Timeline for Winter Bash 2014 Secret Hats
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| Dec 22, 2015 at 16:41 | history | edited | Zizouz212 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 7, 2015 at 16:19 | history | edited | Air | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Past tense now. A little more detail on Chameleon and Eureka!
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| Jan 6, 2015 at 19:24 | history | edited | The Guy with The Hat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 6, 2015 at 19:04 | history | edited | Kevin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a link to the blog post about the end of Winter Bash 2014
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| Jan 5, 2015 at 20:51 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @NoviceInDisguise Please read this discussion. | |
| Jan 5, 2015 at 19:31 | history | edited | Monica Cellio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
since we're collapsing onto one canonical answer, removed the joke entry that isn't a secret hat
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| Jan 5, 2015 at 19:28 | history | edited | The Guy with The Hat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 31, 2014 at 22:43 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @ruffin Simply creating an account is enough to get you the hat | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 22:19 | comment | added | ruffin | Argh. Danged 5-min limit. New in bold: I also created an account, answered, and had that answer voted up and accepted on the site where I was proxying, fwiw. I should also add I'm loving my mantis hat. Reminds me of the Vrusk. | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 22:13 | comment | added | ruffin | @cybermonkey I was using a proxy too when I bagged the Chameleon iirc. Hrm... (Pretty sure I also answered and had an answer accepted on the site where I was proxying.) | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 15:18 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @randal'thor Assuming the time limit is one year, yes. | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 12:36 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | So is it impossible to get Time Lord on betas less than a year old? | |
| Dec 31, 2014 at 10:02 | comment | added | iphigenie | I just wanted to tell you guys that I got the chameleon without changing my profile, other than changing a hat. I did not change the profile picture, itself. | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 16:16 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | @abbyhairboat You poor thing, your inbox must be overflowing! Fancy joining up to Puzzling? ;-) | |
| Dec 29, 2014 at 7:21 | comment | added | Caleb Stanford | @abbyhairboat This is a comment. | |
| Dec 27, 2014 at 16:22 | comment | added | PF4Public | For me it feels like there's no per-user setting for obtaining Chameleon hat, on the contrary - looks like this is server-wide setting, which changes over time. My observation for this is that I spent several minutes, trying and changing fields in my profile without luck. I also tried to register account as it suggested , but also to no avail. At last I did update all the fields and a picture over all of my profiles, which resulted in obtaining hat from all of the sites. Some time later I did register another account and got a hat again. So I believe it's time dependent, not user. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 16:59 | comment | added | Ňɏssa Pøngjǣrdenlarp | @abbyhairboat Just leaving this here for reasons | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 11:05 | comment | added | Himanshu | @abbyhairboat - is this true? | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 6:22 | comment | added | cremefraiche | @abbyhairboat yay for hats. | |
| Dec 23, 2014 at 15:38 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @PlasmaHH meta.stackexchange.com/a/245712/238586 | |
| Dec 23, 2014 at 11:46 | comment | added | PlasmaHH | Hm, the eureka description is a bit fuzzy... I mean, I just got the chameleon, thought "oh, it must have been the new site I joined; hm, the name makes sense for changing 'what you are' so changing other things in your profile should work too" so I essentially guessed what one can get it for, but so far no Eureka hat. So there must be more to it than just guessing. | |
| Dec 23, 2014 at 9:10 | comment | added | mirabilos | Chameleon can also be got by just changing the profile pic (to an actual face that can wear hats). But I got my favourite hat now, だってばよ！ | |
| Dec 23, 2014 at 4:26 | comment | added | Ahaan S. Rungta | @Kevin I see; thanks for the response! Still wondering about the Chameleon hat. It seems I can't get it on Math.StackExchange even though someone who seems like he shouldn't have gotten it actually got it. :/ | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 21:16 | comment | added | Kevin | @Ahaan If you're not privy yet, the Praying Mantis "hat" is a joke. The Chameleon hat looks like a bug upside-down, but you don't actually earn a new hat for it. | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 16:46 | history | edited | Air | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
With 19 revisions by 11 users, this preamble is surely not necessary (if it ever was). Got rid of boilerplate image non-descriptions.
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| Dec 22, 2014 at 11:36 | comment | added | AStopher | I got the Chameleon hat by visiting Stack Overflow via a proxy (Tor Browser- was having cache issues). | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 10:01 | comment | added | ghosts_in_the_code | @TheGuywithTheElfHat Yes, I noticed. I had to log out and log in again to receive it, though. | |
| Dec 22, 2014 at 6:23 | comment | added | Ahkam Nihardeen | Can confirm that joining a site gives you a hat, happened to my when trying to join this site | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 22:52 | comment | added | chris | Chameleon has to do with having multiple accounts, maybe partaking in activity on more than one site/being a trusted user. | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 20:20 | comment | added | Austin Henley | Wish I could get the @abbyhairboat hat on Academia! | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 19:02 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @user45195 You did. | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 15:26 | comment | added | ghosts_in_the_code | I just upvoted the 1st answer on math.stackexchange.com/questions/379927/…. Why didn't I get the fascinating hat? | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 2:58 | comment | added | Ahaan S. Rungta | By the way, I guess the @abbyhairboat hat is unachievable on Math.StackExchange? | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 16:19 | comment | added | Ahaan S. Rungta | Hm, I've also been wearing the Chameleon hat upside down for quite a while and I see no separate hat. If it doesn't count in the hatcount, why is there a separate hat name for it? :/ | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 16:08 | comment | added | Unihedron | For Praying Mantis... I still cannot tell whether it actually exists, or is just the Chameleon. | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 15:56 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @Sompuperoo You already got it. It's a weird hat in that it's automatically worn as soon as you earn it. However, because it's a secret secret hat, it doesn't show up in the hat list. | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 14:31 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @Sompuperoo Of course it's a real separate hat! | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 19:56 | history | edited | The Guy with The Hat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2014 at 19:22 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @PaulG meta.stackexchange.com/… | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 19:18 | comment | added | PaulG | So far everything seems correct, but for the Time Lord hat, how did you find old questions? | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 15:04 | comment | added | J Sargent | @Chenmunka Interesting . . . I tried several questions on Blender.SE (3D application) and I did not get the hat. So I decided to try it again, and after making sure it fit the criteria, I got it within a few minutes. | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 13:46 | comment | added | PseudoNym01 | Can confirm Chameleon worked for me | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 7:00 | comment | added | hobbs | Arguably useful information: Fascinating is Spock (obviously). Fascinating, Ma'am appears to be Tuvok. "Ma'am" because he would be saying it to Janeway, I suppose. | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 4:13 | comment | added | Conor O'Brien | I just got a "Warm Welcome" for upvoting a 2-year-old post on StackOverflow (this one) | |
| Dec 19, 2014 at 0:06 | comment | added | RobotHumans | Does my logic on Chameleon seem pretty on point? | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 22:49 | comment | added | Makoto | @abbyhairboat: Is there a more natural way to go about that hat? You don't lurk anywhere near enough to Workplace for me to not have to find you on MSE (and I rather like Workplace.SE)... :( | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 17:42 | comment | added | starsplusplus | Weird, I thought Fascinating was for upvoting a question, comment and answer on the same page. I guess those times I did that I must have just happened to vote upvoted accepted answers. Shame, I kind of liked what I thought it was! | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 17:05 | comment | added | jmac StaffMod | @abbyhairboat you are really bad at playing hide and seek. You could have at least hid in Expatriates meta or something. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 16:48 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @BenPlont Yes, I know. That's in the last bullet point in the Chameleon section of this answer. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 16:45 | comment | added | Ben Plont | Starting a new SE account by logging in with an existing SE account will trigger Chameleon. (for instance the meta account I created to post here) | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 16:01 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @abbyhairboat Do you want to get spammed with notifications? | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 15:43 | comment | added | Insomniac Software | and I'm very interested in hearing more about your reasons. How can I sign up for your newsletter? | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 1:14 | comment | added | hairboat StaffMod | Just leaving this here for reasons. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 0:44 | comment | added | Jeffrey Kemp | Yeah, I was referring to just the ones shown in this answer. I'm not complaining, mind you, I've worn a few of these "hats" already :) | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 0:40 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @JeffreyKemp I'd say plenty of them look like hats. See On The Road, Bugdroid, I Voted Today, Tam, o' Shanter, Kofia, Werewolf Hunter, Treasure Hunter, and Fear & Loathing. | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 0:30 | comment | added | Jeffrey Kemp | Does it bother anyone else that none of these look remotely like hats? | |
| Dec 18, 2014 at 0:29 | history | edited | The Guy with The Hat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 23:57 | history | edited | Daniel Smith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I tried both methods to get a waffle, and only got a waffle when downvoting, improving, and then upvoting a question. Not the other way around.
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 18:48 | comment | added | Rob Stevenson-Leggett | I got the Chameleon by changing my display name then changing it back again on the Tridion Stack Exchange site. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 15:56 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @MagicalPhoenixϡ Which hat? | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 15:55 | comment | added | GiantCowFilms | I have some form of proof that that closed questions don't count towards the time-lord hat, I would appreciate verification. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 15:53 | history | edited | The Guy with The Hat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 15:48 | comment | added | MysticMagicϡ | Count as in that doesn't satisfy criteria for hat. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 15:45 | comment | added | The Guy with The Hat | @MagicalPhoenixϡ Count towards what? | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 8:19 | history | edited | mikuszefski | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 7:45 | history | edited | Optimizer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 6:33 | comment | added | MysticMagicϡ | We need to SUGGEST EDIT, right? If I am privileged to edit posts without them to be reviewed, that doesn't count, right? | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 6:08 | history | edited | rolfl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
No need for accepted answer
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 4:48 | history | edited | mmyers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
time lord elves?
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 4:38 | history | edited | rolfl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add note on Fascinating, ma'am
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 4:17 | history | edited | Unihedron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 0:14 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @Scimonster It worked for me on some sites but not others. I can't figure out what made it work or not. It doesn't seem to be related to voting on answers or to the age of the question. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 0:13 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 23:22 | history | edited | AKS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 23:18 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | I find the “warm welcome” in a bad taste. A hat with a communist symbol that looks like it could possibly belong to a border patrol or gulag guard uniform? Shouldn’t such a thing rather be awarded for shooting new users’ posts on sight? Are we going to get hats with Hakenkreuze, too? | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 21:01 | comment | added | Scimonster | I upvoted a few 25-score questions but didn't get Fascinating, Ma'am. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 20:58 | comment | added | Kevin | I really appreciate you creating a canonical list, Guy with the Elf Hat! | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 20:48 | history | edited | Air | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
You don't have to outline the *exact* criteria for the hat to get the Eureka award. How close you have to be may depend on the whim of whoever's awarding them.
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 18:27 | comment | added | StuartLC | Confirmed, editing About Me (only) triggered Chameleon for me. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 17:02 | comment | added | Air | Thanks for this. Not related to award conditions, but worth noting that the comments on at least one of abby's recent posts are being cleaned up (presumably to avoid Abby Overflow). | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 17:01 | history | edited | Air | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Test results from Dec 15 UTC-8: 1200 UV-to-DV on answer w/third party edit. 1220 DV-to-UV on 1 ans w/3pe, 1 ans w/3p edit, 1 ans w/OP edit. 1244 UV-to-DV on Q w/OP edit. 1257 DV-to-UV on Q w/mod edit. 104 reversed vote on item from first test after OP edit (now UV). All tests negative for waffles.
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 16:43 | history | edited | The Guy with The Hat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 16:22 | history | edited | The Guy with The Hat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 16:13 | history | edited | Compass | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I literally got it for naming myself Compass Waffles and changing back to Compass.
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 16:02 | history | edited | The Guy with The Hat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 15:54 | vote | accept | Kevin | ||
| S Dec 16, 2014 at 15:48 | history | answered | The Guy with The Hat | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Dec 16, 2014 at 15:48 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by The Guy with The Hat |