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The secret hat 'Mother of Dragons'

has the following trigger:

Create a first post (question or answer) that after 3 days is +3 or higher.

More specifically:

- Visit a site where you have never posted a question or answer before (even if it's been deleted).
- Post a new question or answer during Winter Bash.
- Get its score to at least 3.
- Wait until the post is 3 days old.
- The post cannot be deleted or community wiki, and if it's a question, it cannot be closed.

I have asked a question a week ago on Earth Science: Does the geothermal activity influence the climate in Iceland? which was my first post there, and I think it should qualify for the hat. Is there a bug in the trigger? It reminds me of Why are there no review tasks generated for a couple of my recent First Posts on a site? Or did I post an question/answer before there and I just can't remember it anymore?

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There is no bug in the trigger. There is a very small bug in the detailed description that you posted here, where according to this description you should earn the hat, but according to the exact definition you don't get it.

Update: as you guessed, it is a similar issue as to what happened on the first posts on a site hat trigger.

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  • OK. Now I'm wondering where in that description is room for a small bug ... And if animuson deliberately put it there ...
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Dec 22, 2019 at 13:26
  • I don't think that it was deliberate. Only a power user like you would possibly even run into it. Required a very close reading of the sql and a minute of head scratching to figure out why you weren't getting it.
    – Yaakov Ellis StaffMod
    Commented Dec 22, 2019 at 13:44
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    I take that as a compliment :)
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Dec 22, 2019 at 13:46
  • I am left wondering. Will you tell us after WB completed what the small error in the description was?
    – Bart van Ingen Schenau
    Commented Dec 22, 2019 at 13:59
  • Yeah, would be happy to
    – Yaakov Ellis StaffMod
    Commented Dec 22, 2019 at 14:00
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    @glorfindel did I answer your question well enough to get an accept?
    – Yaakov Ellis StaffMod
    Commented Dec 22, 2019 at 16:49
  • To be honest, no; I'd expect the full definition of the trigger (or at least a concrete pointer). But, since it's holiday season and you need it for one of the hats: here you go!
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Dec 22, 2019 at 18:31
  • Happy New Year, and congratulations for winning Winter Bash 2019 on Meta! See the bounty message, perhaps you could expand your answer.
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Jan 2, 2020 at 6:57
  • Thank you. I agree that it was a design flaw, but it was not something that I was able to take care of at the time. If we ever reuse this hat or something like it, it will apply only to questions and answers.
    – Yaakov Ellis StaffMod
    Commented Jan 2, 2020 at 8:07

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