I was wondering a bit after I got a Santa Lucia Hat from several different SE-pages. For getting the SL-Hat you have to vote on 15th of december, but for example I got the SL-Hat on meta, even if I created the account here on 16th of december (according to my time zone). So, what is the relevant time zone for hats? And even if the time zone is UTC, I am in UTC +1, so that should not be the answer...
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During Winter Bash, users can earn hats. But sometimes it seems that a hat was awarded even though its requirements weren't (yet) met, or vice versa.  What could be the reason for this?
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I noticed a minor issue - or does this affect the epic and legendary badge calculation?  I just open the  and noticed:  rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 26 days earned at least 200 reputation on 23 days   That is impossible. My rep was capped on 26 days but I reached 200 on only 23 days? It would make sense the other way around.
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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)
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Can you get better answers on Stack Overflow when a question is asked at a certain time of the day?  Let's say the question is asked in the morning (GMT), will it attract more attention than a question that is asked at night?   Suppose that is true: What is the best time to ask questions?  On the other hand,    How long can one expect to get relevant answers?  Is a question after (let's say) 12 hours "lost"?    The question seems to attract no more answers after a certain time, unless the question itself is that relevant that a lot of people keep it active.
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I really like how, in the winter bash, there are hats. They are pretty cool and actually encourage me to get badges, something I didn't care about before. I think there should be something like this, but all year round, to encourage people to get badges. Badges, to me, seem currently pretty useless and I never want to get any because...there is no good reason to. Hats: well, hats are just awesome
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I was viewing the  and I noticed that I've apparently only had my account for six months, which is news to me... I opened my first site account here in February of 2014.  My account is much older than this, what's causing this bug?  To add some detail... On the per-site list, it does line up the &quot;member for X&quot; text with my actual membership time on that site. For example, when I look at the Meta Stack Exchange leaderboard, it shows me as a member for 2 years, 10 months. This is expected.  Update. With some work, today, I've managed to exceed my Interpersonal Skills hat count of with my Meta Stack Exchange hat count. This has changed my account age to match my MSE account age...  Still not reflective of my actual age... but better.
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This is the first year that I pay attention to hats (I love hats!) and I wonder if I will keep my hats for next year?  Or will I start over with zero hats next year?
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Is my local time considered in the daily reputation points cap, or number of votes?
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I've searched all over meta and found  for wearing multiple hats that was . But today I saw  profile.     Is there really a way to wear two hats or is this something out the ordinary?
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There are already many questions about the epic badge and that it was assigned too late, but:  I have just received the  on  after earning 200 rep today (which incl. 2x15 for two accepted answers). However the rep listing under  states for me:  rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 41 days rep cap was exceeded on 48 days   I had been keeping an eye on those numbers so the badge came as a surprise. Is this an error? I'd really like to earn the badge ;-).  Also just to clarify: Must the rep cap be hit, i.e. must a limitation have been encountered? By this I mean you got 21 up-votes at one day (20 to get the max 200 rep + 1 to hit the limitation, which is than listed as [0] in the listing). Or is it enough to get 200 (or 200+) rep points in any combination? My listing tells me that both of these values are below 50 times. I've tried hitting the recalculate button, with no change.    Ok, I manually recounted all days where I got 200 or more rep. I actually count 50 of them, however on one I had exactly 200 which might not count for the rep cap was exceeded on number while counting for the badge. This makes 49 days. I thought the last missing one might simply be because the day isn't over, but now it is 5 min after midnight UTC and it is still just 48.    The same -2 offset happened now to me with the Legendary badge:  rep cap was reached via rep from upvotes *only* on 111 days earned at least 200 reputation on 148 days   I don't mind it at this point, but in general there should be an exact display of the days available.
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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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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've just earned the "Warm Welcome hat" and the red star on it looks like a communist symbol. I associate this symbol on this particular hat closely with many atrocities against my country: Poland, as well as Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine and many others from inside the Iron Curtain.    I hope I don't get banned by this. It's just… I was really shocked to see it this morning.     Disclaimer: text below was added by a moderator, not me  Can Stack Exchange be more mindful of the symbols used when it's just about fun?
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Some hours ago I was awarded the Good Question badge on Meta Stack Overflow:   It's a silver badge, but I didn't receive the      earn a silver badge     Seems a bug, or is it because meta badges are ignored for hats?
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Timezones... are complicated. We have full hour offsets, half hour offsets...  And time keeping isn't always accurate. So does the Hero Of Time hat assume full or half hour offsets (or literally any timezone) and how close to 7:00 at somewhere do I have to post for my hat?
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Winter Bash 2020 has started and the hats (and masks) are listed below. As always, there are only two answers: one for the secret hats, and one for the regular hats. The secret hat list will be updated as we learn them. Please, only edit the secret hat answer with definitive and correct triggers. This is not the place to post guesses. Winter Bash is a fun event, so secret hat triggers should be put behind spoilers (use the &gt;! markup) in order to not to spoil the fun for those users who want to discover the triggers themselves. If you'd like to discuss Winter Bash, hats or just have a question about it please come over to the . Please keep the comments here clean. As always, comments are not meant for discussion, conversation, &quot;I just got hat X&quot;, etc. use the  for that (comments may be cleaned up without further notice). Here are the hats from previous years:
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I edited this post today  on stack overflow. I was approved of the edit, so I waited a few minutes to get my  badge because this answer was posted on Jan 28 '10 at 1:06, but it never came. I have read multiple articles on meta that there have been bugs with this badge, but they have been about winning it multiple times (), or earning it then losing it (). Am I missing something here?