged user.
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Sup socks
 
1:59 PM
:(
 
@ShadowofTheShadow BOO
 
what is privilege?
 
socks are so mistreated
 
!!/report
 
I'm going on a strike
 
1:59 PM
tp, fp
@ShadowofTheShadow Calls riot police
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC Some commands require to be privileged to avoid abuse of the commands.
 
making a hole in my sister, @UniKitty's sock
 
are they manually given, or off meta rep?
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC manually given
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC Manually given, but auto-enabled for moderators.
 
2:00 PM
I see. (ty then)
 
it's all open source, you can add yourself, in theory :)
 
@ShadowWizard Not really since we, the devs, have the merge the change :P
 
@ProgramFOX lol, why spoil the fun? ;)
envisioning poor @Quill adding himself, trying in vain to report posts
 
2:06 PM
user image
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One thing is for sure, since Flip Flop is awarded to so many users, it's drawing the most attention so far, among the secret hats.
@Quill-HATMANIAC you?
 
@nicael yeah, figured it shortly after asking :)
@nicael fixed!
 
2:19 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HOW TO PERFORM UPDATE ON LARGE TABLE by alonk on dba.stackexchange.com (@Unihedron)
 
@quill Lol. I just now realized you were the author of the bubble wrap question. You took my abuse pretty gracefully.
 
There should be a hat for acting like a grown up.
 
uh, sure
 
I'll just shut up now.
 
2:26 PM
lol
 
@JasonC we all know you can't do that
 
Why do comment votes count as a review action?
 
@animuson About the swag, is it fine for you if the answers are posted as community wiki posts? I don't really want to gain (or lose) rep for a contest
 
2:30 PM
I prefer this one
 
@SterlingArcher in VLQ review? You mean in audits, that upvoting a comment cause you to fail?
 
The use of negative space seem to be appropiate
 
@ShadowWizard also applicable in First Posts -- an upvote to a comment lets you fly by a review
Not sure if voting for a comment can cause a failure -- haven't encountered that
 
@SterlingArcher huh, guess what? It wasn't like that, and added following MSE request
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Q: New first-post review queue: "Upvoted comment" should be a valid action

ThiefMasterThe first post I saw in the new first-post review queue had three "Please post the code" comments, all without a single upvote. That's pretty noisy, ugly and not helpful to anyone So upvoting a comment should be considered a valid action that enables the "I'm done" button.

Feel free to downvote and start an opposing request ;)
 
I may make a post
How in the hell did I get a secret hat..?
:O
 
2:35 PM
@SterlingArcher you voted
we all got that hat by now :/
 
Well that's a crappy secret hat :(
I'm sticking with Thalia
 
Guess they wanted to make everyone happy, and not envy all those mega hatters with tons of secret hats :D
 
@ShadowWizard huh?
 
@ShadowWizard but.. but that's why ours and our kids generations suck D:
Participation hats >=|
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC by making a super-ultra-mega-easy secret hat, they cause lots of people to get excited: "hey, I got secret hat!"
 
2:37 PM
oh, okay
 
@ShadowWizard I was excited till I realized it was a secret hat everybody got
 
@SterlingArcher you mean spoiled? Well, blame the parents... :D
 
Now it's not special
 
Tru dat
 
My Thalia hat is more unique than this secret hat >=(
 
2:40 PM
@SterlingArcher yup, wear it proudly! But why no hat on MSE? :(
 
I have OCD issues that only let me dedicate myself to one game/forum/chat :( So I frequent the JavaScript room, SO Main is my Q&A home, and Clash of Clans is my "game" lol
I'm relatively active on Meta SO at least
 
@SterlingArcher but.. but... you're here too! :D
 
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lol jk, I like to ask my "meta se" questions here because I always end up asking dupes
 
@SterlingArcher lol but you have the "main" room on SO chat, no? Without all the fluff of the Tavern ;)
 
2:43 PM
Plus some of my favorite mods are here
I'm slowly getting out of my shell of sucking at multi-tasking. So my way of starting is my keeping this chat open in a pinned tab :)
 
I would pin my chat tabs, but they don't show the unread number count
 
That's one downside yeah
But if it's not pinned, I'll forget to open it if my browser closes and I have to open a new one
 
@SterlingArcher well, my browser remember last open tabs
(though I admit usually closing the Tavern tab before closing the browser - I don't like having tons of open tabs)
 
I'd post my tab layout but I have some exposed IP addresses I can't show lol
 
@SterlingArcher easy enough to censor those with any decent image editor, even mspaint ;)
 
2:48 PM
You can trust us ...
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I trust a fart more than I do you guys
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Oh, I'm flattered!
 
That's the most subtle pun... bless you. Bless you sir.
i.imgur.com/3sS2ePP.gifv TIL flowers are more important than babies
 
Some farts cant be trusted though.
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Believe me I know :(
 
Did... did you pin me ._.
 
2:56 PM
Haha, Ill spare.the details but I keep giggling imagining all sorts of situations that end with saying "Oh you little stinker" to a fart.
 
LMAO!!!!!!!11!!!!!!11!!!
 
@SterlingArcher It's better than "I'm an idiot" :D
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@Doorknob冰 it isn't going away just yet....
 
@Doorknob冰 you're talking to the man who failed an audit review on a question he helped close. I think that alone says it. lol
 
@Doorknob冰 I'd unpin that but I can't seem to hit the triangle on the desktop site on my phone and I still refuse to plug in my laptop.
 
2:58 PM
There are other RO's ;)
 
Therefore you're still an idiot.
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That's true regardless ;)
 
@SterlingArcher BTW check out snag.gy you can paste images and censor them there.
Sorry if that was inappropriately helpful I understand if you want to flag it.
 
@SterlingArcher did you doubt that?
 
3:01 PM
oh, just stumbled over this
 
@rene doubted pretty hard
 
Sweet memories
 
Lol
Somebody starred a helpful comment the other day in here and I was halfway to cancelling the star before I caught myself.
 
Whoa
Life hack!
 
3:03 PM
Life Hack!
 
Life Hack!
 
Lol
 
Imagine watching something and your monitor falls on your face
 
It probably always smells like pizza in there
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC yours?
 
3:05 PM
no, thankfully
 
@SmokeDetector why
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC Body - Position 2278-2292: support number
 
Heh
Smokey's getting anal
Sd fp
 
3:07 PM
@JasonC [:4358529] That message is not a report.
 
Does that work
 
you've taken action on the "why" repsonse
@SmokeDetector fp
 
@ProgramFOX Registered question as false positive.
 
3:08 PM
@ProgramFOX Maybe it would make sense to make it take action on the previous report? I imagine sd why -> action is reasonable.
 
On mobile where you can't reply easily
 
SD stands for Smart Detector? You failed.
 
What's happening...
 
status-outta-power
 
3:09 PM
@JasonC Yes, but sd why -> sd del to delete the 'why' response is reasonable too. Alternative to replying: sd - fp, which skips the most recent message and FPs the second most recent message.
 
Oh cool
 
@ShadowWizard Where
 
What if exclusively report actions applied to the most recent report? So del kills the why but FP does the report. Or is that weird.
 
Abby T. Miller on January 3, 2014
Another holiday season has drawn to a close. We’ve had three glorious weeks with our beloved hats. Now as we pack away the tinsel and the party horns, it’s time to put the hats back in their boxes for another year. Before we move on to 2014 with our bare heads (and our full hearts), let’s take a few moments to reminisce.
 
3:11 PM
And, see the comments here
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A: Will the secret of the secret hats be revealed after the end of Winter Bash?

abby hairboatMaybe... If you're nice to us. And... here it is!

 
@JasonC I think that would be kinda confusing: it's easier to understand if all commands just apply to the latest message.
 
3:23 PM
Yeah
@ProgramFOX Can you add a command that applies a random action to a random report?
 
can you add a command that orders pizza
 
Maybe also one that makes smokey leave a snarky comment on the reported post.
 
> This post has been reported. Beep.
 
3:43 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in answer, repeating characters in answer: How to dial Ethernet(pppoe) connection using windows API? by user5704029 on stackoverflow.com
 
@JasonC Uh, no.
 
!!/random
 
!!/whoami
 
@Quill-HATMANIAC My id for this room is 266345
 
!!/coffee for everyone
 
3:51 PM
@ShadowWizard brews coffee for @ShadowWizard
 
sd Thanks!
 
4:05 PM
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[ SmokeDetector ] Few unique characters in body, repeating characters in body: How to count apparition of words and sort them by JohnK on stackoverflow.com
 
4:37 PM
Should I have been more direct with this new user?
in Academia on The Stack Exchange Network Chat, 37 mins ago, by ffahim
EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN FROM U@AaronHall
 
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=566597674 We should all appreciate this newly greenlit game
 
Taken at face value, he's very appreciative of me, but the all caps reflects poorly on him.
@vaultah hi, what's up?
 
Hi, Aaron.
 
4:57 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keyword in body, pattern-matching website in body: Best Brain Enhancing Tips by Ferrierain on workplace.stackexchange.com
 
Today's xkcd comic (Watson Medical Algorithm):
 
Wow it's huge
 
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5:37 PM
@Eumel Sorry, that guess does not qualify for Archimedes.
@ShadowWizard You keep saying this, but it's not true.
 
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5:58 PM
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: PLEASE HELP! CHROMEBOOK TERMINAL PROBLEM! by Ethan Paul on unix.stackexchange.com
 
6:13 PM
@Pops does it not qualify because its wrong or other reasons?
 
Because it's wrong. I keep struggling to find a perfect phrasing... sometimes people are just way off, other times they're halfway right but missing a piece, other times they have all the right triggers but also include some extra rules that don't exist in the real trigger, and I wanted to have one single "no" reply I could use for all of them.
 
Donna Choi on December 21, 2015
We believe that all programmers need and deserve jobs they love. Last week, we added a Jobs tab to Stack Overflow in order to help you do just that.
 
this hat is the best to date
 
Classy.
Almost as good as mine.
 
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6:27 PM
sd k
 
k as in korrect?
 
k as in tpu-
!!/help
 
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Thermoplastic polyurethane?
 
True positive, blacklist user.
 
6:29 PM
true positive, user
ok, then
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body: php unexepted end of file by Guy Sharony on stackoverflow.com
 
sd why
 
@bjb568isakat [:4359832] Body - Position 2122-2137: guyideas.esy.es
 
1. [:4359838] <unrecognized command>
2. [:4359835] That message is not a report.
 
6:32 PM
Agh
@SmokeDetector f
 
6:51 PM
Hi, how can I get archimedes hat? I know how to get Flip Flap, do i have to post how to somewhere and then I get the archimedes automatically?
 
@AleOtero93 No.
 
manual. Also, to the first discoverer only.
So you're SOL
 
[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: HELP WITH HTC DESIRE 626S PLEASE by Hector Saucedo Lozano on android.stackexchange.com (@AndrewT.)
 
So only a few people will get that hat
 
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A: Why didn't (or did) I or some other user get a hat although the requirements were (or weren't) fulfilled?

balphaLeeway on date-based hats Unless the requirement mentions a specific timezone, hats that are date-based are often awarded for 14 hours before and 12 hours after the specified date in UTC, to accomodate people everywhere in the world. This means you can earn such a hat even though for you it's no...

> Unless the requirement mentions a specific timezone, hats that are date-based are often awarded for 14 hours before and 12 hours after the specified date in UTC
 
6:55 PM
in UTC
 
Why 14?
 
@Pops so... what does it mean?
 
UTC+14:00 is an identifier for a +14 hour time offset from UTC. This is the highest time zone, meaning that areas in this zone are the first to see a new day, and therefore the first to celebrate a New Year. UTC+14 stretches as far as 30° east of the 180° longitude line and creates a large fold in the International Date Line. == As standard time (all year round) == === Oceania === Kiribati Line Islands - including Kiritimati (Christmas Island) The IANA time zone database zone identifier is Pacific/Kiritimati. == As daylight saving time (Southern Hemisphere summer) == === Oceania ===...
 
I got the hat for December 18 in December 17, 12:00 AM in my local time, which is UTC+2
So this falls under "14 hours before"
I thought it's simple as that.
Actually, looks like it's exactly the 14 before.
 
so... who implemented that script that records the time a hat was awarded?
 
6:59 PM
Anyway.... since I no longer have any idea what's going on with times, will keep quiet about it.
 
Basically, if you have to do X on date Y, then you can do X when it is date Y in your time zone, or date Y in the UTC+14 time zone, or date Y in the UTC-12 time zone, or anywhere in between.
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body: How are unsecured credit cards processed? by Chrischelle Lewis on mathoverflow.net
 
Thanks for the hints, @Pops. I didn't understand the last one until just now. Great work!
 
> It's actually just one dress hat, which will become more obvious in better lighting.
I swear to god if this is a blue/gold dress hint I will flip out.
 
7:15 PM
@SterlingArcher Hi. I play coc too...
So... hi...
 
Hi!
Sup?
 
Working -- only one in my entire office building. But getting stuff done. Yourself?
 
Hey @Pops, just saw your hints. I now (think I) know the rule for one of them but I've no idea which have been guessed and confirmed already. What do I do, just blurt it out in here?
 
Umm.. doing a clan war,
 
7:16 PM
Nice, how many war wins y'all got?
 
umm.. actually I started a week ago xD
 
@berserk E-mailing is preferred (either pops@ or team@) so that other people still have a chance to get Archimedes for the same guess.
 
Its my 2nd war
 
@Pops gotcha. Thanks.
 
7:18 PM
@berserk your clan only has 2 wins total, or you've only been in 2 wars yourself?
 
@SterlingArcher Our clan has 7 war wins.
Guess very low.
Its GODS OF OLYMPUS.
How many wins do you have?
 
AAAAAAAHHHH
bjb568 is a kat!!
 
[ SmokeDetector ] Blacklisted website in body: How are unsecured credit cards processed? by user162505 on apple.stackexchange.com
 
@berserk lol.. so my clan has 221 war wins
 
lol
@SterlingArcher my clan won't even appear on searching its full name :p
 
7:27 PM
Yeah we're kinda really good
 
There are so many clans with same name.
 
haha we're Elite four, just append a clan lvl 8 to the search and you'll see us. I'm "The Demonata"
I'm the 2nd best attacker in the clan, behind my leader
 
@Unihedron AAAAAAAAAHHH
 
@SterlingArcher Your clan name is "clan lvl 8"?
 
Elite four is our name, use the advance search options to filter for lvl 8 clans
 
7:31 PM
oh
How many members total?
There are 2 clans with same name.
F small?
 
lower cased f
We're the real one with more wins lol
 
ur area looks all demolished lol
35 lvl Barba king :0
You don't have Grand Warden
?
 
I'm not a th11
I haven't logged in yet today -- I'm at work playing on my second account lol
 
lol
I am just th4 atm xD
Upgrading to th5, will be done in one day.
 
Ah ok I have a th10 and a th7
Make sure you max out 100%
Don't rush town halls!
 
7:37 PM
oh, you mean upgrade all buildings first?
 
Am I still in the Tavern?
 
@berserk yah
@no rene
um
shit
I'm not fixing that, i'm gonna go vape though
 
@SterlingArcher Ok, thanks for the advice.
 
@SterlingArcher I can live with that ;)
 
7:55 PM
The blue Flip Flop hat is awarded if you comment back and forth with the same user o couple of times. I've done this on SP.SE and Meta.SE and have the blue Flip Flop on both sites.
 
!!!
 
25:20 day plan going well, will wake up at 15:10 tomorrow.
 
@BennySkogberg nope, that's not it
 
Nice hat, booby, it really goes well with your feet.
Maybe I not eat today.
Instead me eat ground bird!
 
8:02 PM
@bluefeet And while I was posting, I got the one on UX.SE too where I haven''t flip-floped comments :-)
 
@bjb568isakat did you forget how to english during winterbash?
 
Nah, I spent all me inglés durante the essay I wrote last night.
 
I think he already forgot that before Winterbash...
 
nooo bjb's english tank is drying up
at this rate they'll make even less sense
 
An amphibious vehicle (or simply amphibian), is a vehicle that is a means of transport, viable on land as well as on (or under) water. Amphibious vehicles include amphibious bicycles, ATVs, cars, buses, trucks, military vehicles, and hovercraft. Classic landing craft are not amphibious vehicles as they do not offer any real land transportation at all, although they are part of amphibious assault. Ground effect vehicles, such as Ekranoplans, will likely crash on any but the flattest of landmasses so are also not considered to be amphibious vehicles. == General technical notes == Apart from the...
 
8:14 PM
@Unihedron they'll?
 
@Unihedron it'll
@hichris123 singular they'll
But @BJB is such an animal!
 
:D
so is ur mom
 
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@bjb568isakat No, I can assure you we're all molecules here.
 
8:33 PM
@Ϻ.Λ.Ʀ. bjb is a he...
 
@hichris123 Yeah I know.
 
9:01 PM
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Luke BSay I have a variable called var slideimages = new Array() How do I select the variable to do something like $('var').fadeIn(500); $('var').fadeOut(500); The var is what I mentioned at the top

Anybody wanna see a trainwreck?
 
9:14 PM
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