@curtise dude. brick wall. My lawyers assure me that I can only be goat if the following conditions apply: I am enrolled in VMP, or @snapster rescinds his decree of said VMP membership requirement and sufficient votes apply... NONE of which will happen (thankfully) for the foreseeable future.
I understand we're getting into a weird area here by suggesting measures like these, and I assume banning certain people is off the table, but would suggesting an ignore member feature for VMPs be off the table?
@unixrab I figured you meant it in jest, not rudeness. I can wholeheartedly disagree with you and still enjoy your banter and presence here - and I do. We're good, well I'm good.
A lot of sites allow gift memberships to be purchased by other than the recipient. Don't suppose there's a way to provide a gift VMP membership for @unixrab? I'd donate a few cents for that...
@unixrab Was referring to the receipt of a VMP gift, not any subsequent consequences such as the imposition of goat-dom; the terms of the decree would have been met ;)
@margot- Please don't swallow the cap. Each month the forum members vote for someone to be a scapegoat for the month - Someone to be blamed for every mishap and annoyance. The December goat is @lisaviolet - you'll notice a little goat "badge" next to her name in the forum.
@margot@KDemo Well, it's good to see that answer because i read it as the common sports abbreviation for Greatest Of All Time. So i was thinking it was kind of a way to create a meh-stars list.
@KDemo "Each month the forum members vote for someone to be a scapegoat for the month - Someone to be blamed for every mishap and annoyance." Uh oh. If the crew from wine.woot shows up over here, I'm screwed.
Hmm when did someone assume I had any power over goat nominations? I clearly said "if I had a vote".
I do like there being room for dissent in the forums, but I don't need to accidentally create a rule that dessenters can't be goats, whatever that means in this strange land.
@Pamtha Quick create a new thread and name it something like "I can't play now I have to shovel the snow" for the goat discussion - Dad @snapster might not read that one - either that or he will try to sell us roomba snowblowers
@chellemonkey I don't currently live where the is snow - and the few times there is 1/4 of an inch people think the world is ending, but back when I lived up in the snow belt I sure would have agreed with you!
@cengland0 I heard it. He's expressing regret at accidentally making a rule that I can't be goat unless I'm VMP. He's sorry he said it...but hasn't rescinded it.
So the goats have all been awesome. Do they have to be awesome before they take the jingly collar of office, or do they BECOME awesome because of their on the job training?
@Pamtha It is not necessary to be awesome to be the goat, even though it's been that way so far. However, becoming the goat does confer a near-mystical aura on those elected, which enhances whatever awesomeness they posess to demigod levels.
@OldCatLady@Kidsandliz@cengland0@lisaviolet I have a lot of cool ideas for what we can do with badges in the future, but unfortunately that takes development time which we are in short supply of at the moment. This is one of the ideas that might come sooner than later, so stay tuned!
Hey @lisaviolet - I just saw that brief flash in a pan where you started a new thread with a link where to take discussions about he who shall not be named… why delete it? This one is being corrupted still with conversations about he who shall not be named...
Alright, my first idea didn't get much traction, but I really think you guys are missing the point, this isn't just "pick a new goat for Jan" it's pick the first goat of 2015! Its time for a real game changer so I'm just going to list off some ideas that come to mind.
1) Along side the goat nominate a llama, the llama changes every year and is blamed for any site problems while the goat is blamed for bad deals. (No one is exempt from being llama-ed)
2) Nominate 5 goats and make them compeat bachelor style to win our hearts.
3) Get a real goat and give it the account '@therealgoat' devlope a complicated system to convert bleets into typed words, possibly speeks korean
4) Vegan options for every deal, every time you purchase the daily deal in the drop down menu that you usually select colors from add the option "vegan" and the order will be replaced by celery totaling the same mass as the product you were selling. The first person to buy the celery each day gets special flair and they get to brag about how they were cool before everyone else. I was thinking gazelle because they are both fast and herbivores.
@unixrab If you meant and own the "unixrab lame" in @unixrablame, you again have my respect. Really, I would vote for you for goat if I didn't think you want it too much. And I'm willing to accept that you don't even know you want it. But I think you do know.
@joelmw I'd be a horrible goat. How can I accept blame when I've been WARNING people almost daily... ...people would be mad at my responses that would probably be just the same one every day: "I tried to tell you...but you wouldn't listen. blah blah blah."
I like my current role anyway - I don't want to be lumped into the fold as if I am part of it. When/if meh.com begins to sell great products at great prices that it benefits me to VMP, I'll do it. I did it on woot (no membership, but I was an ardent fanboy) and I'll do it here. I like the site, the ethos, the owner, the free-for-all forums and the smart ass employees... surely good products will follow... it'll just take time. So - if you can find anywhere that I've ever hinted at being goat, show me...otherwise leave me out of it. Don't know how much clearer I can be ... I would probably not post anything for that month that I was forced to be one.... lol now there's some conflicted torturous logic... lol
@unixrab Yeah, right, how would your standard response work when someone blames you on the weather? Huh? Huh? Answer me that smart guy...I mean goaty goat poop scooper.
But... Do we have proof of this exemption? ;-)
@curtise YES! IN THE PREVIOUS GOAT THREAD!
@unixrab Nah, I read that as @snapster saying you can be goat when you get VMP... Not that you can not be goat without being VMP.
@curtise dude. brick wall. My lawyers assure me that I can only be goat if the following conditions apply: I am enrolled in VMP, or @snapster rescinds his decree of said VMP membership requirement and sufficient votes apply... NONE of which will happen (thankfully) for the foreseeable future.
I would like to vote for @unixrab because I refuse to read things within parentheses
@sp3ar
someone start a new thread...
@unixrab I will.
Man has it already been a month? What if we mix things up and spend the month of January blaming terrible deals on political taboos?
"Another speaker dock? Thanks North Korea!"
I understand we're getting into a weird area here by suggesting measures like these, and I assume banning certain people is off the table, but would suggesting an ignore member feature for VMPs be off the table?
@BillLehecka
Let's choose a good goat this time.
@JazzyJosh I think the goats chosen to this point have been pretty fantastic, but I might be biased.
@Thumperchick lol
@Thumperchick ... in a good way
@unixrab is there any other way?
@Thumperchick I dunno... I'm trying not to piss you off. ... ... ... lol... ? ;-) <-real winkie
@unixrab I figured you meant it in jest, not rudeness. I can wholeheartedly disagree with you and still enjoy your banter and presence here - and I do. We're good, well I'm good.
@Thumperchick Yay!
I vote for @unixrab anyway. :)
@kc5rbq
A lot of sites allow gift memberships to be purchased by other than the recipient. Don't suppose there's a way to provide a gift VMP membership for @unixrab? I'd donate a few cents for that...
@duodec That is a great idea.
@duodec @thumperchick
@duodec He didn't even take the 2 months free when it was offered. @unixrab is sick in the head.
@unixrab who says the recipient gets a choice? ;)
@duodec It's based on extrapolation of the @snapster decree!
@unixrab Was referring to the receipt of a VMP gift, not any subsequent consequences such as the imposition of goat-dom; the terms of the decree would have been met ;)
@duodec this reminds me of the movie Beetlejuice or Faust
I feel like a pleasantly lemon-scented not quite baby-throat sized drain cleaner cap...but what is...sniff...a goat? Please don't hit.
@margot- Please don't swallow the cap. Each month the forum members vote for someone to be a scapegoat for the month - Someone to be blamed for every mishap and annoyance. The December goat is @lisaviolet - you'll notice a little goat "badge" next to her name in the forum.
@margot @KDemo Well, it's good to see that answer because i read it as the common sports abbreviation for Greatest Of All Time. So i was thinking it was kind of a way to create a meh-stars list.
@KDemo "Each month the forum members vote for someone to be a scapegoat for the month - Someone to be blamed for every mishap and annoyance." Uh oh. If the crew from wine.woot shows up over here, I'm screwed.
@corrado You lush - you can't stack the vote in your favor by calling in reinforcements from that 'other' forum.
@corrado Muwhaaaa! Too late!
@margot @thejackalope Heres an even more in-depth explaination: https://meh.com/forum/topics/scapegoat-of-the-month--a-brief-history
@unixrab participates in the forums more than all the other goats combined. I still nominate him. :-)
@neuromancer dear sweet @neuromancer - why? why do you hate me? why do you not obey @snapster ?
@unixrab Only a fanboy would blindly obey an octopus.
Hmm when did someone assume I had any power over goat nominations? I clearly said "if I had a vote".
I do like there being room for dissent in the forums, but I don't need to accidentally create a rule that dessenters can't be goats, whatever that means in this strange land.
@snapster Uh oh, NOW we've made Dad stick his head in the room and ask what all the ruckus is. "Wasn't me!!!"
Ha, did you hear that @unixrab?
@Pamtha Quick create a new thread and name it something like "I can't play now I have to shovel the snow" for the goat discussion - Dad @snapster might not read that one - either that or he will try to sell us roomba snowblowers
@Kidsandliz I would be interested in a roomba snowblower lol
@chellemonkey I don't currently live where the is snow - and the few times there is 1/4 of an inch people think the world is ending, but back when I lived up in the snow belt I sure would have agreed with you!
@snapster you said in a stand alone sentence (and I quote) "The day Unixrab becomes VMP he can be the goat."
https://meh.com/forum/topics/we-need-a-goat-to-start-2015-off-right#549f6b610ce786f8075beccc
@cengland0 I heard it. He's expressing regret at accidentally making a rule that I can't be goat unless I'm VMP. He's sorry he said it...but hasn't rescinded it.
So the goats have all been awesome. Do they have to be awesome before they take the jingly collar of office, or do they BECOME awesome because of their on the job training?
@Pamtha It is not necessary to be awesome to be the goat, even though it's been that way so far. However, becoming the goat does confer a near-mystical aura on those elected, which enhances whatever awesomeness they posess to demigod levels.
@Pamtha Logically there should be a 'retired goat' badge for those who have served. Perhaps a south view of a northbound goat?
@OldCatLady I second this
@OldCatLady LIKE
@OldCatLady I like that idea. The icon could be a goat upside down or a dead goat.
@OldCatLady I like that idea, too.
@OldCatLady @Kidsandliz @cengland0 @lisaviolet I have a lot of cool ideas for what we can do with badges in the future, but unfortunately that takes development time which we are in short supply of at the moment. This is one of the ideas that might come sooner than later, so stay tuned!
Disclaimer: no promises.
@JonT I'll take that as a promise.
@Thumperchick
@JonT There you go again. Raise up our hopes only to then dash them… and that isn't even @lisaviolet 's fault either
@JonT
Hey @lisaviolet - I just saw that brief flash in a pan where you started a new thread with a link where to take discussions about he who shall not be named… why delete it? This one is being corrupted still with conversations about he who shall not be named...
@Kidsandliz I'll try it again.
@Kidsandliz @lisaviolet
omg that's hilarious.
Alright, my first idea didn't get much traction, but I really think you guys are missing the point, this isn't just "pick a new goat for Jan" it's pick the first goat of 2015! Its time for a real game changer so I'm just going to list off some ideas that come to mind.
1) Along side the goat nominate a llama, the llama changes every year and is blamed for any site problems while the goat is blamed for bad deals. (No one is exempt from being llama-ed)
2) Nominate 5 goats and make them compeat bachelor style to win our hearts.
3) Get a real goat and give it the account '@therealgoat' devlope a complicated system to convert bleets into typed words, possibly speeks korean
4) Vegan options for every deal, every time you purchase the daily deal in the drop down menu that you usually select colors from add the option "vegan" and the order will be replaced by celery totaling the same mass as the product you were selling. The first person to buy the celery each day gets special flair and they get to brag about how they were cool before everyone else. I was thinking gazelle because they are both fast and herbivores.
@axleman1011 Meh.
@axleman1011 TL;butDidR ;-)
@neuromancer Any and all feedback is welcome :^)
@unixrab thanks, feel free to add any of your own ideas
@axleman1011 I would be totally into being a gazelle or a llama.
@axleman1011 I blame @lisaviolet for the overly complicated plan you've come up with.
@Thumperchick There we are. Blame the goat. Okee dokee artichokee.
@axleman1011 What have you been smoking? A certain vegetable?
@Kidsandliz a vegetable called "life"
This may be taking it too far, but I'm getting real close to blaming @lisaviolet for @unixrab.
@joelmw And what I mean by that is that maybe that's too much blame for any goat.
@joelmw I can handle that blame. I have Xanax.
@joelmw Really @unixrab started with @cengland0. His reign of terror has been spread across multiple terms of goathood.
@Thumperchick and multiple threads… pity the goat
@joelmw @lisaviolet there's PLENTY of unixrablame to go around... much more than any one goat can handle
@unixrab
@unixrab If you meant and own the "unixrab lame" in @unixrablame, you again have my respect. Really, I would vote for you for goat if I didn't think you want it too much. And I'm willing to accept that you don't even know you want it. But I think you do know.
@joelmw I'd be a horrible goat. How can I accept blame when I've been WARNING people almost daily... ...people would be mad at my responses that would probably be just the same one every day: "I tried to tell you...but you wouldn't listen. blah blah blah."
I like my current role anyway - I don't want to be lumped into the fold as if I am part of it. When/if meh.com begins to sell great products at great prices that it benefits me to VMP, I'll do it. I did it on woot (no membership, but I was an ardent fanboy) and I'll do it here. I like the site, the ethos, the owner, the free-for-all forums and the smart ass employees... surely good products will follow... it'll just take time. So - if you can find anywhere that I've ever hinted at being goat, show me...otherwise leave me out of it. Don't know how much clearer I can be ... I would probably not post anything for that month that I was forced to be one.... lol now there's some conflicted torturous logic... lol
@unixrab Yeah, right, how would your standard response work when someone blames you on the weather? Huh? Huh? Answer me that smart guy...I mean goaty goat poop scooper.
@unixrab
Well now you've got my vote!
@Ignorant it won't be enough thank goodness!
"*
*" I can see how the weather could be blamed for me. Grammatically, it requires no response from me; that job would fall to @weather
@unixrab All I can think right now is, ♫"My little Texas Tornado..."♪
@Thumperchick
I propose to deny him goathood but blame unixrab anyway.
@GoatXmehFuture how old is your forum name? New with the comment? LOL