I had earned the  hat but its description states that you can earn this hat posting a question/answer, or voting on December 18th     Ask, answer, or vote on December 18th   I'm at UTC+1 and today is not Dec 18th...Is this a typo or whatelse?
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I just got the  hat which states "post or vote on December 21".  Does SE have a time machine now?
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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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Is it just for me, or has the privilege to review new posts and late answers changed for everyone?  I recently started being more active in reviewing, but the rep requirement just shot up and I can not review anymore? The rep requirement has shot up to 500. Is this just for me, as a 'process", or has it been changed site wide?
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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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On English Language &amp; Usage, I noticed that even the  user has hats.    In its case, how is the hat it is wearing selected?
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I was wondering if the hats that I gained during this period will remain or I have them only during Christmas.  If it has an end, when does Winter Bash and hats period ends?
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We just noticed on the Tavern on the Meta, that hats seem to have vanished on chat.  They also seem to be gone on regular chat, and I don't see the snowflake on Meta Stack Exchange some of the time (it's randomly appearing by the looks of things then vanishing).  I usually use Vivaldi, but the same issue on Firefox (I'm on 57 or thereabouts).  I suppose we can blame load, or hats..  or is it a hat hating grinch?      Totally glitched grinched I guess
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This is the first year I've done the whole "winter bash" thing, and I was interested; how did this tradition start? Mainly, who (and why, and how) invented the idea of hats on avatars (on SE and subdomains)?? It seems like a cool idea, but it seems like the weirdest thing ever. Any clarification is appreciated!
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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?
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Post Reopened by Tim Post ♦, waiwai933   On , right above Rev. 3.  How did that happen? How did a normal user vote to reopen after Tim cast a binding reopen vote?  Note that this happened 22 hours ago as of the time of this post, and Tim was and is a member of the community team with full moderator privileges.
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The  page indicates "the hats get put back in their boxes on January 4th". Aside from the pure terror that sentence seems to invoke, I was curious of exactly when this is going to be.  I know that the hats have caused a bit of a time warp at times (for example the starred chat hats). Will this be true of the removal process as well?  Do we get our hats until 23:39 UTC Jan 4th, are they removed at the end of UTC Jan 3rd?
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Normally I would not complain about this, but given that   are based on "visiting the site" each "day" it is silly for the "day" to be based on UTC clock for all users.    I can speculate about the reason for this limitation, but I will refrain from that.  I know I am not the only one who has brought this up as an issue, but if badges are based on it, at least do the right thing and use local time.    EDIT Someone suggested that changing a user timezone creates a problem.  All times stored in the database are UTC.  If Jeff and co just do two passes for whatever logic is used for checking the badges (one for UTC - like the way it exists now, and one for local time I think that would be far more preferable.  )
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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 saw that it has been already reported that also they have earned courious badge but the badge has not been given. but their answers say that they must wait a day and the badge will be awarded.  In my case its 8/5 and it was 5/5 long time ago and I have never received a message telling that I have earned it. its just telling me that the next badge to be awarded is Curious badge.  this is my profile:
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Why are you, the ever so pink-and-fluffy SE making me hate ?   I don't hate hats. I just don't want to participate because I'm a grumpy old bahumbug kinda guy.   I don't like hating :(  Can we choose not to participate rather than having to hate ?  I am sad.
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I'm kind of wondering… why can't there be cached tag scores updated live (e.g. when one of my answers is upvoted), like there are for reputation? I'm not saying that there shouldn't be the script running nightly, but it would be nice to see my scores go up immediately when my posts are upvoted, as opposed to the excruciating wait for 4AM UTC.
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Clicking a hat in the top bar achieved hats list redirects to the profile page, opening the hats dialog and choose the hat, ready to be confirmed. Superb!  While I was still checking on my existing hats I got a new hat. In a reflex I clicked the hat in the top bar notification but... nothing happened. Well, the URL changed to http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/152859/sha-wiz-dow-ard#winter-bash-[id] but since it didn't trigger page reload the dialog did not open and I had to do that manually. (the horror!)  Can this please be fixed?