Well...that happened.
16After our last run on tattoos for Ink for IRKs, the idea of a forum badge was thrown around.
As you can see from that comment chain (and all over the Ink threads) it worked out.
The red isn’t going to stick since it maybe stands out a bit more than we’d like (even though it’s one of the rarest badges in the forum now) but I think it’s pretty rad. We know you gave blood to get them done, but it was always meant to be a drop of ink, so we’ll see how it updates soon. Red is already gone and they match all other badges flat format
To be clear, all of the previous badges are still on the accounts and you can see them when you hover over the badge like so:
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Congrats? I guess…@baddestrobot, @bady, @Barney, @booogerbrain, @brainmist, @Bretterson, @cbilyak, @die13lda, @djslack, @f00l, @flourlover, @gogrrl, @gr8mick1, @Jasongb, @kalma, @khaberer, @Kidsandliz, @Kyeh, @mbersiam, @melanie413, @metaphore, @Nakome, @PHRoG, @Pony, @QueenAxolotl, @raptorgorawr, @remo28, @sammydog01, @scilynt, @TheMeerkat, @tondaanderson
/giphy dude sweet
Looks like the red has already been fixed. That might become a feature in the future, but for now, we’re back to the same format for all badges. If you hate your new bling just shoot me a message and I can revert your account back to display any other of your current badges.
So can we call ourselves the Inksters now? I feel like we need leather jackets and an opposing gang to have dance-offs with.
@khaberer nah… no body wants to see me in a dance off, I have zero coordination ability.
@khaberer I know a few sharks I can call. Given the Jets standing as the worst team in the AFC East, we can leave them out of it.
@ExtraMedium @khaberer You could maybe try snapping instead? I mean, according to this video, dancing is more powerful, but snapping is probably at least second best.
(I worry that I’ll develop a reputation here as the guy who keeps pushing Studio C sketches… but so often they’ve got something that fits…)
@khaberer the irksum inksters looking for trouble!
Sweet! I’d been hoping for that since I got mine done! I’m still waiting to figure out what I get for my newest tattoo, lol.
/giphy hella rad
I love it! Now maybe there will be fewer doubters
So Flipping cool!!!
I count 31 on the list above. Funny, I would’ve thought there were more people around here who would sell their body’s advertising space for cheap “throw it in the trash” merchandise.
[Does Miley come here under a pseudonym?]
The most amazing thing, I don’t recognize any lawyers’ names on the list.
'Scuse me. I’m not a mehmber of this club, so mehbe I don’t have any inkling about it and shouldn’t be lurking in here. But I would like a badge for being a life-time member of the Procrastinator’s Club. In fact, I meant to post this yesterday. The badge could be a broken watch.
Inksters I like that
If this were on my Wikipedia page without the context of being here, it would still all make sense:
I did notice I lost my scapegoat emeritus status, probably by asking to keep my v showing so I’d know if vmp lapses.
@djslack My dead goat is still on my list. I think maybe @ExtraMedium needs to add it back on to yours.
@djslack I put your scapegoat status back on the account. If you’d like your VMP badge back I’ll have to take the goat and ink badges off again, but that’s not a problem.
@Kidsandliz sadly, the forum is designed to always show the rarest badge you have on your account, so those who are VMP and goat, but don’t want to show the goat they lose “Scapegoat Emeritus” from the hover-text (and profile page). As I said earlier, I can put you back on any badge you are still qualified for, but it won’t show others listed in the hover-text that are of higher rarity. I don’t think the dev team would be happy about a request for us to have granular control over which image shows up along with the titles, but only because it would probably be quite a bit of work to code that and the benefit would just be based on how picky the users are.
@djslack @ExtraMedium When I hover over mine is shows the goat and VMP so I guess I am good with that. When I hover over @djslack 's his also shows the same as mine so I am not sure anything is missing from his???
When I first saw the ink one though initially I thought it was the poop one. I had to look more carefully to see that it wasn’t (likely due to how small they are).
@djslack Just set your VMP set to auto renew. Then you won’t have to worry about losing it (well unless you screw up when your credit card renews and the expiration date and security code changes).
@ExtraMedium thanks! I was assuming that was the issue.
@Kidsandliz it does auto renew but the card could always mess up and then where would I be? (In poop land, that’s where.) I’ve been paying Meh five bucks a month for almost 9 years now, I was a couple months late to the game. My card changed and I didn’t catch it in 2016 which is why my date is reset to then.
@djslack @ExtraMedium @Kidsandliz Same happened to my VMP date- credit card expired and I didn’t notice in time, so my VMP date is 2018 now when I actually started it years earlier. Very frustrating.
@ExtraMedium My member status changed when i had to renew manually. Can my prior membership status be reinstated please? Ive been a mehmber for a very long time. Thanks! And sorry for the bandwidth folks.
@kc5rbq2 Sadly, that can’t be reverted. You haven’t been a member since 2019 and we can’t even close a one-month gap (see Pony’s comment above) so you’re stuck with it saying member since June '23. But your profile does still show that your account was created back on Mar 3, 2015.
@djslack @ExtraMedium @Pony @kc5rbq2 Mine does have a legit gap. I dropped due to finances and then a friend gives it to me as a present each year.
Ha! I love it.
oooOOOOoooooOOO!
Nice! Congrats on your new icons Inksters!
As an aside, it would be cool to have an account-level setting that lets users choose which of their badges displays in threads.
@PooltoyWolf I agree, and I don’t even have any skin in the game. (that is, I have only one badge)
I’d volunteer to help fix it, but… well, I’ve worked in some code bases I’d rather not remember. I don’t know if Mediocre’s software is as bad as that, but experience has taught me I should assume it until proven otherwise.
@xobzoo Yeah, I have zero idea how much modification would be needed to implement such a feature.
I love that this came together. Good call @ExtraMedium!
I wish I’d seen it when they were red!