I just noticed on  that the  user wears the 'Ooh, Shiny!' secret hat on Meta Stack Exchange. This is not the case on other sites, like  and a handful of others I checked.    It probably earned this hat      due to the  script, or when an OP confirmed a duplicate   but why does it wear a hat, and only here?
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Why does ? And more importantly: why does she not wear them?    Please, show some goddamn holiday spirit! Can we get Community to wear her hats, either randomly or through popular vote?
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What exactly is a hat?  I have seen a lot of people arguing the significance of hats and the limited edition hats. I know the hats are sort of linked to the Winterbash stuff, but what exactly is a hat, what does it do, how do I get one?  Is there a full list of hats?
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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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When I loaded the review page (in Stack Overflow, though I have no specific reason to think it is related) I got a weird hat in the upper left hand corner.    See the hat in the upper left hand corner?  That's belonging to user # .  His profile page also has the hat in a ... weird ... location, but not this weird.    I'm guessing this is due to the not-loaded image for the avatar (adblock blocks Facebook avatars for me often)?  It also causes the toolbar notification to show his link unless I'm hovering over something else.  It also changes the location of the gray box to the upper left hand corner when I hover over the hat (and hovering over the white box does nothing).  It's definitely him (or any not-loaded avatar perhaps), once he fell off the last 6 reviewers it stopped appearing.
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Last night when I was researching on an issue I can to a post which one of the answers had a Avatar Icon with text Moderator inside it. I cannot find that post today.  Considering that person reputation was lower than 50, I wonder if he could be a real moderator.  Do we have a guideline which explicitly ban this?(That is A none moderator uses the moderator icon?   I think no web site needs fake moderators.  The suggested(Duplicate) link says impersonation is OK. I disagree. A moderator should not be impersonated by anyone as people rely on them more than others..
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Today I got my 11th hat but I have not received the hat 011, whose requirement is to get 11 hats, I found it a bit strange since it has been a few hours since I got the 11th and I have not been given.  Are there any extra requirements for this hat? Or is it a bug? Or all the hats have to get them in the same place?
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I just took a look at meta today and noticed something weird in the meta privileges. If you look at the meta privilege list, you can see that at . I know that there is no meta for meta, and the link they give you in the privilege page leads you to meta.stackexchange.com, right where you started. Why do they have this privilege? I have a feeling that this is a bad recursive joke. You must be  member of meta to get the privilege of being a member of meta! :)
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While doing some flagging (yes, I'm a little bit addicted) I stumbled upon the user . At first the case seemed clear, Spammer, but...and that's a big one, he seems to be a productive member of SU and SO (his account on SF isn't there anymore, but it's still in the Data-Dump of the explorer, not sure what happened).  He does never seem to link against StarWind-Software, except with his name and profile. He also  that he's a developer there...so...at what am I looking here? I can't really place him somewhere.
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So far, I've unlocked one of the secret hats. I'm wondering what other secret hats are out there and how to earn them?
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How does Stack Overflow auto-generate the gravatars for those users who do not upload a picture or who have not created a Gravatar icon?    Where do these random avatars come from, and how can I generate them for my own site?
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Yeah... um,  needs to go.    I can't find any way to edit the avatar, but I'm not sure that deleting the user is necessarily the next step.  Any ideas?  Link isn't very illustrative any longer - user had posted an offensive political/religious profile icon.  SU and SO mods - FYI      lock edit:  Sorry if this bruises some folks, but avatars aren't priority #1 in my mind. If an avatar generates a big administrative overhead (i.e. many complaints from many users) it'll be changed.  This isn't because anybody gets their rocks off changing avatars, it's because I'd like my Trilogy-time to result in something that enhances it, not strugging with issues that have nothing to do with the stated purpose.
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I often see users who appear as user12345 or something similar. I personally dislike this for a few reasons:    I'd prefer to know who I'm dealing with I think the quality of questioning is generally better from users who have an identity Somehow it seems like cheating... disrespectful in some intangible way.. here we all are helping each other for free, and what? You can't even be bothered to show your face?   I've read the question   and there the conclusion seems to be that we don't mind whether the identity is real or adopted.   Fair enough. My problem is with people who can't even be bothered to have an identity at all. (I understand that in some cultures, it might be seen as problematic to make community contributions on your boss's time, even if there's a net gain. Lots of the user12345 folks seem to be asking for work-related answers: even full-blown solutions.)  Coming back to my first point about wanting to know who I'm dealing with; I actually can't tell the numbered users apart. Those numbers just don't stick in the brain, so it becomes like trying to interact with the Borg. Even if people have reasons to conceal their 'passport' identity, why can't they at least be encouraged to put some minimal imagination into making up a fake?   Stack overflow has successfully gamified all sorts of things, so isn't there a way to lean on people (ever so gently) to put a little bit of effort into dumping the auto-generated name. Nag them every 5 logins? Whatever.
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I'm seeing some weird hat behavior on the iOS app.  On some answers, I'm wearing the trophy hat.        On other answers, I'm not wearing any hat at all.        And on the web, I'm wearing the taco hat.        What's going on?   App Version: 1.6.2.5 Device: iPhone 6 OS Version: Version 9.3.4 (Build 13G35)
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I happened to notice while on the Super User site that one user's picture shows him wearing a shirt with the Super User logo on it. Interested, I wanted to find out where he got it from. Looking through old questions on Meta, I found out that there used to be a shop.stackexchange.com site that sold Stack Exchange gear. Unfortunately, they no longer sell any merchandise.  Is there any site where I can purchase a Stack Exchange site shirt/hat/etc.? If not, could I create a shirt/hat/etc. myself with one of the sites' logos on it? If so, where can I locate the logos in their largest size?
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The description states:     earn 150 reputation points on three different sites (not including Stack Overflow) within 15 days.     I have 3 questions:   Does this mean that if I earn 150 reputation combined on 3 sites, eg. 100 rep on Meta Stack Exchange and 50 rep on Ask Different, I would get this badge? Does Meta Stack Exchange count? Is this being awarded now since it states 'within 15 days'?
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During Winterbash 2014, there was a hat called , which was earned by giving an answer scoring 5 or better to question that had a score of −3 or worse at the time of answering and later rose to a score of +3 or better.  I’ve already shared the . Those cases give me a great deal of confidence that this would be a challenging badge trigger that would produce good behavior with a minor tweak. Here are the Red Barons earned on other sites:    (Logan Maingi) Mathematics  (Mike Miller) Mathematics  (Hugo) English Language and Usage  (tchrist) English Language and Usage  (Mr. Shiny and New 安宇) English Language and Usage  (Darth Satan) Science Fiction and Fantasy  (DVK) Science Fiction and Fantasy  (rolfl) Code Review  (Heslacher and Hosch250) Code Review  (Edward) Code Review  (janos and Manny Meng) Code Review  (Mark Mayo, Rory Alsop and MeNoTalk) Travel      (DJClayworth) Christianity  (McMagister) Puzzling   Looking through the timelines, I’m convinced that the answerer’s votes should be excluded from the pre-answer question score calculation. Doing that would have reduced the number of Red Barons to 16 across the network. However, the cost of making a badge harder to obtain is worth the benefit of avoiding giving people an incentive to manipulate question scores¹.  To wrap up, the hat seemed to have encouraged a number of great answers and rescued some questions that would otherwise have been lost to time. My outstanding questions are:   Were there any problems on questions where people were attempting to earn the hat, but failed? (Or any other problems I didn’t observe.) If not, should we  or create a new badge? If we create a new badge, what should it be called?   I’m especially interested in feedback that counters my own bias in favor of this idea. If I’m missing any problems, I’d like to know about them now.    ¹ Several questions were downvoted, answered, edited (sometimes trivially)  and upvoted by the user who earned the hat.
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Description of the hat unlock requirement:     at least 5 flags dismissed as helpful and at most 20% of non-disputed flags declined   Does "dismissed" mean something unusual here, or is this hat not unlocking properly? I'm not sure if that means "since winter bash started" or "since your account was created": if the former, I've flagged 8 items so far today, of which 6 were marked "helpful" (the other two are still active; none have been disputed or declined). If the latter, the flag page indicates I've flagged 391 items (plus 6 for spam), of which 1 was declined (which incidentally, I assume that was by accident, given that the question was closed soon after for the reason I flagged it for), 1 was disputed (that one was legitimate), and 21 are still open. That is definitely way under 20%.  So what's up with that unlock?  edit: it appears to be the case (further edit: this has now been confirmed first-hand) that this hat unlock disregards any flags that are the flag equivalent of voting to close. I put forth that if this is intended behavior, well, it shouldn't be (if it's to equalize the playing field for over-3k-rep people, it should just also count votes-to-close. Though granted, I suppose in the scheme of things it really doesn't matter much, as it'll all go away in a couple weeks anyway. But dang it, I want to show off all the flagging I do! :p)