Why did I not get the Explorer hat?

Question

The Explorer hat's trigger is

post an accepted answer that receives no other votes for 12 hours

(which is the same as the Naruto hat from 2014.)

This is my answer (the post timeline), where I think I fulfilled all of the hats requirements.

I have read the other "y no hat" questions and the problems are things that I have mentioned in here as already fulfilled.

I'm kind of hoping that there is some bug, like there was last time.

And the question is upvoted (and has been for ~18 hours, so not a recent vote + hat-award delay). — Monica Cellio, Dec 24, 2017 at 18:32
Winter Bash – that time of the year when people complain about getting upvotes ... — Glorfindel, Dec 24, 2017 at 18:50
Does this answer your question? Why didn't (or did) I or some other user get a hat although the requirements were (or weren't) fulfilled? — Rand al'Thor, Sep 12 at 21:49

animuson · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-24 18:35:59Z

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Someone did vote on your post a couple of hours after it was accepted. The vote was just retracted about 20 seconds after it was cast.

answered Dec 24, 2017 at 18:35

animusonStaffMod

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Probably because the upvoter later noticed the OP's comment asking people not to upvote it, and therefore retracted the vote. Since that's not really in the spirit of the hat, I think it's completely fine that the hat wasn't awarded :)
– balpha StaffMod
Dec 24, 2017 at 18:50
@balpha and animuson thanks. I'm not stupid with the bash stuff. I knew it had to either be a bug (unlikely), or somebody voted and retracted it. :/ Well here goes again...
– David
Dec 24, 2017 at 20:37

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