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More efficient way to clean a column of strings and add a new column
Was a -3 question in which I answered and has subsequently become a 3+ question along with my answer becoming 5+.
Are there other criteria that aren't listed? Is it possible the periodic criteria checker has skipped it for some reason?
According to the timeline, that question had a total of zero votes on it at the time you posted your answer. The three downvotes came in later, one of which was yours that you retracted. However, the hat is not for just having an answer on a -3 question that becomes +3 - the answer needs to be posted after it was already at -3. The theory of the hat is that your answer turned the question around, similar to the Reversal badge. Your answer there would have never qualified for the hat regardless of the votes that came in later.
Ah, because it was never reached -3 in the first place (I'm talking about the question). If you can see its vote counts, it says +7/-2:
Probably by the time the hat checker came by, someone retracted their downvote so the lowest it can possibly be is actually -2. Since the question needs to be at -3 at one point, you couldn't get the hat.
