Questions tagged [winter-bash-2022]
For questions about the Winter / Summer Bash (holiday hats) to celebrate the end of the year 2022. It ran from Wednesday, December 14th 21:00 UTC to Wednesday, January 4th 21:00 UTC.
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Incorrect/Misleading Defending the Unicorn Quiz Stipulations
In the attempt to save Sparkles there is a quiz. One of the stipulations is as follows:
All answers are either integers or at most two words (no punctuation,
spaces optional), case insensitive
I've ...
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Hats popup isn't scrollable in the Samsung Internet browser [duplicate]
On my mobile phone, I can open the hats' popup from my activity page, but one I do so, I cannot scroll it. Or rather, no matter how much I scroll, the screen doesn't move, and I'm left with the same ...
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Gregorio Y. Zara hat covers up username in chat [duplicate]
The user Panda currently wears the Gregorio Y. Zara hat. But, now in chat, his username is covered up:
When a user has multiple messages in a row, their username is aligned under the profile image.
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Wrong phrasing in "Can you help guide Sparkles back home? " page [duplicate]
Once you find Sparkles, the instructions page tells us:
There she is! You have are almost there!
As I already mentioned last year, this should be either changed to:
There she is! You are almost ...
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Winter/Summer Bash snowflake is not appearing on the top bar of the main site (Stack Exchange) [duplicate]
I am not sure if this is intended, but I don't see the Winter/Summer Bash snowflake notification on the top bar of the main site (https://stackexchange.com).
It shows me the same inbox as on the other ...
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Grammar mistake in Sparkles the Unicorn Game [duplicate]
Page 3 of the Sparkles the Uniform Game has a grammar mistake in the second sentence of the page header:
There she is! You have are almost there!
Presumably the word "have" was ...
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Unable to scroll down to see all my hats in the Winter Bash hats pop-up
I'm unable to scroll down my list of hats in the Winter Bash hats pop-up as it scrolls the background (my activity page) instead.
This seems to be a very recent occurrence, perhaps due to a recent ...
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What's happened to my hats?
I recently reached 27 hats.
However, on the Winter Bash leaderboard, it displays me as only having 22 hats. Is this caching or a bug? (I had 25 hats yesterday and it was still showing 22 hats.)
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Has there ever been a picture of Sparkles the Unicorn?
I'm wondering if there has ever been a photo of Sparkles the Unicorn on Winter Bash.
Also, is there a particular reason that the Sparkles-related pages aren't formatted in Winter Bash style?
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Let's check in on Sparkles the Unicorn!
After two eventful years, Sparkles the Unicorn is determined to spend this year's holidays relaxing at home.
I bet she'd love to see her friends. Why don't you /visit-sparkles and see how she's doing?
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Can I swap Solstice (Sun) with Solstice (Moon) hat?
I earned the Solstice (Sun) hat but I would like the Solstice (Moon) hat instead. Is there any way to swap between them?
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Phrasing of "Squared Away" hat not clear
The Squared Away hat's description is (without clicking on it):
Post 4 answers on 4 separate sites during Winter Bash
Which is unclear for many users, I came across 3 users asking in chat that why ...
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What's "NY-CONWEB02"?
I saw this at the very bottom of the Winter Bash 2022 source code and it stuck out to me:
<!-- NY-CONWEB02 -->
Don't you think the people deserve to know what this means?
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What is the business reason for Winter Bash?
Obviously, Winter Summer Bash is delightful and fun and rewards regulars with a little gamification. But it also seems like a fairly large effort to plan, design, and maintain. Is there a business ...
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Will I get the Splunk hat when a [data] tag is added to a question after I answered it?
... and will it be seen as "cheating" when I add such a tag afterwards by myself, maybe after my answer already got an upvote? (Of course, the tag should fit to the question's content.)
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Winter Bash notifications do not live refresh
The Winter Bash notifications do not work like in previous years:
Once you get a new hat, you need to refresh the page (or open a new page) to see a change in achieved hats, and then only a blue ...
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Order of hats in the user profile popup [duplicate]
I'm struggling to understand the order the hats are featured in the user profile:
It's not the same order they appear in the Winter Bash homepage:
It's not the order you earned them - Hedy Lamarr is ...
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Earned Heads Up! hat on MSE without any helpful flags for a year
I just got the Heads Up! secret hat on Meta Stack Exchange without flagging anything for a year.
As mentioned on the hat list, the trigger for the Heads Up! hat is:
Yet, the last time I raised a ...
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Cannot wear selected hat, nor can I see its name, which site I earned it on, etc, [closed]
I just came across a problem where you cannot wear a hat, nor see its name and which site you earned it on.
I am currently wearing a hat, but once I want to select a new hat, nothing happens. Image:
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Leaderboard (presumably) displaying users who opted-out of Winter Bash
Over the past few days, I have come across several users who are in the Network-wide Leaderboard but have no hats shown in their activity page (i.e. no beanie on their activity page on a site where I ...
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How to receive a bounty from "Community"? [duplicate]
I was checking some bounties to see and realized that one of my answers was present on a newly bountied question.
This one to be specific: 500 window is not defined nuxt3 and composition api
I forgot ...
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Will the "Defender of the Unicorn" hat lead to lots of pointless noise in meta? [closed]
Obviously I’m asking this because as I’m seeking the "Defender of the Unicorn" hat but it also raises the question, are hats like this just going to end up causing extra noise in the meta ...
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The "Your Hats" view hides whether or not you have the hat on the current site, if you are wearing it
If you are wearing a hat, the dark blue label obscures whether or not you have the hat on the site you are currently using.
Can we find a way to label both?
Could we possibly have the light blue ...
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Is there a special 'trick' to Mmm, Cookies?
I cannot get what would seem to be one of the simplest hats to achieve - Mmm, Cookies!
I usually run all kinds of ad, content, cross-site tracker prevention & cookie blockers, so I switched off ...
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For days I've marveled at the silhouettes, until I realized they had color (Winter/Summer Bash 2022)
Using Firefox 108.0 since the start of the Bash, my Winter/Summer Bash site looked like this:
I pondered why they were just silhouettes, but I didn't investigate. I assumed this was by design. While ...
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Chatterbox and Verified hats considering the same room as if belonging to different SE sites
I participated in 2022 Winter\Summer Bash Starring room in order to attain the Chatterbox and Verified secret hats (their triggers are already confirmed).
I received both the hats as expected. But ...
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Leaderboard misaligned on different digit ranks
When I search somebody up, this happens:
As you can see, the profile images are misaligned vertically.
Also the hat count. This is a bug, and should be fixed to make it look better.
When you're ...
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White thick border on profile image while trying to wear hats
The title pretty much says it all, and here is the screenshot:
Why is there the white border on the hats tab? It kind of looks weird.
The fix: Just get rid of the white border.
Also, it doesn't limit ...
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On which sites can you earn the You Got Splunk! hat?
The trigger for the You Got Splunk! hat is as follows:
Ask or answer a question with a tag that includes the string "data". Your post must have score 1 or above.
Is it possible to earn ...
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The Tourist hat excludes users who previously had the Informed badge
It seems unfair that users who already had the Informed badge on a given site are entirely ineligible to earn the Tourist hat on that site during the Winter Bash 2022. This should be a season of ...
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Are the hats easier to earn this year?
I usually end up with 2 or 3 hats at the end of Winter Bash every year, but this year I already have 5 so far.
I don't usually pay much attention to the hat requirements, so I can't really compare ...
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X to exit hat modal blends into banner
This is the hat modal on Community's profile in dark mode. As you can see (or can you?), the X in the corner blends into the banner, potentially because of my screen size:
(Also happens in light mode....
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How to get Miranda hat if you can't suggest edits anymore
I've got the edit privilege and I can't suggest edits anymore.
Do I have to suggest edits on another Stack Exchange site to get the Miranda hat?
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Misleading legend description in the hats modal
The bottom of the modal showing a user's hats has the following text:
Yet, doesn't show the hat my account is wearing, but the one the user whose profile I'm viewing is wearing. Similarly, shows ...
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FAQ for Winter Summer Bash says there are no site-specific hats, but the 2cool4skool description says "(Stack Overflow only)"
The FAQ page says:
Do any sites have custom hats?
No. All hats can be earned on any participating Stack Exchange site. There are also a few hats that can only be earned through meta site ...
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Winter Summer Bash Hat list is not displayed on a user's profile if you don't have a profile on the site
I'm not a member of the politics stack. An awesome user has some hats I was hoping to browse, but I'm not prepared to join the Politics site at this time.
Why do they show like this:
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Aren't there any Christmas themed hats this Winter Bash 2022?
I went over to the Winter Bash site to see what other beauties can be unlocked. It surprised me that there aren't any Christmas themed hats, for instance a Santa cap or reindeer antlers.
Maybe the ...
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Winter Bash 2022 hat names explained
What follows is a list of the 'etymology' for the Winter Bash 2022 hats. Everything about the naming (whether related to Stack Exchange mechanics, memes, or anything else that isn't obvious to most ...
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This year's Winter Bash violates the Geneva Conventions (no, really)
I know the title of this post sounds like a bit of an exaggeration - but it's not; the 'Lifesaver' hat awarded in this year's bash which includes the red cross emblem violates Article 53 of the Geneva ...
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Hats not appearing in top bar
I can only guess this is a bug.
No matter which hat I wear in the profile page, it is not showing in the top menu. I just changed my profile picture, which is reflected correctly on first refresh of ...
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Unable to adjust my hat as hat control is hidden
I can't adjust the position of my hat as the hat control overflow is hidden.
I'm using Safari v16.1 running on macOS.
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The Tourist hat trigger description is incomplete
The Tourist hat description states:
Yet apparently reading the Tour badge is not enough to get the Tourist hat if you already have the Informed badge. This was confirmed by staff member Catija in a ...
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The Oldie Astley List of Rolls
... Also known as "How many rolls must a staff member put down Before you call him a man" (obviously, the answer is 42).
As for tradition (1, 2, 3 ) the pony went once again to visit their ...
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Need to scroll to find yourself in leaderboard in mobile version
If I go to the Winter Bash leaderboard on the mobile version, I don't come on the top:
But the same if I do on the desktop; I come on the top with my leaderboard position. Above the number one ...
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Hat description to be updated as "Winter Bash" instead of "WinterBash"
As per this answer, the Winter Bash event is called "Winter Bash", with a space.
In plain text:
The official name of the event has always been Winter Bash, with a space, and that's how it's ...
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Cumulative Winter Bash hat data
Is there anywhere that data could be found regarding Winter Bash hats, such as how many of each hat have been earned, when such hats were first earned, and the amount of each hat earned per site? I ...
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I earned 2cool4skool on a site I have not visited
On stackoverflow.com, I went into dark-mode in chase of the 2cool4skool hat. I didn't get it there, but I did on pt.stackoverflow.
com, which I have not visited prior to getting this hat.
Seems to be ...
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Legend icons in Winter Bash profile dialog are too responsive
There are some icons in the legend of the Winter Bash profile dialog:
I assume they're meant to remain square at all times, yet they don't (and look suboptimal) at narrow screen sizes, especially the ...
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Show off your hats! (2022 edition)
Winter / Summer Bash 2022 just started today, and within the first hour, nearly a million hats have been awarded across the network.
Let's show them off here! As with the 2021 edition, I'll copy the ...
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Close icon in Winter Bash profile dialog not visible when hovering
When hovering over the Close button in the top right of the Winter/Summer Bash 2022 dialog on your profile, it becomes entirely white:
It would be better if the close icon × would remain visible.
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