Hats are a really nice idea and earning one is a happy event.  Who invented the hat system?  I was wondering how they were born, and who chose their names?
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Winter Bash is always a lot of fun and makes people trek across sites and participate in communities they are not usually a part of, but how did they originate? What was the thought process behind introducing this tradition?
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I tried to write , but I couldn't find any simple explanation page to link to. I ended up garbling a home-spun description of my own with a not-terribly-helpful image from 2012.  This  puts it better than I can:     As a new user in 2015 can there please be more information about what is WinterBash. The link took me to a bunch of stick figures running around making (I think) numbers (I think its a countdown clock). It doesn't explain the event or even what a hat is. – Ian Miller Dec 4 at 2:58   All I found on Meta was dead links. For example,  was downvoted to -2 and answered with a link to an FAQ page that no longer exists.
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So with the Steam Summer Sale in full swing, I've finally taken notice of the Steam Mascots.  Judging by the latest background, the black one, at least, has a name: Cyl.  Do the other two have names as well? Are there only these three?   What's their story?
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I've always wondered this ... I recall fleeting references to the lack of a money system in TNG (something about abandoning the quest for material wealth), but was it ever explained why and how and when that came about? Is there a canonical explanation? And, what motivates them in that case -- why go to work if you're not getting paid and obviously, don't need to be paid because there's no money to buy anything? Were all the main races moneyless?
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The hat was sorting students into houses according to - what seems to be - "what's in their head".  How is that possible? In Harry's case, he spoke to the hat, but most students just sit there silently from what I remember from the books!
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I really like the hats game. But I would love to keep the hats longer then only one winter. I want to leave them in my wardrobe during summer. Last year, I collected some cool hats, and I apparently lost them during summer.  Maybe we could make a system that allows hats to last for about 2 or 3 years, so we don't have to start over each winter. Or even specify per type of hat a number of years they last? Very very rare hats could last for ever.  I asked this, simply because I love hats! :D
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I already have a PhD, but now I'm graduating with a Master's in another field from another university.  Question:  What academic robes do I wear?  I know it is normal to wear the regalia from the highest award but that seems strange in this case.
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What is done to prevent people from changing their display name to another persons', for example Jon Skeet, and then also changing their gravatar to match too?  In comments it seems there is no visible differentiator, and the differentiator in questions and answers is just reputation and badges.  This doesn't seem to be a problem for stackoverflow, but I'm just wondering what are possible safeguards against this?  EDIT: Also it doesn't even have to be deliberate, if two people just happen to choose the same display name, and they both participate in the same question/comment thread, that would be confusing right?
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I was wondering why there is not hats available on the mobile version. No hats on avatar, no hats counts, etc ..    Is it because it seems to be an ajax layer over all websites? or the same reason there is no helpful tag counts?
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Why doesn't my flair wears any of the Winter Bash caps which I wear and remains uncapped throughout?    Update: As pointed out this question about being a duplicate of  is a different question all together, where as this question is about why my flair doesn't wears the Winter Bash caps
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I always forget what this special hairstyle is called, which is shared by some characters. I'll give some examples, I think it should be clear what I mean.     Edward Elric also has this wisp(?), but I can't find a good image of it. What is it called? What does it stand for?
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I have reached the twenty hat threshold! However, I have not been awarded with The Milliner. At first I thought this could just be a case of being impatient, so I waited, but it still hasn't arrived!    Does this have something to do with my 20th hat being a secret hat? Should I just suck it up and wait until I get my 21st hat?
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The question pretty much tells it all.   I joined  today and I'm not seeing any hats in my profile. So joining any SE site after Winter-Bash starts doesn't grant me hats? I see that there may be a . Is this the case?
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I received some sort of secret hat, the "Chuck Yeager". It says that it is a secret hat. What is the point of a secret hat, besides being fun?  Also it appears that he was the .  Would anyone like to take a guess at why I have this hat?  After reviewing @Michael Hampton's profile I think I know how it is achieved ... but it is still a secret.
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I have noticed recently that people have their own skins. Not like the ones where you type in a specific nickname and it gives you a skin but where the people make their own. How do you do it?
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In my profile my hat is on the correct position, but not in the top-bar. This is new. It worked until now.    Works neither in Chrome nor in Firefox.
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It's been more than a month since I have started using . It has these users with user names in the format of "user-random number". I have observed them in some of the stack activities, most of the time asking questions.   Does the moderators create them for their own purpose. If yes what purpose do they serve?   I mean a user is free to have any user name. But it's just a hunch that such users are actually moderators. I may be wrong; just need some clarification.