Questions tagged [winter-bash-2018]
For questions about the Winter Bash (holiday hats) to celebrate the end of the year 2018.
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Thanks SE, love the swag!
In the Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way, SE sent me the following:
I just wanted to say thank you.
I already put the stickers on my travel trunks and had to wash the mug three times by now. Unfortunately, ...
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I did not receive any email asking for my address for the "Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way" swag - what to do? [closed]
I've participated in the Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way, here's my answer.
The question/contest has been closed at the end of January, and the participants have apparently been emailed with a question ...
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Will the Winter Bash 2018 site be available all year?
I didn't know when Winter Bash would end, so when my hat disappeared, I thought that the site would be closed, too. But it was still open, so I could add a new animated knitting to my answer. Will it ...
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Announcing Our Amazing 2018 Stuff-A-Way! [closed]
Mar 5 UPDATE: This order is proving a bit more laborious to expedite than our vendor had originally anticipated, so these boxes haven't been shipped out yet. Anyone who filled in a form should receive ...
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Does accepting your own answer count for earning the "Rep Hunter" hat?
If I asked 5 questions and answered them all, and then accepted them, would I have earned the Rep Hunter hat?
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What will happen when Winter Bash is over?
Tomorrow (January 2nd, 2019) is the day that Winter Bash will be gone.
So I am thinking: Will there be some sort of a final ranking page anywhere?
It would be nice so I don't need to keep going to the ...
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Why is the Winter Bash chatroom not linked to this site?
The Winter Bash chatroom is not linked to a particular site, so there are no hats available for getting a star on New Year's Eve.
In my opinion, it should be linked to this site (i.e., Meta Stack ...
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What does the trigger for Glasses With A Number On Top actually mean?
The description of the Glasses With A Number On Top says
post a message in chat within ±12 hours of the UTC New Year's begin that gets starred
But what does this mean?
±12 hours could mean around 12 ...
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When does the 2018 Winter Bash end?
On the blog we are told "that on January 2 all hats will be taken back to storage."
Does that mean the Winter Bash includes the second or is the first the last day?
Times help clear up ambiguity: ...
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The Winter Bash 2018 Leaderboard is redirecting to an error page [closed]
Clicking on the leaderboard link redirects to https://winterbash2018.stackexchange.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/leaderboard (instead of just /leaderboard). That page says,
I just wanted to see if ...
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Clicking "Let us pick" button removes the hat from the top right corner
Feels like a regression of an old bug we had in 2015:
Hat on profile disappears after acknowledging an earned badge
"Congratulations! Thanks to your efforts you have earned" box appears on ...
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Make a "gif" knitting
How do all of you make a gif knit with the winter bash knitting website?
I saw a couple of gifs from this question
here
And I thought maybe I could make mine into one. But I'm not too sure how?
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No Silencium hat for 15 days
I have got a question on Stack Overflow in Russian created Dec 12, 2018, 19:58 MSK — and it still has no answers for 15 days.
Is it a bug?
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What is the additonal criteria to fullfill for Red Baron Hat?
On Movies & TV SE, I qualified for Red Baron Hat twice but never got it. From Winter Bash page:
answer a question scoring -3 or lower; the question eventually becomes 3+ and your answer becomes ...
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Why no Solstice hat?
There appears to be no Solstice hat this year (unless it's super secret). I haven't seen anyone with a Solstice hat, and it's not on the Winter Bash 2018 Hat list.
Where in the World hats that looked ...
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