What's the "scapegoat of the month"?

@mfladd

Sums it up

/giphy "jaws of hell"

@RedOak @Qwerty6811 Noooo! We need more playmates.
/giphy we want to play with you

@mtb002 The community nominates and votes for them.

@mtb002 Be overly helpful, not helpful, generally annoying, or just get on @mfladd’s radar in some inexplicable way?

@mtb002 That’s a hell of a way to encourage participation in the forums.

@ruouttaurmind Nah; if we voted for the generally annoying, then it would’ve been the bad Lisa that got the month instead of the good Lisa.

@mtb002 Despite the impression some of us manage to present, this is a community of truly exceptional individuals.

@mtb002 by asking that question…

@mtb002 They are drafted and then dragged, against their will, kicking and screaming into their month of goat hood. Protesting that you shouldn’t be “chosen” can work for a while. I got out of it for a bit over 2 years and then bang. They caught me in the goat net last month.
/image caught in goat net

@ruouttaurmind 'community of truly exceptional individuals…’ Yes, each in our own unique way. Some of those ways don’t bear close investigation.

@OldCatLady

Some of those ways don’t bear close investigation.

The same could be said about many (most?) of our elected officials.

I’d like to believe that we are, in general, better that they are, and that our elected goats have served their duties better also.

@2many2no

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@narfcake I’m the good Lisa.

@caffeineguy

You are stealing blame from @djslack?

@caffeineguy Or we could always nominate you as GoaT, and then you could blame yourself.

@mfladd

@therealjrn You’re just hoping someone steals a spotlight away from what happened last Caturday.

@narfcake For a cat-based life form, you sure are a Chatty Kathy aintcha?

@therealjrn

@f00l shit. Well then i blame @djslack that this is still not obvious… i looked up and saw the goat icon.

@caffeineguy
/giphy impostor goat

@therealjrn The hole you are digging in the goat field keeps getting deeper and deeper and deeper…

@Kidsandliz I don’t see how, it’s just been a little miscommunication.

Say…your nominee is quite a contender!

@therealjrn but apparently not enough to oust you from first place. Keep digging.
/image keep digging until you hit the Indian Ocean

@caffeineguy I think @goat might be an actual user account unrelated to the scapegoat.

@jbartus Probably. It’s like how @meh gets a bunch of random tags, usually from ticked off folks here.

@narfcake no u

@narfcake yeah exactly