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The "First Responder" hat seems to be broken.

First Responder

The description of the hat states:

post a message in chat within ±12 hours of the UTC New Year’s begin that gets starred

However, many users, including me, already have the hat.

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  • Yeah, almost everybody has this hat.
    – Oriol
    Dec 19, 2016 at 0:24
  • The bug has been fixed.
    – ypercubeᵀᴹ
    Dec 19, 2016 at 0:32

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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 were only awarded because of bugs, in this case it's too obvious).

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  • Aw, and I liked my 2017 hat 2 weeks early. Thanks.
    – David
    Dec 19, 2016 at 0:34
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    Oh, I thought getting the hat meant you had to post a message at the appropriate time or else the universe would vanish in a puff of logic.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Dec 19, 2016 at 0:36
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    @Gilles Excellent idea, I should've done that instead.
    – balpha StaffMod
    Dec 19, 2016 at 0:36
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    @David, then maybe you shouldn't have narked. ;)
    – Awesome Poodles
    Dec 19, 2016 at 0:38
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    They took my hat!
    – Memor-X
    Dec 19, 2016 at 0:42

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