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11:00 AM
@Derpy Well, in a way, if you want just one list, a community wiki is what you should be after. If you want a separate answer for each hat, then you wait for everyone to post their own answers (but you may have duplicates and drama to deal with too)
 
@ShadowWizard all you need to do is hate your job and post answers over lunch ;)
 
Honestly, I think SE employees might just as well make those posts when they start winterbash and make them CW, that way no-one can complain XD
 
@Derpy oh... I meant the author of the question though. :)
 
@Tinkeringbell and make them wiki from the start.
 
@Derpy Yep, 'and make them CW' :P
I got that part covered ;)
 
11:02 AM
@Tinkeringbell @ShadowWizard well, they've talked of using MSE like a blog
and those posts could (should?) be CWified
 
@Derpy exactly! Eran got hundreds of rep from this. :)
 
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. The point is that all the fights back then started because the answers were retroactively removed.
 
@JourneymanGeek Probably. Means I would never have gotten as much reputation as I have now though! :P
 
had all the posts been CW from the start, no one would have complained...
 
@Derpy onebox is "dumb", no checks whatsoever, it just show the author. The user showing at CW "author" is calculated somehow, something with lines diff.
 
11:03 AM
@Tinkeringbell Well, I'm a firm believer in plugging through and getting rep over going for the quick ways
 
@Derpy That's most likely true, and that's where my suggestion came from :)
@JourneymanGeek Oh, I do try. I do get beaten to the point often though XD
 
@Tinkeringbell that's fine.
I often see what they wrote and just go for another angle ;p
 
like I was still doubting if I should answer here and a certain @shadow beat me to it again! :P
It feels weird writing answers that are just 4 lines long
 
@Tinkeringbell don't doubt
 
@Tinkeringbell slap me for being quick! :D
 
11:05 AM
you can always edit
@ShadowWizard my SU graph looks like that too
 
@JourneymanGeek Eh, I prefer to do it right in one go ;)
 
I jokingly call that "leveling up"
 
@Tinkeringbell perfect is the enemy of "at all"
 
@Tinkeringbell and that is why now I focus on chicken research instead
 
11:07 AM
@Derpy in ideal world, what @Tinkeringbell suggested is true, SE staff will start all the classic "winter bash lists" every year and make them CW. But... you know, world isn't ideal and so is SE. Staff has no time for this, so those quick enough get a big prize.
 
@ShadowWizard on the other hand, a proportionally, eh, you get a week or two of repcaps?
 
@JourneymanGeek only Skeet get those... Never Ending Repcap
 
Skeet works for it, somewhat ;)
He does post a ton of good answers
 
Will see if I get to continue the chain this year.
 
11:09 AM
Hats list is good too though. :D
(or asking for it)
 
not to be the party crasher here, but last year the hunt didn't go very well. People basically lost interest after the first 3-4 days.
 
@JourneymanGeek Okay. Next time I see a post I can answer in three words, I will do so :P
 
@Tinkeringbell many of my answers start with no, then get padded out ;)
 
@Derpy maybe because it was 100% copy and paste from previous year(s). Hopefully this year they'll add new hats with new ideas/triggers to get those hats.
 
@JourneymanGeek :) The 'no' questions often are easiest to answer :)
@ShadowWizard Of course they will! I didn't spend an entire afternoon last year glueing together a prototype! :P
 
11:14 AM
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status-lost-Tinker
 
@ShadowWizard I doubt there's designer budget for new hats
 
@Derpy Add it! Worst case it would be nuked. ;)
 
what?
@Magisch :(
 
@ShadowWizard Last years contest was all about designing new hats for this year, right? :)
 
11:16 AM
@ShadowWizard be realistic. They always reuse the same triggers, who are strongly biased towards high rep users on high traffic sites.
 
@Magisch not talking about design. Enough to have original names and original and new ideas, that were not used before. :)
Well, names were fine, but ideas 100% copy and paste.
Post x questions, post y answers, post on [time range here], etc.
All good, but without adding new ideas, long time users will just lose interest.
 
As I have already said multiple times, if it depended on me... the trigger would be A LOT more obscure.
or at least the secret hats ones would be.
 
@ShadowWizard I think building in new triggers would take more time/effort than just designing a new hat for the same trigger.
 
@Tinkeringbell hehe, not really... I doubt they'll use any of those hats for the actual winter bash. :)
 
Most of the triggers seem to be based on stuff that's already being recorded in daily use ;)
 
11:18 AM
but I can totally understand the effort/cost problem here
 
@Derpy too hard is also not fun
 
@JourneymanGeek true, but it can work for the secret hats.
Secret hat earned too easily is worth nothing, IMO.
 
@JourneymanGeek Still, I think I posted a little rant shortly after winterbash in the 'suggestions for next year' to make it a little harder, to avoid mostly really bad questions being asked for the sake of hats.
 
It's like getting a gold badge for your first post on a site, just for posting it. It makes you value badges a LOT less.
 
@ShadowWizard Not true :P It makes you have high standards for your second post as well :P
 
11:21 AM
So last year "secret" hats that were awarded just like that made me value them a lot less.
 
@JourneymanGeek one thing is hard. One thing is obscure. Hard is an hat that requires you to get 10 upvotes in ten minutes on a 2 votes a day site where most of the highest rep users don't even have access to 20k mod tools. Obscure is something that everyone can easily do, but few will try.
and some would be very easy to do.
 
The best hat was some secret hat awarded when a post you made was shared by 5 different people, or something like that.
Nobody was able to guess that.
 
Personally, I liked Onion Knight
 
My guess was related to HNQ, which was pretty close. ;)
(since HNQ and their answers get to be shared more)
 
For example... every year they add the same line "contact us if you want to buy an hat". Add an actual e-mail address to that line and finally the "I-totally-didn't-buy-this" hat could be real
 
11:24 AM
@Mithrandir yeah, that's the second best IMO. :)
 
another cool and obscure hat idea... give an asteroid hat for playing the Asteroid game.
or for summoning Cthulhu... (assuming that still works somewhere)
 
Hats for chat are rare.
I'll go with hat for this:
(the dog's hat ^)
The first and only cross-domain chat easter egg. :)
 
I'd have to resurrect this room then...
 
 
11:32 AM
ohhhh lol
 
@ShadowWizard how original, never done before :P
 
self slap for having short memory
second slap for ignoring own suggestion to be original
faints
 
escorts Shadow out of Tavern because they have passed out and are assumed to be drunk
 
mumble mumble
What came first? Hat, or easter egg? @Derpy
 
Heh... this one is sharp. Never thought about it, always took it for granted that it would copy your entire profile to all communities ;)
 
11:37 AM
Anyway, they could easily forego the hat costs if they had the idea to do a contest for creating an hat instead of the cheese thing
 
@Tinkeringbell nah, it used to copy only changed fields.
 
and I mean an actual usable hat image, not a real world craft.
 
@Derpy as in SVG?
 
exactly.
 
That won't be fair, only few can really make SVG, the others can't take part.
 
11:38 AM
@ShadowWizard Really? I must be confused then. Perhaps I did make changes to things before copying XD
 
then just ask for contributions in exchange for popularity.
 
If anything, they can do something like they did with SO logo.
@Tinkeringbell well, I never used this button afraiding this exact bug. But I did see several mentions about how it should function. :)
 
Create a mail account "hats @ stackoverflow.com" and then ask people to send in ideas. Best ones get picked and the hat description will contain the name of the user who sent the design.
That way, people won't even know what hats were picked BEFORE the event starts.
 
Not a bad idea ™
 
no need for swags either.
just the time to check the submissions.
 
11:42 AM
@Derpy I'm not giving up my ideas for free. I want rep or swag or both. But I don't work for free! XD
 
I guess we can ask @balpha to consider such a thing for real, assuming he's still part of Winter Bash team. (Idea: ask people to send SVG files with hat designs to SE by email in order to save some dev time/money, see above messages from @Derpy)
 
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12:08 PM
trying to do remote software development on a server that has 1.4 mbit / s upload upstream
like pulling teeth
 
Also, this isn't a feature request asking to add such a feature, it's just a discussion about the concept. — Shadow Wizard 30 secs ago
In case someone downvoted thinking it's a feature request ^
 
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NO ME
circling around the corner of the room...
 
@Someone, not @Somewhat. ;)
(Wondering, does it ping? ^)
 
pong, with both highlight at @Some_
(grr... you made me pinged the other one...)
 
12:21 PM
lol
 
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@SmokeDetector k
 
1:14 PM
Is it just me, or does the logo of SF&F look broken in HNQ?
 
umm, again?
 
Oh. That's a thing already? :D
 
well, last time it's the site switcher...
though SF&F looks fine for me, but then might be different CDN...
 
Broken how?
 
If it looks fine for you, it's probably on my side :)
@Catija Like.. not there at all. Lemme take a snap
 
1:17 PM
hmm... some of the logo seems to be too lower...
 
It's consequent. Just SF&F, and it's on all three questions in the HNQ that I encountered when scrolling down
 
erh... HNQ on SE homepage. I thought the sidebar... still looks fine...
 
@Somewhat Heh. I'm sorry. I'm not used to being very specific :P
Now it looks okay (after f5)
Strange stuff is happening here. Sometimes reloading fixes stuff, sometimes it needs more than 1 reload though.
I'm definitely going to blame the work setup.
 
!!/blame the work setup
???
!!/alive
 
@Somewhat You doubt me?
 
1:23 PM
!!/blame for doubting you
 
@Somewhat It's Rob's fault.
 
1:53 PM
I probably overstepped my bounds by overhauling that post in the first place. meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/375164/revisions
Still, Tyler's edit seemed weirdly combative.
 
I don't see anything wrong with your edit. Tyler's revision comment certainly seems a bit weird. Maybe he's having a bad day.
 
People just need to stop using Edge... will make everything better. ;)
 
edge breaks my company's ERP system
data tables 100% don't work properly with it
 
2:09 PM
I like edge. It pretends to be safari so I can download Windows 10 isos
(safari is even worse)
 
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2:21 PM
oh
@Catija remember the festival I was telling you about?
That's this year's ;p
 
@JourneymanGeek Huh? what was that for?
@JourneymanGeek Navratri?
 
@NogShine yup
 
Nice.
 
though I remember it as golu XD
 
@JourneymanGeek Pretty! I like the things on the floor... the sort of sand art things? What are they made of?
 
2:23 PM
@JourneymanGeek Yeah. I was about to use that name. Some people do it on Diwali too.
 
coloured flour
Rangoli is an art form, originating in the Indian subcontinent, in which patterns are created on the floor or the ground using materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals. It is usually made during Diwali or Tihar, Onam, Pongal and other Hindu festivals in the Indian subcontinent. Designs are passed from one generation to the next, keeping both the art form and the tradition alive. The purpose of rangoli is decoration, and it is thought to bring good luck. Design depictions may also vary as they reflect traditions, folklore, and practices that are unique to each area...
 
Huh. Interesting! Also, your bananas are tiny! They're so cute.
 
@Catija oh, that's cause we eat different, tastier varieties
you americans literally have one common variety, the cavendish.
We consider that... pretty terrible
 
There is Barcode on bananas XD
 
Yeah, it's awful. We do get what we call "baby bananas" here, which are good, though they're not shelf stable as long.
Though, I'm not a huge banana fan, though I love banana flavored things... so maybe it's just the Cavendish that's the problem.
 
2:25 PM
@Catija Ya, cavendishes are basically meant to be hardy. And not much else
@Catija ah, see..
banana flavoured things taste like the previous common banana
the gros michel
 
Yeah, which died. :(
 
which went nearly extinct
 
Because we don't have seeds or something... because seedless bananas are easier to eat.
 
But in india (and I guess asia) we have other local types
 
nearly? So it does still exist?
 
2:26 PM
even red ones!
Most domestic bananas grow through vegitative propagation
 
I know they're not the same but I do like a good fried plantain.
 
@Catija I'm sure there's rare ones
ah, we make chips out of unripe plantains
you can also do whatever you do with a spud with it.
 
Pretty much.
 
We also eat...
Banana flowers, banana stems...
we don't eat banana leaves but we eat on it...
 
The purple flower things?
Leaves are good for steaming stuff, though, and have a nice fragrance.
 
2:28 PM
Kinda
so, those are buds
you can peel off the purple bits and there's little slightly bitter flowerthings inside
you need to remove the central core, and slice em up
 
Banana bajji is tasty. Raw bananas are used for this dish.
A bhaji, bhajji, or bajji is a spicy Indian snack or entree dish similar to a fritter, with several variants. It is a popular snack food in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Assam, West Bengal and Odisha in India, and can be found for sale in street-side stalls, especially in tapris (on streets) and dhabas (on highways). Outside the Indian states of Kerala, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka, such preparations are often known as pakora. Bhajis are a component of traditional Marathi, Tamil, and Telugu cuisine served on special occasions and...
 
Oh, huh. I had no idea.
 
annnd there's like a "heart" of that...
Banana stems are a bit like your...
I believe heart of palm?
 
Hmmm... maybe. They're kinda boring.
 
oh this has an interesting texture
though if its a bit 'old' you basically need to get out a bunch of fibre
Banana stems and flowers are a bit of a chore to prep
 
2:31 PM
I generally dislike banana
 
No real flavor, just some texture. I prefer the bamboo shoots or whatever they are.
 
@Magisch our bananas are not your bananas
;)
 
And water chestnuts, which have no real flavor but a nice, crisp bite.
 
oh those are nice
and the normal ones! We sometimes get them roasted
 
Roasted chestnuts are great for winter fairs when it's cold. We got them in Germany and France over a decade ago and they were a great way to keep your hands warm while walking in the cold.
 
2:35 PM
I THINK they're a seasonal thing here
oddly enough its one of the few things I've seen being sold proper street-food like
 
@JourneymanGeek This festival is celebrated by some during Diwali and some during Sankranti (pongal).
 
@NogShine oh for us its navaratri.
Diwali is oddly unimportant for us
 
Diwali has turned into a festival of crackers and fireworks but it was originally festival of lights.
 
Well Karthigai is also a festival of lights
;p
And we actually have lights everywhere
we just go to the temple on deepavali
 
Is Karthigai Kartika Pournami? Yeah. It is also festival of lights.
 
2:42 PM
probably
 
We put lights near god daily but on Diwali and Kartika Pournami, it is everywhere.
 
ah, ya
 
@JourneymanGeek Yeah. It is.
I got familiar with Tamil names through some of my friends online. Otherwise, it would be bit confusing. :P
 
ah yah
Mom's busy with navaratri cause its when ladies visit each other
WHICH REMINDS ME!
 
@Catija Is there any bug in merging or synonymizing tags? Though is a master of , latter is shown in tag suggestions while posting questions. Some questions are still tagged with .
@JourneymanGeek Same with my mother too.
 
2:49 PM
@NogShine ya. I need to remind her to do some stuff she's promised to help me do
 
3:10 PM
@NogShine Not sure how that's supposed to work.
 
@Catija if you ever visit during the autumn, try some roasted macaroons
they have the same effect but are really tasty too
 
@Magisch Macaroons? As in the coconut cookie?
 
@Magisch Oh, that's what we're talking about. Chestnuts.
 
Kastanien = Chestnuts?
TIL
 
3:14 PM
Yep!
For us, at least, macaroons are a cookie:
 
They make them a bit sweetened with some faint vanilla flavoring or pumpkin flavoring
ah
 
Not to be confused with Macarons:
 
The dish in germany is called "maronen" so I translated that to maccaroons
 
@Magisch Interesting! I've never had them flavored, only plain. We'd get them at the big Gluhwein kegs.
 
yah
it's a favorite german activity to walk around with Glühwein and roasted chestnuts to fend off the cold
 
3:17 PM
@Magisch Ah, so that's what I did wrong. :P
I like glühwein, never had the chestnuts
They're not really popular over here
 
if you're at one of the winter fairs it's quite cold out
 
We were in Munich for New Year's eve... they had this awesome fireworks thing... instead of having a big municipal display, they had this central park you could pay to get into and the residents would set off their own fireworks all around the outside of the park.
 
Year 11pm - 5.00am new years eve its actually legal to set off your own fireworks in all of germany
the rest of the year its not
 
@Catija Sounds cool!
 
3:21 PM
It was a lot of fun.
 
@Magisch 11? We're lucky :P we can start at 6pm. Probably so the kids that go to bed early still can see some ;)
Not that anyone minds, as soon as fireworks are being sold, people are firing!
 
last year someone almost set my apartment on fire
bad move having the window open, but still
 
I get that you're not a fan? ;)
 
I don't like celebrations. I like it less when some kids decide lets throw a firework in the open window
mostly because fixing hardwood floor is not free and it scared me out of my chair
 
Ouch. It's one thing if it comes in by accident, but to throw it in intentionally... that's not OK.
 
3:26 PM
was one of these:
thankfully it didn't land on me
It's nowhere near as menacing as it looks though. It's not a stick of dynamite or anywhere close to the power of a stick of dynamite
 
@Magisch Around here fireworks that leave the ground require a license to use. Not having the license can lead to felony charges for reckless endangerment and negligence
 
around here there's no regulation outside city limits that i know of
 
it's a lot drier here than most places and we have a lot of burnable brush
so fireworks + flammable landscape == death
 
3:57 PM
They're limiting them more and more over here too, because some people can't handle responsibility and hurt others :(
 
Its totally banned here
as are fake fireworks
(electronic noise makers)
 
Bah, transcript full of food and firecrackers
Now I'm hungry and want to destroy something ...
 
@rene Make stamppot :P
 
4:12 PM
@canon he is active in chat. I would ask him. He is okay.
@Tinkeringbell yes, boerenkool is on the menu tonight
that will help
poor potatoes ...
 
@rene With vegetarian rookworst? XD
I just saw the advertisement for that today. It doesn't look any different, wonder how it tastes
 
@Tinkeringbell no, with a Veluwse Fijne Rookworst from the appie ...
@Tinkeringbell tastes like meat I guess
Isn't that the point of making such products?
 
@rene Nice!
 
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4:31 PM
@JourneymanGeek that sounds super lame compared to the real deal
 
@rene Ehh. I've had some meat replacements that IMO didn't taste like meat at all :(
 
Hmmm, I really didn't venture into that area. Maybe I should.
 
@rene I highly recommend against it, but I've almost never had proper vegetarian food ;)
 
But animal welfare, climate change, guilty as charged ....
 
animal welfare perhaps, depending on where you get your meat.
 
4:43 PM
vegetable welfare...
 
climate change meh. Let the big companies that do a lot of the polluting make a change
@Somewhat That too... I mean, who could possibly be cruel enough to murder baby carrots!
 
well, maybe "warfare" instead of "welfare"..
 
5:08 PM
I knew it was going to get heavily downvoted, and get mostly replies from people who didn't seem to have read what I wrote, but I just had to post it, didn't I?
 
@Dukeling Huh? Who, What, Where?
 
@Tinkeringbell the "it" is linked (yeah, I almost overlooked it too)
 
@Somewhat It wasn't when I last looked XD
I'm reading it now :)
 
oh...
(´-﹏-`;)
 
The only way I can interpret downvotes on that answer is "no, it's perfectly fine to intentionally offend other people, as long as those people aren't in the majority".
 
5:18 PM
Well, there's a reason why I don't like reading HNQ from Philosophy.SE...
 
@Dukeling Perhaps that first comment is right though, and people really feel you're leaving too many loopholes. I wrote an answer to the CoC feedback post arguing about the same.
 
When people start leaving their controversial political opinions in the comments, it's probably time to stop replying.
@Tinkeringbell I don't see any more loopholes or subjectivity than there are with the way things currently work.
 
@Dukeling True.
 
Well, thank <insert proper name here> the flagger didn't do witch-hunting similar comments/chat messages...
 
I've had the same argument once... Over here, 'damn' would really be a curse/expletive. I don't dare to say that when my parents can here.
But sadly, language keeps 'evolving' and now things like fuck and damn and whatever are no longer considered as offensive because they've lost their value due to overuse.
 
5:32 PM
thus 'expletive', not 'profanity'
 
@Somewhat Depends on who you ask, but damn, goddamn, Jesus, Jeesh, all are considered profanity and using God's name in vain over here.
 
Being someone who's also grown up in a religious family, I understand...
 
If it were a "worse" word used in the same way, or if it was the same word directed at someone, I reckon everyone would've instead agreed that it's offensive.
Don't ask me when "damn" became an acceptable word in professional discourse.
 
@Dukeling Plenty of people say that over here when they're mad. Even in the context of a professional work environment :/
But yeah, there's stuff that's one flag deletable, and I'm amazed 'damn' isn't on that list.
 
5:46 PM
@Somewhat Yeah, I thought there was also some profanity in there... Must've been wrong then
 
@Tinkeringbell
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There is also some profanity in a spoiler blockquote in the seven dirty words post.
 
6:07 PM
On second thought... there's a lot of words that have the possibility to be offensive. I guess 'damn it' is a lot less offensive to people than 'damn you' and if I start translating Dutch profanity, I might get away with calling people pancakes or jellyfish :P
 
You make a food-fight out of it
 
I'll have panekuk for tonight's dream then... Night!
 
6:29 PM
@Somewhat Sleep well :)
(Put hagelslag on your pannenkoek ;) )
 

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