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How are we protecting our heads this year? With Hats!
Aye!
This awesome dude
knew how to wear hats, and so do we!
Image of Fejér Lipót from wikipedia, by user MessinaRagazza
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'Tis the season to be...
Of course we want hats!
Like Emmy, we know that wearing a hat is ideal!
Base photograph of Emmy Noether copyright Universitäts-Archiv Göttingen; found in the Oberwolfach Photo Collection.
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How are we protecting our heads this year? With Hats!
Nay!
Like this great man
we prove our theorems with our bare heads!
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Explain this winter bash task "Epiphany" (2016/17)
The task for the Epiphany hat is to vote or post on January 6th (that is Epiphany, which is part of the Christmas holidays).
This is visible before clicking on the hat. The text you ask about is ...
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'Tis the season to be...
Hats are not wanted here!
Like Emmy, we feel that being without a hat ought to be conserved!
Photograph of Emmy Noether copyright Universitäts-Archiv Göttingen; found in the Oberwolfach Photo ...
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Did I miss this year's hat discussion?
In preceding years per-site moderators were asked what their site wants. On this site, the moderators then launched a poll to base the decision on that result.
This year per-site moderators on sites ...
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Why did I win the New Hope hat for asking, answering or voting on December 18, 2015?
From Aarthi's answer on Meta Stack Exchange from a previous Winter Bash:
So, the official answer is: we over-awarded the hat so that people in Auckland / Tokyo / Shanghai / Vanuatu wouldn't have to ...
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Community user wearing hats for voting?
So I guess you are talking about the Vote Early, Vote Often and Wireless hats, whose descriptions say, respectively
cast a total of 250 votes on any seven consecutive UTC days
vote on ten ...
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List of secret hats during Winter Bash 2021
Since Winter Bash is network-wide, it is not surprising that such a list is on Meta Stack Exchange rather than here. (Also the post which you linked in the question is on Meta Stack Exchange.)
You can ...
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wears my like clockwork meta hat?
You don't earn hats on Meta, and you usually also don't get hats for things you do on Meta, unless the hat specifically says "do X on meta". Quoting myself from Why didn't (or did) I or some other ...
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Community user wearing hats for voting?
The Community user has very many votes attached, see https://math.stackexchange.com/users/-1/community?tab=topactivity
A reason for this is that certain normal votes will be transferred to the ...
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Who awards the hats?
The awarding of "hats" is a temporal activity carried out on the SE network around the change of the years, known as Winter Bash; by mid January all hats are gone. Very likely next December you can ...
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Where are the sun hats?
Well, there is a sun hat: Where in the World...
Your problem is known to the company; see for example this footnote to the Winter Bash 2015 blog:
1: As in the past, tradition defeated accuracy in the ...
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Who awards the hats?
Actually the hats are awarded on different opportunities and criteria are decided on different hats to whom the hat is to be given. The one who gives hats is Stack Exchange Site.
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Hat Overlaps with Profile
Click on the hat here
Then you will get something like this
Now you can choose the position of the hat or change the hat.
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible