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user315433

!!/hats

SmokeDetector

12:14 AM

@zaq Winter Bash won't end for 20 days, 23 hours, 45 minutes, and 48 seconds. GO EARN SOME HATS!

One of the hats has criteria described as "Earn reputation on Docs". Does that refer to SO documentation? Or some other site/

Oh, some of those hats look quite difficult to earn.

And some will skew normal activities on sites so people will certainly have things to complain about.

balpha

@bjb568 you and a ton of others

user315433

@b_jonas Docs are an SO-only feature, so this is an SO-only hat.

Some are easy to earn though, users can earn them by just voting on a particular day.

Tim Stone

@balpha I look forward to the 2016 reboot

12:19 AM

@zaq Right. I just wasn't sure if the terse description referred to that. I'm not on SO so I'm not familiar with the jargon.

Another hat description says "share a link to a question on social media that gets 5 clicks". I wonder what counts as social media.

Oh, there's a hat for earning a gold badge. There was one last year or maybe the year before that too.

Or was that one about a silver badge? Hmm.

user315433

There were both of those.

user315433

Some hats repeat, except in name and appearance.

user202362

O_o

user315433

The Dev Story hat is another SO-only hat, hence two non-SO hats for balance.

There's still no easy way to list all users who have earned a hat, right?

user315433

12:24 AM

Anyway, here's to three weeks of non-stop meta posts about hats.

user315433

Ask on Meta. :)

@zaq I thought I had a comment or something to that effect, but now I don't see it.

Maybe it was in chat.

What I'd like is a way to list hat instances sorted by any permutation of users, sites, and hats.

And hats aren't important enough, the devs have better things to do than add such a feature, I have better things to do than ask, and I have a bad experience with feature requests on Meta anyway.

@zaq Speaking of which, I just got a hat for a starred chat message, on MetaSE, and I'm pretty sure no such message exists.?

So did YOU just get a hat? (with my star)

user315433

I don't know, I opted out immediately.

That would be a "No". ;)

@b_jonas Did you just get a hat for chat?

Q: First Responder hat of the 2016 winter bash

12:32 AM

AWW, they're taking away the hats.

@AwesomePoodles I got a First Responder hat for something, but I'm not sure what for. It seems gone now.

12

The "First Responder" hat seams to be broken. The description of the hat: post a message in chat within ±12 hours of the UTC New Year’s begin that gets starred However I and many other already have the hat.

A: First Responder hat of the 2016 winter bash

@b_jonas Darn. There's always one spoilsport. :)

balpha

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To be fair, the hat description post a message in chat within ±12 hours of the UTC New Year’s begin that gets starred does not mention which New Years… … and so it was accidentally awarded for New Years 2016 :( Fixed now, and the hats removed (while we tend to let users keep hats that wer...

Don't worry, there are other easy hats you'll get. Try for "I am your father".

Maybe later. I only try to milk hats occasionally, when the mood strikes.

Go for "Search you must" too.

user315433

1:09 AM

> The 11 key features responsible for the success of Stack Overflow are, 1) Transparent Ideology, 2) Gamification, 3) Simplicity, 4) Objective Q&A Style, 5) Strict Moderation, 6) Built on Nine Building Blocks of Social Engineering, 7) Daily Community Involvement, 8) Strong Leadership, 9) Bright Career Prospects for Reputed Users, 10) Mobile-friendly Design, & 11) App Store Presence.

user315433

And 12) Hats, of course. From askwonder.com/q/…

user315433

It's one of paid Q&A sites, with the price of $40+ per question.

user315433

Which is more expensive than uclue.com - but also the interface is fancier, so

user315433

Not a bad summary, but the role of apps is greatly exaggerated.

user315433

> when all you have is computers everything looks like data -- Computer Facts at 12:18 PM - 18 Dec 2016

2:37 AM

AHHHH WINTER BASH IS LIVE!!!

winterbash2016.stackexchange.com

Hat ALL the things

Can we get one boxing for ^^?

Do winter bash run on Evey site (including all betas also)? /cc @rene

user315433

On all except (1) private betas; (2) those that opted out.

user315433

One boxing for random webpages is not supported, and the winterbash page is just a webpage that is designed anew every year.

2:43 AM

@zaq How do I know if particular site has opted out for WB or not? /cc @ShadowWizard

user315433

@Pandya If there is a snowflake in the topbar next to your inbox, then they are in. Otherwise they are out.

user315433

MathOverflow opted out as always, I don't know of any other site.

user315433

Also, /cc @random @users is generally not the best chat strategy.

Damn mathematicians always ruining christmas

@zaq I'm not /cc-ing random users, I am pinging to those whom I know :p

2:50 AM

Does anyone else feel like the Snapchat hat encourages FGITW?

user315433

4:06 AM

/me wonders if my message with "@random" actually pinged @random (which it shouldn't have).

random

Why not? It's in the name

user315433

But it works only for users who were in the room recently; your name didn't autocomplete when I typed.

random

Felt like it did

user315433

Weird. Sorry about the random ping, then.

Shadow Wizard

7:50 AM

@zaq not random, I gave him permission to ping me whenever he has a question. :)

@Pandya there's no indication in the sites list, but you can go over the list of sites in the Leaderboard, and sites that are not there most likely opted out.